* 1721 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician ( d. 1803 )

* Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1859 – 1865

* Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1868 – 1891

Granville was named in 1880, after the British Colonial Secretary, the Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville.

In 1880 Parramatta Junction was renamed to Granville, after the British Colonial Secretary, Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville.

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

* October 26 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician ( b. 1721 )

* August 4 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician ( d. 1803 )

* Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville ( née the Lady Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish ; called " Harryo "; 29 August 1785 – 25 November 1862 ), married the 1st Earl Granville and had issue.

* Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville ( 1815 – 1891 ), politician and Foreign Secretary

Canning struck up friendships with the then-future Lord Liverpool as well as with Granville Leveson-Gower and John Hookham Frere.

On 25 August he wrote to Granville Leveson-Gower: " The suspense is, as you may well imagine, agitating and painful in the extreme ; but I have an undiminished confidence as to the result, either by force or by treaty.

* Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower ( 19 December 1783 – 1 December 1784 )

* Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville ( 28 December 1852 – 12 June 1854 )

* April 22 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman ( d. 1763 )

* January 22 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman ( b. 1690 )

It was named for John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, who as heir to one of the eight original Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, claimed one eighth of the land granted in the charter of 1665.

The county was named for Sir George Carteret, one of the 17th century English Lords Proprietor, or for his descendant and heir John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

* John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville ( 1690 – 1763 ), diplomat and statesman

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John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, KG, PC (; 22 April 1690 – 22 January 1763 ), commonly known by his earlier title as Lord Carteret, was a British statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763 ; effectively leader of the country when Spencer Compton was Prime Minister.

The Countess Granville died on 7 October 1745, leaving one daughter Sophia, who married William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

* John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville ( 17 June 1751 – 2 January 1763 )

* 1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman ( d. 1701 )

* The Royal Colony of North Carolina establishes a new county from the eastern portion of Granville County and names it Bute County for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who had recently resigned his post as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

* August 29 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman ( d. 1701 )

* August 22 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman ( b. 1628 )

Home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres from the Earl of Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area.

The Orange County county seat of Hillsborough was founded in 1754 on land where the Great Indian Trading Path crossed the Eno River and was first owned, surveyed, and mapped by William Churton ( a surveyor for Earl Granville ).

Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville KG, PC FRS ( 11 May 1815 – 31 March 1891 ), styled Lord Leveson until 1846, was a British Liberal statesman.

His father was a younger son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, by his third wife ; an elder son by the second wife ( a daughter of the 1st Duke of Bridgwater ) became the 2nd Marquess of Stafford, and his marriage with the daughter and heiress of the 18th Earl of Sutherland ( Countess of Sutherland in her own right ) led to the merging of the Gower and Stafford titles in that of the Dukes of Sutherland ( created 1833 ), who represent the elder branch of the family.

* Chamberlain, Muriel E. " Gower, Granville George Leveson -, second Earl Granville ( 1815 – 1891 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 20 Feb 2012

The life of Granville George Leveson Gower: second earl Granville ( 2 vol 1905 ) full text online

* Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower ( 1721 – 1803 ) ( created Marquess of Stafford in 1786 )

He was the seventh son of Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower JP DL FSA, by his wife The Hon Sophia Leveson Gower LJStJ ( née Leigh ).

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford PC ( 4 August 1721 – 26 October 1803 ), known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British politician.

As for the former days of the last Trentham Hall built in the 1830s, William White wrote 1851: " Trentham Hall is the principal residence of the Most Noble George Granville Leveson Gower, Duke of Sutherland, Marquess of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, and Hereditary Sheriff of Sutherland.

John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower PC ( 1675 – 1709 ) was the son of Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet and his wife Jane Granville.

George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC ( 9 January 1758 – 19 July 1833 ), known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786 to 1803 and as The Marquess of Stafford from 1803 to 1833, was a British politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts.

George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland KG ( 8 August 1786 – 22 February 1861 ), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower between 1803 and 1833 and Marquess of Stafford in 1833, was a British peer, who had been a Whig M. P ..

George Granville William Sutherland Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland KG FRS ( 19 December 1828 – 22 September 1892 ), styled Viscount Trentham until 1833, Earl Gower in 1833 and Marquess of Stafford between 1833 and 1861, was a British politician.

George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland KT, PC ( 29 August 1888 – 1 February 1963 ), styled Earl Gower until 1892 and Marquess of Stafford between 1892 and 1913, was a British courtier, patron of the film industry and Conservative politician.