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'''Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville''' [[Military Cross|MC]] (6 December 1918 – 31 October 1996) was a British soldier, banker, peer, and landowner, a member of the [[House of Lords]] from 1953 until his death.

He was [[laird]] of [[North Uist]] from 1960 and [[Lord Lieutenant of the Western Isles|Lord Lieutenant]] of the [[Western Isles]] from 1983 to 1993.<ref name=BP>''[[Burke's Peerage]]'', volume 2 (London: Burke's, 2003), p. 1639</ref>

==Early life==
The son of Vice-Admiral [[William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville]], and his wife [[Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville|Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon]], a daughter of [[Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]], he was educated at [[Eton College]].<ref name=BP/> Known formally as Lord Leveson until 1953, he was commissioned into the [[Coldstream Guards]] and saw active service during the [[Second World War]], in which he was twice wounded and [[mentioned in despatches]]. Rising to the rank of Major, he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] in 1945.<ref name=BP/>

==Later career==
After the war, Lord Leveson joined [[Coutts|Coutts & Co.]], a private bank.<ref name=BP/>

On 25 June 1953, he succeeded his father as [[Earl Granville]] (created 1833), Viscount Granville (1814), and Baron Leveson of Stone (1814), giving him a seat in the House of Lords.<ref name=BP/>

In 1958, Granville married Doon Aileen Plunket, daughter of Brindsley Sheridan Bushe Plunket and granddaughter of [[William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket]]. Her mother was Aileen Sibell Mary Guinness, a granddaughter of [[Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh]]. They had three children:<ref name=BP/>
*[[Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville|Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower]], later 6th Earl Granville (born 1959)
*Lady Marcia Rose Aileen Leveson-Gower (1961–2005)
*Niall James Leveson-Gower (born 1963)

In 1960, shortly after the birth of his first child, Granville bought the island of [[North Uist]] in the [[Outer Hebrides]] from the [[Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton|Duke of Hamilton]], becoming its [[laird]]. Settling there, he built himself a new house, Callernish, near [[Lochmaddy]], designed by the architect [[Beckett baronets|Sir Martyn Beckett]].
<ref>Bill Lawson, ''North Uist in History and Legend'' (Birlinn, 2004), p. 208</ref>

In 1974 Granville was appointed as a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of [[Inverness-shire]]<ref name=BP/> and was Vice-[[Lord-Lieutenant]] of the Western Isles between January 1976<ref>''[[The Edinburgh Gazette]]'', Issue 19810, 23 January 1976, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/19810/page/79 p. 79]</ref> and 1983, then Lord-Lieutenant from 1983<ref>''The Edinburgh Gazette'', Issue 21312, 29 April 1983, 
[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/21312/page/667 p. 667]</ref> to December 1993, when he was succeeded by [[John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil|Viscount Dunrossil]].<ref>''The Edinburgh Gazette'', Issue 23501, 24 December 1993, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/23501/page/3745 p. 3745]</ref>

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==External links==
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