George Leveson Gower Granville, 2d Earl Granville
1815–91
Statesman and diplomat. Under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1840–1. MP for Morpeth, 1837–40; for Lichfield, 1841–6; deputy lieutenant for Shropshire, 1846; vice-president, Board of Trade, 1848–51. Vice-president of the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition. FRS 1853.
Source
Burke’s peerage 1999, Men and women of the time 1856.
Bibliography
Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.
Men and women of the time: The men of the time in 1852 or sketches of living notables. 2d edition, 1853. 3d edition, 1856. 4th edition, 1857. New edition, 1865. 7th edition, 1868. 8th edition, 1872. 9th edition, 1875. 10th edition, 1879. 11th edition, 1884. 12th edition, 1887. 13th edition, 1891. 14th edition, 1895. Men and women of the time: a dictionary. 15th edition. By Victor G. Plarr. 1899. London: David Bogue [and others]. 1852–99.
