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GOWER, VISCOUNT GRANVILLE. 



GRANVILLE LEVISON GOWER, Viscount Granmlle, of Stone-Park, 

 Staffordshire, and a Privy Counsellor; lorn October 12, 1773, mar- 

 ried December 24, 1809, Harriet, second daughter of the late Duke 

 of Devonshire, by whom he has issue, 1st, Susan, b. October 25, 

 1810; 2d, Georgiana,6. September 23, 1812 ; 3d, Granville-George, 

 b. May 11, 1815 ; and 4th, William, b. October 2, 1816. His Lord- 

 ship is youngest son of Granville-Levison, late Marquis of Stafford, 

 by Susan, daughter of Alexander Earl of Galloway. Viscount 

 Granville was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of 

 St. Petersburg!!, in 1807. [For an account of this noble family, 

 see " Gower, Marquis of Stafford/'] 



Creation. Viscount, June 15, 1815. 



Arms. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, barry of eight, Argent and Gules, over all a 

 cross flory, Sable, for Gower j 3d, Azure, three laurel leaves erect, Or, forLevi- 

 son ; 3d, Gules, three clarions, Or.* In the fess point a crescent for difference. 



Crest. On a wreath, a wolf passant, Argent, collared and chained, Or. 



Supporters. -Two wolves, Argent, collared and chained, Or, bearing on the 

 shoulder a shield charged with a clarion. 



Motto. Frangas non Flectes CYoumay break but shall not bend me.} 



JF/tr-^jjare?it.---Granville-George, his Lordship's eldest son. 



Chief Seat. Tixall, Staffordshire, 



GARDNER, VISCOUNT GARDNER. 



ALAN-LEGGE GARDNER, Viscount and Baron Gardner, of Uttox- 

 eter, in Staffordshire, and Baron. Gardner, of Uttoxeter, in Ireland; 

 born January 29, 1810, and succeeded his father, Alan-Hyde, the 

 late Viscount, Dec. 27, 1815. 



William Gardner, grandfather of the late Lord Gardner, was 

 born at Coleraine, in Ireland, March 24, 1691, and d. at Uttoxeter, 

 in Staffordshire, August 14, 1764. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel 

 in the llth regiment of dragoons, to which he, with distinguished 

 honour, rose from the rank of a Cornet ; and m. at Preston, in Lan- 

 cashire, Dec. 27, 1729, Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of 

 Valentine Farrington, of Preston aforesaid, M. D. (youngest son of 

 William Farrington, of Werden, in Lancashire), by his wife Agnes, 



* This is a correct description of the Stafford Arms : Sir E. Bridges', in. 

 Collins, and the other Peerages, describe the 3d quartering inaccurately. We 

 ' copied Collins, in our previous account of it. 



