Baptist Leveson-Gower
Baptist Leveson-Gower (c. 1703–1782) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34 years from 1727 to 1761.
Leveson-Gower was the fourth son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Baron Gower, MP, and his wife Lady Catherine Manners, daughter of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland. [1] He entered Westminster School in May 1717, aged 13 and was admitted at St. John’s College, Cambridge on 22 April 1720, aged 16. [2]
At the 1727 British general election Leveson-Gower was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament at both Amersham and Newcastle-Under-Lyme, and chose to sit for Newcastle-under-Lyme on his family’s interest. He voted consistently against the Government. He was returned for Newcastle-under-Lyme in a contest at the 1734 British general election and unopposed at the 1741 British general election. In December 1744 his brother, Lord Gower, joined the Administration, and he was appointed a Lord of Trade in 1745. He was returned again in 1747 and resigned his office in June 1749. He became a member of the Duke of Bedford’s circle and in 1751 he split from Lord Gower and went into opposition with Bedford. [1]
Leveson-Gower was returned at the 1754 British general election and was classed as a member of the Bedford group, then in opposition. He did not stand in 1761.[3]
Leveson-Gower died unmarried on 4 August 1782. He was the brother of of Hon. Thomas and William Leveson-Gower.
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Parliament of Great Britain | ||
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| Preceded by Thomas Chapman The 2nd Viscount Fermanagh | Member of Parliament for Amersham 1727–1728 With: Montague Garrard Drake | Succeeded by Montague Garrard Drake Thomas Lutwyche |
| Preceded by Sir Walter Bagot Thomas Lutwyche | Member of Parliament for Newcastle-Under-Lyme 1727–1761 With: John Ward 1727-1734 John Lawton 1734-1740 Randle Wilbraham 1740-1747 Viscount Parker 1747-1754 John Waldegrave 1754-1761 | Succeeded by Henry Vernon John Waldegrave |
