1888 - 1963 (74 years)
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| Name |
George Granville (5th Duke of Sutherland) Sutherland-Leveson-Gower |
| Birth |
29 Aug 1888 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1 Feb 1963 |
| Person ID |
I62069 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
5 Sep 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Styled Earl Gower until 1892 and Marquess of Stafford between 1892 and 1913, he was a British courtier, patron of the film industry and Conservative party politician from the Leveson-Gower family. He held minor office in the Conservative administration of Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin in the 1920s and was later Lord Steward of the Household from 1935 to 1936. As a noted patron of the British film industry, the Sutherland Trophy, awarded by the British Film Institute, is named in his honour.
Sutherland died in 1963, aged 74 and without issue. His titles were divided according to their patents: the Earldom of Sutherland and Lordship of Strathnaver passed to his niece, Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland, only daughter of Lord Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, while the remainder of his titles passed to the heir male, a distant relative, the Earl of Ellesmere.
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d. 27 Jun 1913, Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland