Leveson-Gower was the second surviving son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville and his wife Lady Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish, second daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. He spent his early childhood, first in his father"s residence at Wherstead, and when his father had become ambassador in France in 1824, at the British embassy in Paris, where he was a playmate of Henri, comte de Chambord.
Christ Church; Eton College.
He was commonly known under his second surname and was sometimes nicknamed Freddy Leveson. Aged eight, he was sent back to England on a school in Brighton, after which he entered Eton College. Leveson-Gower left the latter in 1835 and was privately educated for the next two years, until he went on Christ Church, Oxford in 1837.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1840 and a Master of Arts four years later.
After his Grand Tour, he was then called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1845, practising in the Oxford circuit. However, the election was overturned on petition in July and Leveson-Gower did not stand in the by-election.
Two years later, he was returned for Bodmin and represented the constituency until his retirement from politics in 1885. Leveson-Gower was a Justice of the Peace for Surrey and served as a Deputy Lieutenant for the county.
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