RARE "British Barrister" Frederick Leveson-Gower Hand Written Letter For Sale
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RARE "British Barrister" Frederick Leveson-Gower Hand Written Letter:
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Up for sale RARE! "British Barrister" Frederick Leveson-Gower Hand Written Letter.
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Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower DL,
JP (3 May 1819 – 30 May 1907), styled The
Honourable from birth, was a British
barrister and Liberal politician. He was commonly known under
his second forename and was sometimes nicknamed Freddy Leveson.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. 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. Leveson-Gower entered the British House of Commons for Derby with the support of
his uncle William Cavendish, 6th Duke of
Devonshire in May 1847. However, the election was overturned on
petition in July and Leveson-Gower did not stand in the by-election. From 1851,
he worked as précis writer in the Foreign
Office until the following year, when by the influence of his 2nd Duke of Sutherland, he stood
successfully as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-upon-Trent, a seat
he lost in the general election of 1857.[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. Having
travelled to India
in 1850, Leveson-Gower, after his return, married Lady Margaret Compton,
daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of
Northampton, on 1 June 1851. She died only a few years later. Their
only son George sat later in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
for North West
Staffordshire and also for Stoke-upon-Trent. In 1856,
Leveson-Gower joined his brother Granville on a special
mission to Russia.[4] He died in 1907, aged 88, having been in his later life a friend of William Ewart Gladstone and his wife