, by
Thomas Lawrence The second creation came in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1833 when the noted diplomat
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Viscount Granville, was made
Earl Granville and
Baron Leveson, of Stone Park in the County of Stafford. He had already been created
Viscount Granville, of Stone Park in the County of Stafford, in 1815. Leveson-Gower was the son of
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, by his third wife,
Susanna. He was the younger half-brother of
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, and the uncle of
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere. He was also a great-great-nephew of the aforementioned Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville. Hence, the 1833 creation of the earldom of Granville was a revival of the title created in 1715. Lord Granville was succeeded by his son, the second Earl. He was a prominent
Liberal politician and served three times as
Foreign Secretary. His son, the third Earl, was also a diplomat and notably served as
Ambassador to Belgium from 1928 to 1933. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Earl. He was a
vice-admiral in the
Royal Navy and also served as
Governor of Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1952. Lord Granville married
Lady Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon, second surviving daughter of
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and elder sister of
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, wife of
George VI. , the titles are held by his grandson, the sixth Earl, who succeeded his father in 1996. The Hon.
Frederick Leveson-Gower, younger son of the first Earl, was Member of Parliament for Derby, Stoke-upon-Trent and Bodmin. His son
George Leveson-Gower was also a Member of Parliament. The family seat is Callernish House, near
Lochmaddy,
North Uist. ==Carteret baronets, of Melesches (1645)==