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6 unusual facts about George Sutherland


Albert Rollit

His second wife was Mary, dowager Duchess of Sutherland.

Dunrobin Castle

Between 1835 and 1850, Sir Charles Barry remodelled the castle in the Scottish Baronial style for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland.

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

He was President of the Mont Cenis Railway Company which built the first Fell railway and operated it from 1868-1871 to provide a temporary route over the Alps for rail passengers from Calais to Brindisi until the completion of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

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.

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

In 1876 Chaplin married Lady Florence, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland.

Lady Helena Gibbs

George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland


Social Security Act

The arguments opposed to the Social Security Act (articulated by justices Butler, McReynolds, and Sutherland in their opinions) were that the social security act went beyond the powers that were granted to the federal government in the Constitution.


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