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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
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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
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On 13 November 1822, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Mount, by whom he had two daughters:
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- 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
)
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