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4 unusual facts about Duke of Sutherland


Bowling, West Dunbartonshire

Later owners included the Duke of Sutherland and the Scott family of the shipbuilders Scott and Sons.

Chelgate

It was also unusually visible during the negotiations between the Duke of Sutherland and the National Galleries of Scotland over the £100 million sale of two Titians on loan to the Galleries, with Terence Fane-Saunders acting as spokesman for the Duke.

Duke of Sutherland

William Gower, youngest son of Sir William the fourth Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Ludlow.

John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland (1915–2000), already 5th Earl of Ellesmere, great-great-grandson of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (previously Lord Francis Leveson-Gower), third son of the 1st Duke, died without issue


Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere

On the extinction of the senior line of the Dukedom of Sutherland in 1963, his great-great-grandson, the fifth Earl, succeeded as 6th Duke of Sutherland.

Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour

From 1901 Balfour lived at Fisher's Hill House, a large home which he had built by Lutyens in Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, also living in the rural hamlet by 1911 were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) who married into his wider family and the Duke of Sutherland.

St John's, Woking

In 1911 also living in the rural hamlet were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) and the Duke of Sutherland.


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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland

In 1871 the Duke of Sutherland sent a wild cat with a badly injured foreleg trapped in Sutherlandshire to the first Crystal Palace Cat Show held in July and organized by Harrison Weir.

Samuel Alcock

Over two hundred guests attended and they danced to the Duke of Sutherland's Quadrille Band.