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 34S SUTHERLAND. at Paris (at a most important and critical period), being recalled, Sep. 1 702, after the imprisonment of the French Royal family; L. Lieut, of Sutherlandabire, 17P4— 1831 i Col. of the Staffordshire Vol. Cavalry, 1791--1800. He was sum. to Pari. v.p. 25 Feb. 1799. in his father's Barony [1703] as Baron Cower ok Stittknham. Joint Postmaster Oen., 1799— l f-Cl : U I.ient. of Staffordshire, 1S0<) — 1801 : sue. his maternal uncle, the last Duke of Bridgewater, March 1803, in Considerable estates, including the well known " Bridgewater canal," and sue., a few mouths later, his father, 26 Oct. 1803, as MARQUESS OF STAFFORD, Ode. ; High Steward of Stafford, 1804; was one of the prime leaders iu the attack on the Aldington administration, 1804, adhering to Lord Grenville iu (he separation between him mid Pitt ; el. and inv. KG.. 22 March 1S06, being hist. March 1S07. He now retired from polities devoting himself to the improvement of his vast estates and the patronage of art,(") becoming President < .f the British Institution, Sec At the end of bis life and after having been, for eleven vears, enfeebled by n stroke of pura'ysis, he was cr. 28 Jan. 1S33, DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.^) He d. a tew uionUm later at Dimrnbin Castle, 5 and was bur. 19 July 1883, with his wife's ancestors, at Dornoch, aged 75 ( c ) Will pr. Oct. 1S33. Dukedom [U.K.] 2 ami George Granville (Levesos-Goweb, II 1833 altcrmirds Sitiikiii.and-Lkyesiin Oowkh), Di ke ok SlTHKHl.AND, Ac., also KaiII. OK Suthk.ki.and [S.J, 1st s. and h ,() b. 8 Aug. Earldom [S.] 1786, in London, and bap. at St. Maryleboue ; generally known 'V IS'^O iis * 'SCOfXT Thkntham till 1808, when he was ttylcd Karl AA. IBSV. Gowkr till 1833. being ttgled Marqikss of Stafford, from Jan. to July 1S33 ; ed. at Harrow, ami at Ch. Ch., Oxford ; B.A. 1S06; If, A. 1810; cr. D.C.L. 15 June 1841; M.P. for St. Mawes, 1S0S-12 ; for Newcastle-under-I.yne. 1S12-I5, and for Staffordshire, 1815-20 ; was sum. to Pari, v.p. 22 Nov. 1826. iu his father's Barony [1703] as Baron OOWIE OF Stittf.nha.m ; sue. his father 19 July 1833, as Dl'KF. i)F Sl'TH KKI.AM ). ka. ; High Steward of Stafford, 1833 ; a trustee of the Nat. gallery of pictures, 1S35 ; me, his mother, 29.1 an. 1839, as EAUL OF SUTHERLAND [S.J soon after which he, by royal lie. 12 May 1841, took the name of Sutherland before that of Leresou Oover. L. -Lieut, of Salop, 1839-45 : K.G. 11 March 1S41 ; a trustee of the Brit, museum, 1841 ; eommisar. for the fine arts, 1841. Hem. 28 May 1823,( u )in Devonshire House, Piccadilly (spec, lie.) Harriet Elizabeth Georgians, 3d da of George (Howard), 6th Karl ok Caiiuslk, by Georgiana Dorothy, 1st da. of William (Cavendish), 5th Dike of Devonshire. He d. at Trentham Hall, CO Stafford, 28 Feb. and was bur. 9 March 1861, at Trenthaiu, aged 74. ( f ) His widow, who was 4. 21 May 1806, was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria'.*;) on her accession, 1S37 to 1841, and again 1848-52, 1S35-5S and 1859-61, {>! Charles Greville calls him {Memoirs) "a leviathan of wealth." The collection of pictures he inherited from the Duke of Bridgewater called " the Stafford Gallery " and sometimes " the Bridgewater Gallery, was perhaps, unrivalled, anil he was among the first of such owners, who allowed a London public access thereto. ( b ) The title chosen (on a suggestion, it was said, of the Princess Augusta) was very objectionable, being that of a Dukedom of Sutherland heritable in tail male, which at any devolution may become separate from the Earldom of Sutherland, a dignity heritable by heirs of line. ( c ) He was a Liberal, supporting the Catholic emancipation and the Reform Bill, but his ill health hindered any political success. His portrait "after W. Owen, 1811," is engraved in " Doyle" : other portraits of him exist, by Romney and Phillips, also two colossal statues by Chantrey, one at Dvtnvobtn and the other at Trentham. f d ) His yr. and only surv. br. Francis, inherited, on his father's death in 1833, the Egerton estates, pictures, &c. under the will of bis grfat uncle, the Duke of Bridge- water, took the name of Egerton, and was cr. in 1846, Earl of Ellesmere. (°) " He had previously been debarred from matrimony by a romantic attachment to Louise, the unfortunate Queen of Prussia, but the union with Lady Harriett Howard proTed one of affection." [Nat. Biogr.] 0 " Not particularly distinguished by personal qualities of the kind usually called great, he was yet fully equal to the duties of bis dignified station." [Ann. Key. fur 1861.] His portrait "'after E. Desmaisons," is engraved in " Doyle," (8) See vol. v. p. 210, note "c," sub " Manchester," for a list of these Ladies.