Friday, 7 February 2014
411 Granville Leveson-Gower
Constituency : Reigate 1863-5
Granville came in at Reigate in February 1863 to replace William Monson who had succeeded to a peerage. His opponent William Wilkinson, a Liberal MP for Lambeth 1852-7 claimed bribery had won the election.
Granville was related to Lord Granville.
He was returned in 1865 but his election was declared void and the constituency suspended until 1885.
Granville stood in the Surrey East by-election of 1871. He was forced to fight a defensive campaign about the foreign policy of Gladstone and Granville. His address "said the Government had kept England going into that ( the American Civil War ), and had healed up the breach which existed with our American cousins , and in doing this the Government had laid the foundations for a lasting peace between two of the greatest nations of the world ".
He died in 1895 aged 57. His son Henry became an England cricket captain.
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