Gower, Granville George Leveson-, 1815-1891, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman

1837-1840 member of parliament for Morpeth; 1840-1841 under-secretary, the Foreign Office; 1841-1846 member of parliament for Lichfield; 1846 earldom, entered the House of Lords and made privy councillor; 1846-1848 master of the buckhounds; 1847-1851 paymaster-general; 1848 vice-president, the Board of Trade; 1851-1852 foreign secretary; 1852-1854, 1855-1858 and 1859-1866 lord president of the council; 1854-1855 chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; 1856 ambassador-extraordinary to Russia (coronation of Alexander II); 1856-1871 chancellor, the University of London; 1857 knighthood; 1868-1870 colonial secretary; 1870-1874 and 1880-1885 foreign secretary.

Epithet: statesman

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