Constituency Dates
Staffordshire 29 Dec. 1720 – 13 Dec. 1756
Family and Education
b. c. 1696, 2nd s. of John, 1st Baron Gower and bro. of Hon. Baptist Leveson Gower. m. 26 May 1730, Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Bt., M.P., of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, 1da.
biography text

William Leveson Gower was classed in Dupplin’s list of 1754 as a member of the Bedford group, then in opposition. In May 1756 he had ‘a stroke of palsy ... in the House of Commons’,1Theo. Lindsey to Lord Huntingdon, 25 May 1756, HMC Hastings, iii. 117. and died 13 Dec.

Author
J.B.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Notes
  • 1. Theo. Lindsey to Lord Huntingdon, 25 May 1756, HMC Hastings, iii. 117.