Background
Granville was the second son and youngest child of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and his third wife Lady Susannah Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway.
Granville was the second son and youngest child of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and his third wife Lady Susannah Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway.
Granville was educated at Doctor Kyle"s school at Hammersmith, and then privately by the Revd. Nevertheless, ten years later, in 1799, he was conferred the Data Control Language.
His elder, paternal half-brother was George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland. John Chappel Woodhouse. He matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, in April 1789 but never took a degree.
Granville served as British ambassador to Russia (10 August 1804 – 28 November 1805 and 1806–1807) and France (1824–1828, 1830–1835, 1835–1841).
In 1815, he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Granville of Stone Park in the County of Stafford. In 1833, during his second stint as ambassador to France, he was created Earl Granville and also Baron Leveson of Stone Park in the County of Stafford.
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4th United Kingdom Parliament.
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.
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Granville began his career as a member of the House of Commons, representing Lichfield from 1795 to 1799, and Staffordshire for the next sixteen years.
