Duke of Sutherland

Dukedom of Sutherland
Arms of Egerton, Dukes of Sutherland: Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable
Creation date14 January 1833
Created byKing William IV
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderGeorge Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford
Present holderFrancis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland
Heir apparentJames Granville Egerton, Marquess of Stafford
Remainder tothe 1st Duke's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titlesMarquess of Stafford
Earl Gower
Earl of Ellesmere
Viscount Trentham
Viscount Brackley
Baron Gower
Seat(s)Mertoun House
Former seat(s)Lilleshall Hall
Trentham Hall
Dunrobin Castle
Cliveden
Stafford House
George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, by Thomas Phillips
John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, by Allan Warren

Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the dukes of Sutherland one of the richest landowning families in the United Kingdom. The title remained in the Leveson-Gower family until the death of the 5th Duke of Sutherland in 1963, when it passed to the 5th Earl of Ellesmere from the Egerton family.

The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Sutherland are Marquess of Stafford (created 1786), Earl Gower (1746), Earl of Ellesmere, of Ellesmere in the County of Shropshire (1846), Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the County of Stafford (1746), Viscount Brackley, of Brackley in the County of Northampton (1846), and Baron Gower, of Sittenham in the County of York (1703). The marquessate of Stafford, the earldom of Gower and the viscountcy of Trentham are in the Peerage of Great Britain, the dukedom, the earldom of Ellesmere and the viscountcy of Brackley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and the barony of Gower in the Peerage of England. The Duke is also a Baronet, of Sittenham in the County of York, a title created in the Baronetage of England in 1620.[1] Between 1839 and 1963 the Dukes also held the titles of Lord Strathnaver and Earl of Sutherland, both in the Peerage of Scotland. The Scottish titles came into the family through the marriage of the first Duke to Elizabeth Sutherland, 19th Countess of Sutherland.


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