The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-30 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G.

We regret to announce the demise of the above distinguished
nobleman, on Friday week, at his seat, Dunrobin Castle,
in the county of Satherland. His grace had laboured under
an infirm state of health for several years; but, up to his
departure for the north, on the 2d instant, he was better than
he had been for some months ; indeed the noble duke, with his
daughter, the Countess of Surrey, dined with a large party at
the 'Marquis of Westminster's, a few days antecedent to his em-
barkation for Scotland, when he was in excellent spirits, and
appeared in better health throughout the voyage than he had
been for some time. - His grace landed at Dunrobin, after a pas-
sage of sixty-one hours, and, twelve hours after, he was seized
with the illness which terminated fatally on the above-named
day. Intelligence of the dangerous condition of the duke was
received by his son, the Marquis of Stafford, on Saturday, when
his lordship and his sister, the Countess of Surrey, set out for the
north, but, of course, arrived too late to be present when the
melancholy
.event took place. An express was despatched to
Lord Francis Leveson Gower, who, with his lady, was travelling
on the continent, and his lordship, it is surmised, has reached
Dunrobin Castle. His grace was in his 76th year, having been
horn Jan. 9, 1758. The following were his hereditary honours:
—George Granville Leveson Gower, Duke of Sutherland,
Marquis of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, Baron
Gower, of Sittenham, and a Baronet, K. 8., Recorder of Staf-
ford, and (jure uxoris) High Sheriff of the County of Suther-
land, succeeded his father, Granville, the late Marquis, K.G.,
Oct. 26, 1803. The marquis was called up to the House of
Lords during the life-time of his father, and placed in his
barony of Gower of Sittenham ; married September 4, 1785,
Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland and Baroness of Strathnaver,
(in her own right,) and has issue, first, George Cranville, Earl
Gower, born August 6, 1786, married, May 28, 1823, Harriet,
third daughter of the present Earl of Carlisle; second, Char-
lotte, born June 8, 1788, married Dec. 27th' 1814, Henry, Earl
of Surrey, only son of Bernard Edward, Duke of Norfolk ' •
third, William, born June 4, 1792, and died in 1793; fourth,
William Leveson, died June 17th, 1804; fifth, Lord Francis,
born 1799, married Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. and Lady
Charlotte Greville, by whom he has a family of six children ;
sixth, Elizabeth, married Sept. 16, 1819, Richard Viscount Bel-
grave, now Earl Grosvenor.
The family of Gower has some pretensions to be considered
of Anglo-Saxon origin. The object of the creation, in Queen
Anne's time, is thus stated by Burnet:—" Finch, Gower, Gran-
ville, and young Seymour, were made Peers in 1702, to create
a majority in the Upper House, while Harvey was advanced at
the same time through private favour."
On the death of the Duke's uncle, Francis, the last Duke of
Bridgewater, in 1803, he became the heir general of that Noble-
man, and acquired the whole income of the Bridgewater Canal
and the Worseley estate for life, which lattegis entailed on his
youngest son, Lord Francis Leveson Gower. Thus, by the
Stafford, the Sutherland, and the Bridgewater possessions united,
his Grace was regarded as enjoying one of the largest incomes
of Europe—report affirmed that it exceeded £300,000 per annum.
The Duke expended that income nobly and munificently: From
the late Duke of Bridgewater, and by his own extensive pur-
chases, his Grace possessed a superb collection of paintings,
ancient and modern, which, during a certain portion of the year
he was accustomed to open to the public, at his late residence in
Cleveland-row. Subsequently to his occupation of Stafford-
house many pictures have been removed thither; but the Bridge-
water part of the collection remains in Cleveland-row.
When, after the decease of the late Duke of York, it had been
deemed advisable to dispose of the palatial residence erected for
his Royal Highness in the Green-park, we believe there was not
an individual capable of forming an opinion on the subject, who
did not rejoice at its falling into the possession of its late noble
owner. The purchase-money' of the mansion was 75,000 guineas ;
but it must be borne in mina that its interior was then, and yet
remains incomplete. The Duke of Sutherland did not survive
his elevation to a ducal coronet more than six months. He
supported the present administration, and his proxy was given
in favour of the Lord Chancellor's Local Courts' Bill.

LONDON GAZETTE.—FaIDAY, JULY 26.

BANRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Jervis, Truro, Cornwall, innkeeper.

BANKRUPTS.
Henry Lee, Down-street, Piccadilly, and Motcomb-street, Bel-
grave-square, saddler, and Little Windmill-street, victualler.
Charles Friend, Munster-street, Regent's-park, milkman.
James Calder Stewart, Torrington-square, merchant.
James Sudell Troutbeck and William Thompson Clough, Darry
Lever, Lancashire, manufacturing-chemist.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Teasdale and Co., John-street, Adelphi, coal-merchants.—ll. C.
Price and Co., Bristol, ironmongers.—J. Smith and J. A. Sodo. Mac -
clesfield, silk-dyers.—C. Hicks and Sons, Wansted Mountfitchet,
Essex, maltsters.—Ellis and Simpson, Shelton, Staffordshire, engra-
vers.—F. and F. G. Kile, Oxford, bookbinders.—B. 0. Johnson and
Butcher, Cheltenham, silk-mercers.—H. Evans and W. Marlon,
Birmingham, hatters.—D. Dickson, S. Stevens, and J. Surkitt, Wal-
lington, Surrey, calico-printers.