RARE "British Barrister" Frederick Leveson-Gower Hand Written Letter For Sale

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Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower DL,

JP (3 May 1819 – 30 May 1907), styled The

Honourable from birth, was a British

barrister and Liberal politician. He was commonly known under

his second forename and was sometimes nicknamed Freddy Leveson.Leveson-Gower

was the second surviving son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl

Granville and his wife Lady Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish,

second daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of

Devonshire He spent his early childhood, first in his father's

residence at Wherstead,

and when his father had become ambassador in France

in 1824, at the British embassy in Paris, where he was a playmate of Henri, comte de Chambord. Aged eight, he

was sent back to England

on a school in Brighton,

after which he entered Eton College. Leveson-Gower left the latter in

1835 and was privately educated for the next two years, until he went on Christ Church, Oxford in 1837. He

graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1840 and a Master of Arts four years

later. After his Grand Tour, he was then called to the bar by

the Inner Temple

in 1845, practising in the Oxford

circuit. Leveson-Gower entered the British House of Commons for Derby with the support of

his uncle William Cavendish, 6th Duke of

Devonshire in May 1847. However, the election was overturned on

petition in July and Leveson-Gower did not stand in the by-election. From 1851,

he worked as précis writer in the Foreign

Office until the following year, when by the influence of his 2nd Duke of Sutherland, he stood

successfully as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-upon-Trent, a seat

he lost in the general election of 1857.[Two years later, he was returned for Bodmin and represented the

constituency until his retirement from politics in 1885. Leveson-Gower was a Justice of the Peace for Surrey

and served as a Deputy Lieutenant for the county. 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.[4] He died in 1907, aged 88, having been in his later life a friend of William Ewart Gladstone and his wife