Personal Life
Having travelled to India in 1850, Leveson-Gower, after his return, married Lady Margaret Compton, daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton on 1 June 1851. She died only a few years later. Their only son George sat later in the Parliament of the United Kingdom for North West Staffordshire and also for Stoke-upon-Trent. In 1856, Leveson-Gower joined his brother Granville on a special mission to Russia. He died in 1907, aged 88, having been in his later life a friend of William Ewart Gladstone and his wife.
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