گرانڤل لڤسون-گاور، إرل گرانڤل الثاني
The Right Honourable The Earl Granville KG PC FRS | |
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Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
في المنصب 26 December 1851 – 27 February 1852 | |
العاهل | الملكة ڤكتوريا |
رئيس الوزراء | Lord John Russell |
سبقه | The Viscount Palmerston |
خلفه | The Earl of Malmesbury |
في المنصب 6 July 1870 – 21 February 1874 | |
العاهل | الملكة ڤكتوريا |
رئيس الوزراء | William Ewart Gladstone |
سبقه | The Earl of Clarendon |
خلفه | The Earl of Derby |
في المنصب 28 April 1880 – 24 June 1885 | |
العاهل | الملكة ڤكتوريا |
رئيس الوزراء | William Ewart Gladstone |
سبقه | The Marquess of Salisbury |
خلفه | The Marquess of Salisbury |
Lord President of the Council | |
في المنصب 28 December 1852 – 12 June 1854 | |
العاهل | الملكة ڤكتوريا |
رئيس الوزراء | The Earl of Aberdeen |
سبقه | The Earl of Lonsdale |
خلفه | Lord John Russell |
في المنصب 8 February 1855 – 26 February 1858 | |
العاهل | الملكة ڤكتوريا |
رئيس الوزراء | The Viscount Palmerston |
سبقه | Lord John Russell |
خلفه | The Marquess of Salisbury |
في المنصب 18 June 1859 –ستة July 1866 | |
العاهل | الملكة ڤكتوريا |
رئيس الوزراء |
The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell |
سبقه | The Marquess of Salisbury |
خلفه | The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos |
تفاصيل شخصية | |
وُلِد |
لندن |
11 مايو1815
توفي | 31 مارس 1891 لندن |
(عن عمر 75 عاماً)
القومية | بريطاني |
الحزب | Liberal |
الزوج | (1) Mary Louise von Dalberg (1813–1860) (2) Castila Rosalind Campbell (died 1938) |
الأنجال |
Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville |
الوالدان |
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville Lady Harriet Cavendish |
الجامعة الأم | Christ Church, Oxford |
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, KG, PC, FRS (11 May 1815 – 31 March 1891), styled Lord Leveson until 1846, was a British Liberal statesman from the Leveson-Gower family.
In a political career spanning over 50 years, he was thrice Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, led the Liberal Party in the House of Lords for almost 30 years and was joint Leader of the Liberal Party between 1875 and 1880. He is best known for his pacific stewardship of Britain's external relations, 1870–74 and 1880–85, in co-operation with his best friend, Prime Minister Gladstone. His foreign policy was based on patience, peace, and no alliances; it kept Britain free from European wars and improved relations with the United States after the strain during the American Civil War.
الخلفية والتعليم
Leveson-Gower was born in London, the eldest son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, by Lady Harriet Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. His father was a younger son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, by his third wife; an elder son by the second wife (a daughter of the 1st Duke of Bridgwater) became the 2nd Marquess of Stafford, and his marriage with the daughter and heiress of the 18th Earl of Sutherland (Countess of Sutherland in her own right) led to the merging of the Gower and Stafford titles in that of the Dukes of Sutherland (created 1833), who represent the elder branch of the family. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
العمل السياسي
Leveson-Gower went to Paris for a short time under his father, and in 1836 was returned to parliament in the Whig interest for Morpeth. For a short time he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Lord Melbourne's ministry. From 1841 until his father's death in 1846, when he succeeded to the title, he sat for Lichfield.
In the House of Lords he distinguished himself as a Free Trader, and Lord John Russell made him Master of the Buckhounds (1846). He became Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1848, and took a prominent part in promoting the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the latter year, having already been admitted to the cabinet, he for about two months at the first of the year succeeded Palmerston as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until Russell's defeat in 1852; and when Lord Aberdeen formed his government at the end of the year, he became first Lord President of the Council, and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1854). Under Lord Palmerston (1855) he was again president of the council.
His interest in education (a subject associated with this office) led to his election (1856) as chancellor of the University of London, a post he held for thirty-five years; and he was a prominent champion of the movement for the admission of women, and also of the teaching of modern languages.
From 1855 Lord Granville led the Liberals in the Upper House, both in office, and, after Palmerston's resignation in 1858, in opposition. He went in 1856 as head of the British mission to the tsar's coronation in Moscow. In June 1859 the Queen, embarrassed by the rival ambitions of Palmerston and Russell, sent for him to form a ministry, but he was unable to do so, and Palmerston again became prime minister, with Russell as foreign secretary and Granville once again as president of the council.
He received an honorary degree from Cambridge University in 1864. He retained his office when, on Palmerston's death in 1865, Lord Russell (now a peer) became prime minister and took over the leadership in the House of Lords. Granville, now an established Liberal leader, was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. As Lord Warden, he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers on 23 April 1866.
العمل الصناعي
Lord Granville owned coal and ironstone mines at Stoke-on-Trent and was the principal shareholder of the Shelton Iron & Steel Co In 1873 the company operatedثمانية blast furnaces and 97 puddling furnaces. He also held shares in the Lilleshall Company.
السياسة الخارجية
During the American Civil War, Granville was non-interventionist along with the majority of Palmerston's cabinet. His memorandum against intervention in September 1862 drew Prime Minister Palmerston's attention. The document proved to be a strong reason why Palmerston refused to intervene, and why Britain's relations with the North remained basically stable throughout the rest of the conflict despite tensions. From 1866 to 1868 he was in opposition, but in December 1868 he became Colonial Secretary in Gladstone's first ministry. His tact was invaluable to the government in carrying the Irish Church and Land Bills through the House of Lords. On 27 June 1870, on Lord Clarendon's death, he became foreign secretary. With war clouds gathering in Europe, Granville worked to authorise preliminary talks to settle American disputes and in appointing the British High Commission to sail to the United States and negotiate the most comprehensive treaty of the nineteenth century in Anglo-American relations with an American commission in Washington.[]
Lord Granville's name is mainly associated with his career as foreign secretary (1870–1874 and 1880–1885). His Gladstonian foreign policy based on patience, peace, and no alliances kept Britain free from European wars. It brought better relations with the United States, and it was innovative in supporting Gladstone's wish to settlement British-American fisheries and Civil War disputes over the Confederate cruisers built in Britain, like the Alabama, through international arbitration in 1872. For example, the long-standing San Juan Island Water Boundary Dispute in Puget Sound, which had been left ambiguous in the Oregon Treaty of 1846 to salve relations and get a treaty sorting out the primary differences, was arbitrated by the German Emperor also in 1872. In putting British-American relations up to the world as a model for how to resolve disputes peacefully, Granville helped create a breakthrough in international relations.
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 broke out within a few days of Lord Granville's quoting in the House of Lords (11 July 1870) the opinion of the permanent under-secretary (Edmund Hammond) that "he had never known so great a lull in foreign affairs." Russia took advantage of the situation to denounce the Black Sea clauses of the Treaty of Paris, and Lord Granville's protest was ineffectual. In 1871 an intermediate zone between Asiatic Russia and Afghanistan was agreed on between him and Shuvalov; but in 1873 Russia took possession of the Khanate of Khiva, within the neutral zone, and Lord Granville had to accept the aggression (See also: The Great Game).
When the Conservatives came into power in 1874, his part for the next six years was to criticise Disraeli's "spirited" foreign policy, and to defend his own more pliant methods. He returned to the foreign office in 1880, only to find an anti-British spirit developing in German policy which the temporising methods of the Liberal leaders were generally powerless to deal with.
Lord Granville failed to realise in time the importance of the Angra Pequena question in 1883–1884, and he was forced, somewhat ignominiously, to yield to Bismarck over it. Finally, when Gladstone took up Home Rule for Ireland, Lord Granville, whose mind was similarly receptive to new ideas, adhered to his chief (1886), and gave way to Lord Rosebery when the latter was preferred to the foreign office; the Liberals had now realised that they had lost ground in the country by Lord Granville's occupancy of the post. He went into Colonial Office service for six months, and in July 1886 retired from public life.
العائلة
Lord Granville married Lady Acton (Marie Louise Pelline de Dalberg), daughter of Emmerich Joseph de Dalberg, widow of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, Bt, and mother of the historian Lord Acton, in 1840. She died in 1860.
He was engaged in 1864 to an envoy and former spy from the Confederate States of America, Rose O'Neal Greenhow; but shortly thereafter, in returning to the Confederacy, she drowned off Wilmington, North Carolina, when her rowboat overturned as she was escaping a US blockade ship.
He married, as his second wife, Castila Rosalind Campbell on 26 September 1865; their children were:
- Lady Victoria Alberta Leveson-Gower (14 April 1867 – 11 February 1953), married Harold Russell (son of Lord Arthur John Edward Russell) onثمانية September 1896. They had three children:
- Elizabeth Frances Russell (6 July 1899 – 1986)
- Rachel Georgiana Russell (28 January 1903 – 1 December 1995)
- Anthony Arthur Russell (2 October 1904 –سبعة April 1978)
- Lady Sophia Castelia Mary Leveson-Gower (25 February 1870 – 22 March 1934), married Hugh Morrison on 16 August 1892. They had two children:
- John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale (16 December 1906 – 26 May 1996), married The Honorable Margaret Smith on 16 October 1928. They had four children.
- Marjorie Morrison (15 December 1910 – 1992), married Lt.-Col. Scrope Egerton on 16 January 1933. They had one daughter:
- Susan Alexandra Egerton (born 1936)
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville (4 March 1872 – 21 July 1939), married Nina Baring on 27 September 1900.
- Lady Susan Katherine Leveson-Gower (21 August 1876 –سبعة May 1878), died at the age of twenty-one months old.
- Vice-Admiral William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville (11 July 1880 – 25 June 1953), married Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon on 24 May 1916. They had two children.
وفاته
Lord Granville died in London on 31 March 1891, succeeded in the title by his son, the 3rd Earl.
ذكراه
- Granville was the name of the present Canadian city of Vancouver from 1870 until its incorporation in 1886. Granville Street is a major north-south thoroughfare in the city.
- Granville is also the name of a suburb of Sydney. It was named in 1880.
- Granville Road, Granville Square and Granville Circuit in Hong Kong are named after him.
انظر أيضاً
- Timeline of British diplomatic history
المراجع
- ^ نطقب:Cite DNB
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "Granville, Granville George (Leveson-Gower), Earl (GRNL864GG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Army List.
- ^ http://www.thepotteries.org/geography/granville.htm
- ^ Griffiths'Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain Samuel Griffiths 1873 Reprinted David & Charles 1967
- ^ http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Lilleshall_Iron_and_Steel_Co
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Howard Jones (1997). . U of Nebraska Press. p. 151.
- ^ Shannon 1999, pp. 75, 113–14.
- ^ Shannon 1999, ch. 9.
- ^ Granville: From Forest to Factory, John Watson (ed.), 1992, Granville Historical Society.
- ^ Yanne, Andrew; Heller, Gillis (2009). Signs of a Colonial Era. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN .
- Bibliography
- Chamberlain, Muriel E. "Gower, Granville George Leveson-, second Earl Granville (1815–1891)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 20 Feb 2012
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Edmond George. The life of Granville George Leveson Gower: second earl Granville (2 vol 1905) full text online
- Shannon, Richard (1999). Gladstone. II, 1865-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN . OCLC 9971485.
- The Gladstone-Granville Correspondence ed. by Agatha Ramm, (2 vol, 1952, 1962)
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وصلات خارجية
مشاع الفهم فيه ميديا متعلقة بموضوع Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville. |
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Granville
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پرلمان المملكة المتحدة | ||
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سبقه Edward Howard |
Member of Parliament for Morpeth 1837–1840 |
تبعه Edward Howard |
سبقه Sir George Anson Lord Alfred Paget |
Member of Parliament for Lichfield 1841–1846 مع: Lord Alfred Paget |
تبعه Hon. Edward Lloyd-Mostyn Lord Alfred Paget |
مناصب سياسية | ||
سبقه Hon. William Fox-Strangways |
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1840–1841 |
تبعه The Viscount Canning |
سبقه The Earl of Rosslyn |
Master of the Buckhounds 1846 |
تبعه The Earl of Bessborough |
سبقه Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Paymaster-General 1848–1852 |
تبعه The Lord Stanley of Alderley |
سبقه Sir George Clerk, Bt |
Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1848–1852 |
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سبقه The Viscount Palmerston |
Foreign Secretary 1851–1852 |
تبعه The Earl of Malmesbury |
سبقه The Earl of Lonsdale |
Lord President of the Council 1852–1854 |
تبعه Lord John Russell |
سبقه Edward Strutt |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1854–1855 |
تبعه The Earl of Harrowby |
سبقه Lord John Russell |
Lord President of the Council 1855–1858 |
تبعه The 2nd Marquess of Salisbury |
سبقه The Earl of Aberdeen |
Leader of the House of Lords 1855–1858 |
تبعه The Earl of Derby |
سبقه The Earl of Derby |
Leader of the House of Lords 1859–1865 |
تبعه The Earl Russell |
سبقه The 2nd Marquess of Salisbury |
Lord President of the Council 1859–1866 |
تبعه The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos |
سبقه The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos |
Secretary of State for the Colonies 1868–1870 |
تبعه The Earl of Kimberley |
سبقه The Earl of Clarendon |
Foreign Secretary 1870–1874 |
تبعه The Earl of Derby |
سبقه The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
Foreign Secretary 1880–1885 |
تبعه The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
سبقه Sir Frederick Stanley |
Secretary of State for the Colonies 1886 |
تبعه Hon. Edward Stanhope |
مناصب أكاديمية | ||
سبقه The Earl of Burlington |
Chancellor of the University of London 1856–1891 |
تبعه The Earl of Derby |
مناصب حزبية | ||
سبقه The Marquess of Lansdowne |
Leader of the Whigs in the House of Lords 1855–1859 |
Party merged with Peelites, Radicals and Independent Irish Party to form British Liberal party |
حزب جديد |
Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords 1859–1865 |
تبعه The Earl Russell |
سبقه The Earl Russell |
Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords 1868–1891 |
تبعه The Earl of Kimberley |
سبقه William Ewart Gladstone |
Leader of the British Liberal Party 1875–1880 مع Marquess of Hartington |
تبعه William Ewart Gladstone |
ألقاب فخرية. | ||
سبقه The Viscount Palmerston |
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1865–1891 |
تبعه William Henry Smith |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
سبقه Granville Leveson-Gower |
Earl Granville 2nd creation 1846–1891 |
تبعه Granville Leveson-Gower |
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