Granville Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville

Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (born 10 September 1959) is a British peer, landowner, and artist. He was known as Lord Leveson until 1996 and was a member of the House of Lords from 1996 to 1999.

Biography The elder son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville, whose mother Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, was a daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a sister of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, he was educated at Eton College who was his godmother. and he grew up there.

Granville is the resident laird of North Uist, living on the island at Callernish House, Griminish, near Lochmaddy, a house shaped like a doughnut designed in the 1960s by Sir Martyn Beckett. Twenty years later, managing the Hebridean Smokehouse was reported to have been his "day job" during those years. and has exhibited his work in North Uist and Edinburgh.

On 23 May 1997, Granville married Anne Topping, a daughter of Bernard Topping, and they had three children:

Lady Rose Alice Leveson-Gower (born 16 April 1998) George James Leveson-Gower, Baron Leveson (born 22 July 1999) Lady Violet May Leveson-Gower (born 5 August 2002)

In 2021, Granville was reported to be living at Callernish with a new wife, Florence Pearson (married in 2016), an artist, their two young sons, a labrador trained to find ambergris, and a parrot. Their sons are: The Honourable Joseph James Leveson-Gower (2014) The Honourable Patrick William Leveson-Gower (2018)