Edward Leveson-Gower

Edward Leveson-Gower
Edward Leveson-Gower
Born	8 May 1776
Died	6 December 1853 (aged 77)
Allegiance	Great Britain ; United Kingdom
Service/ branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1791?1821
Rank	Rear Admiral
Commands held	HMS Prompte ; HMS Castor ; HMS Pomone ; HMS Shannon ; HMS Elizabeth ;
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars ; Napoleonic Wars ;
Relations	John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (grandfather) ; Admiral John Leveson-Gower (father) ; Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (half-uncle) ; George Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth (uncle) ;

Rear-Admiral Edward Leveson-Gower (8 May 1776 ? 6 December 1853) was a British naval officer, the son of Admiral The Hon. John Leveson-Gower and Frances Boscawen. ^[1]

Naval and political career [ edit ]

Leveson-Gower entered the Navy in 1791, ^[1] and was promoted to lieutenant on 19 March 1793. ^[2] He took command of the sixth-rate prize frigate Prompte , when he was made post-captain on 1 June 1795, ^[2] commanding her only until 6 February 1796. ^[3] He commanded the frigate Castor from December 1798, ^[4] until appointed to Pomone in January 1801. ^[3] In her he took part in the capture of Carrere on 3 August 1801, and the destruction of Bravoure and the recapture of Success on 2 September 1801, ^[5] before she struck a rock off St Aubin's Bay and sank on 23 September 1801.

Leveson-Gower was returned as the Member of Parliament for Truro through the influence of his uncle Viscount Falmouth ^[1] in July 1802 . ^[6]

He was given command of the frigate Shannon upon her launch in September 1803. While attached to the Channel Fleet , Shannon was lost on 10 December 1803 when she ran aground in a gale off Barfleur . Leveson-Gower was captured and spent over three years as a prisoner of war before returning to England, where he was honourably acquitted by a court martial for the loss of his ship.

He was returned for Truro in the election of November 1806 , ^[7] and for Mitchell in May 1807 by Viscount Falmouth, in the Government interest, but resigned the seat shortly afterwards, taking the Chiltern Hundreds in July. ^[1] Leveson-Gower commanded Elizabeth from 1811, and was serving in the Adriatic in 1813, when in late April, the boats of Elizabeth and Eagle attacked a convoy of seven merchant vessels off the River Po , capturing four, and driving the other three ashore. Of these one was brought off and another destroyed, while under fire from a shore battery, two schooners and three gun-boats. ^[8]

Leveson-Gower was promoted to rear admiral in 1814 ^[9] and resigned his commission in 1821.

Personal life [ edit ]

On 13 November 1822, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Mount, by whom he had two daughters: ^[10]

Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (13 April 1824 ? 4 April 1875), married Charles Patton Keele
Frances Charlotte Leveson-Gower (13 December 1825 ? 18 March 1915), married Georges-Xavier Papillon de la Ferte, Vicomte Papillon de la Ferte (grandson of Denis-Pierre-Jean Papillon de la Ferte )

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Thorne, R. G. (2013). "Leveson-Gower, Edward (1776?1853)" . History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 24 October 2013 .
^ ^a ^b Smith, David Bonner. "Edward Leveson-Gower". Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy . {{ cite web }}: Missing or empty |url= ( help )
^ ^a ^b Winfield, Rif (2005). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 . Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4 .
^ Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 . Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6 .
^ "No. 15426" . The London Gazette . 10 November 1801. pp. 1354?1355.
^ "No. 15501" . The London Gazette . 27 July 1802. p. 793.
^ "No. 15976" . The London Gazette . 18 November 1806. p. 1506.
^ "No. 16772" . The London Gazette . 11 September 1813. p. 1793.
^ "No. 16906" . The London Gazette . 7 June 1814. p. 1188.
^ Lundy, Darryl (2013). "Rear-Admiral Edward Leveson-Gower" . thepeerage.com . Retrieved 24 October 2013 .

External links [ edit ]

Hansard 1803?2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Leveson-Gower

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Leveson-Gower John Lemon	Member of Parliament for Truro 1802 ? 1807 With: John Lemon	Succeeded by John Lemon Edward Boscawen
Preceded by Sir Arthur Wellesley Henry Conyngham Montgomery	Member of Parliament for Mitchell 1807 ?1807 With: George Galway Mills	Succeeded by George Galway Mills Sir James Hall

[hipaol-1] Thorne, R. G. (2013). "Leveson-Gower, Edward (1776?1853)" . History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 24 October 2013 .

[DBS-2] Smith, David Bonner. "Edward Leveson-Gower". Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy . {{ cite web }}: Missing or empty |url= ( help )

[RifW-3] Winfield, Rif (2005). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 . Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4 .

[4] Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 . Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6 .

[5] "No. 15426" . The London Gazette . 10 November 1801. pp. 1354?1355.

[6] "No. 15501" . The London Gazette . 27 July 1802. p. 793.

[7] "No. 15976" . The London Gazette . 18 November 1806. p. 1506.

[8] "No. 16772" . The London Gazette . 11 September 1813. p. 1793.

[9] "No. 16906" . The London Gazette . 7 June 1814. p. 1188.

[thepeerage-10] Lundy, Darryl (2013). "Rear-Admiral Edward Leveson-Gower" . thepeerage.com . Retrieved 24 October 2013 .

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