Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville

Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (born 10 September 1959) is a British peer, landowner, and artist. He was known as Lord Leveson until 1996 and was a member of the House of Lords from 1996 to 1999.

The Right Honourable The Earl Granville
Born	(1959-09-10) 10 September 1959 (age 65)
Education	University of Aberdeen
Spouse(s)	Anne Topping ​ (m. 1997)​ Florence Pearson
Children	5
Father	Granville Leveson-Gower
Relatives	William Leveson-Gower (grandfather) Rose Bowes-Lyon (grandmother)

Biography

The elder son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville, whose mother Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, was a daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a sister of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, he was educated at Eton College^[1] and from 1973 to 1976 was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II,^[2][1] who was his godmother.^[3] He then joined the University of Aberdeen to take a degree in English literature and History.^[3]

In 1960, his father bought the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides from the Duke of Hamilton,^[4] and he grew up there.^[5]

On 31 October 1996, he succeeded as Earl Granville (1833), Viscount Granville (1814), and Baron Leveson of Stone (1814), all in the peerage of the United Kingdom, at the time giving him a seat in the House of Lords.^[1] This was lost when the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force.^[6]

Granville is the resident laird of North Uist, living on the island at Callernish House, Griminish, near Lochmaddy, a house shaped like a doughnut designed in the 1960s by Sir Martyn Beckett.^[3] In 1999, a local smokehouse business came up for sale and Granville took it over, aiming to produce high quality smoked salmon and sea trout.^[5] Twenty years later, managing the Hebridean Smokehouse was reported to have been his "day job" during those years.^[3] With a passion for beachcombing, Granville has also become an artist and sculptor, inspired by flotsam and jetsam^[3] and has exhibited his work in North Uist and Edinburgh.^[7]

On 23 May 1997, Granville married Anne Topping, a daughter of Bernard Topping, and they had three children:^[1]

• Lady Rose Alice Leveson-Gower (born 1998)
• George James Leveson-Gower, Lord Leveson (born 1999)
• Lady Violet May Leveson-Gower (born 2002)

In 2021, Granville was reported to be living at Callernish with a new wife, Florence Pearson, an artist, their two young sons, a labrador trained to find ambergris, and a parrot.^[3]