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.
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[1] and from 1973 to 1976 was Page of HonourtoQueen Elizabeth II,[2][1] who was his godmother.[3] He then joined the University of Aberdeen to take a degree in English literature and History.[3]
In 1960, his father bought the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides from the Duke of Hamilton,[4] and he grew up there.[5]
On 31 October 1996, he succeeded as Earl Granville (1833), Viscount Granville (1814), and Baron Leveson of Stone (1814), all in the peerage of the United Kingdom, at the time giving him a seat in the House of Lords.[1] This was lost when the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force.[6]
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.[3] In 1999, a local smokehouse business came up for sale and Granville took it over, aiming to produce high quality smoked salmon and sea trout.[5] Twenty years later, managing the Hebridean Smokehouse was reported to have heen his "day job" during those years.[3] With a passion for beachcombing, Granville has also become an artist and sculptor, inspired by flotsam and jetsam[3] and has exhibited his work in North Uist and Edinburgh.[7]
On 23 May 1997, Granville married Anne Topping, a daughter of Bernard Topping, and they had three children:[1]
In 2021, Granville was reported to be living at Callernish with a new wife, Florence Pearson, an artist, their two young sons, a labrador trained to find ambergris, and a parrot.[3]
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| Preceded by | Earl Granville 2nd creation 1996– |
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