
Charlie Thomas
Group Head, Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, U.K
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Group Head, Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, U.K

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The second Earl inherited the title from his father John LEVESON-GOWER (1694-1754), 1st Earl (created 1746). Granville LEVESON-GOWER was married three times: First Elizabeth FAZAKERLEY (died 1746). Secondly Lady Louisa EGERTON (died 1761). Thirdly in 1768 Lady Susanna STEWART (1742-1805) daughter of Alexander STEWART, 6th Earl Galloway. Granville in 1786 was created Marquess of Stafford. The impaled arms of LEVESON-GOWER and STEWART and the Earl's coronet, suggest that the engraving took place in the period 1768-1786.
The blazon: quarterly of four – 1,4: barry of eight or and gules, overall a cross flory sable (Gower). 2,3: azure, three laurel leaves or (Leveson). – impaling – or, a fess chequy argent and azure, overall a bend engrailed gules within a tressure flory counterflory of the last (Stewart).