About Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville
Lived 1918 – 1996 (aged 77). Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville was a British politician.
Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville MC (6 December 1918 – 31 October 1996) was a British soldier, banker, peer, and landowner, a member of the House of Lords from 1953 until his death.
He was laird of North Uist from 1960 and Lord Lieutenant of the Western Isles from 1983 to 1993.
Early life The son of Vice-Admiral William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville, and his wife Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon, a daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, he was educated at Eton College.
In 1974 Granville was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Inverness-shire and 1983, then Lord-Lieutenant from 1983 to December 1993, when he was succeeded by Viscount Dunrossil.
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville was born on 6 December 1918.
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville died on 31 October 1996.
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville was a politician.
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville was British.
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