GRANVILLE — GRAVES. 85 co. Midx., Harriet Elisabeth] 2d and yst. da. ol William (Ca endish), 5th Duke of Dbvonsuihk, by his first wife, Elizabeth, 2d da. of Frederick Augustus (Hebvey), 4th Karl of Bristol. He d. 8 Jan. 1846, aged 72, at 16, Brutou street, Midx. Will pr. Jau. 1846. His widow, who was b. 2D Aug. 1785, and who (on 17 Jan. 185S), became junior of the two coheirs of her br. the 6th Duke of Devonshire (and consequently coheir to a Barony of Clifford, which was cr. 1628), d. 25 Nov. 1862, aged 77, at IS, Hereford street, Park lane, Midx. Earldom 1 g. Granville George (Leveson-Gower), y Eahl Granville, &c., 1st s. and b., b. 11 May 1S15, iu J, lg^Q Great Stanhope street. Midx. ; ed. at Eton and at Ch. Viscountcy j ' Ch., Oxford ; B.A., 1839, being styled Lord LsTESOirj lr 1833-46. Attache to the Embassy at Paris, 1835-36 ; "i J M.P. for Morpeth, 1836-40, and for Lichfield, 1841-46. Under Sec. of State for Foreign affairs, 1840-41 ; sue. to the peerage, 1816 : P.C., 1846; Master of the Buckhounds, 1846-48; Vice Pres. of the Boaid of Trade, ftp., 1848-51 i Sec. of State for Foreign affairs, 1851-52, 1870-74, and 1S80-S5 ; Sec. of State for the Colonies, 1868-70, and Feb. to Aug. 1886. Lord Prfsident op the Council, 1852-54, 1S5-5-58, and 1859-66 ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1854-55 ; Ambassador Extra, to Russia for the coronation of the Emperor Alexander It, 22 July 1S56. Chancellor of the Univ. of Loudon, 1356 ; KG., 6 July 1S57 ; cr. D.C.L., Oxford, 17 June 1863, and LL.D., Cambridge, 3 June 1S64. Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1865 ; F.K.S., &c.( a ) He m. firstly, 25 July 1840, at the Spanish chapel and afterwards at Devonshire House, Piccadilly, Marie Louise Pelline, widow of Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward D'Alberq-Acton. Bart., only da. and h. of Emeric Joseph, Due D'Alberg. She d. 14 March 1860, aged 48, at Brighton. He m. secondly, 26 Sep. 1S65, at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, Castalia Rosalind, jwt da. of Walter Frederick CAMPBELL, of Islay, by his second wife, Catherine, da. of Stephen Thomas Cole. He d. after a long illness, 31 March 1891, aged 75, at 14 South Audley street, Mids. His widow, who was b. 1S47, living 1891. Earldom VI. Viscountcy nt i i V 1891. J 3. Granville George (Leveson-Gower), Earl Granville [1833], Viscount Granville of Stone Pabk [1815J, and Baron Leveson of Stone [1833], s. and h. by 2d wife ; b. 4 March 1872, at 16 Bruton street, Midx. ; styled Lord Leveson, till he sue. to the peerage 31 March 1891 ; ed. at Eton. Family Estates. — These, in 18S3, were under 2,000 acres. GRATELY. See " Lawrence op the Punjaub and of Grateley, co. Southampton," Barony (Laurence), cr. 1869. GRAVES OF GBAVESEND. BaTony p.] 7. Thomas Graves, 2d s. of Rear Admiral Thomas T 1 70 I Graves, of Thanckes, co. Cornwall, by his second wife, Elizabeth, da. of Rev. Gilbert Budgell, D.D., was b. 23 Oct. 1725, at Thanckes afsd. ; entered the Navy at an early age ; was M.P. for East Looe Jau. to Juno 1775: was in command in the American war in 1781 ; was, on the outbreak of the war with France in 1793, second under Lord Howe, and becoming an Admiral in April 1794, distinguished himself and was badly wounded in the great lie was one of the few Peers (Earl Spencer, Earl Granville, Earl of Rosebery [S.j'and the Earl of Kimberley) who followed implicitly the - (however rapidly evolved or however contradictory) r* ' Gladstone.
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