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. Russia took advantage of the situation to denounce the Black Sea clauses of the Treaty of Paris, and Lord Granville’s protest was ineffectual. [2] Lord Granville failed to realize in time the importance of the Angra Pequeña question in 1883-1884, and he was forced, somewhat ignominiously, to yield to Bismarck over it. Lady Sophia Castelia Mary Leveson-Gower (25 February 1870 – 22 March 1934), married Hugh Morrison on 16 August 1892. [2], In the House of Lords he distinguished himself as a Free Trader, and Lord John Russell made him Master of the Buckhounds (1846). Whether in Egypt, Afghanistan or equatorial and south-west Africa, British foreign policy was dominated by suavity rather than by the strength which commands respect. His tact was invaluable to the government in carrying the Irish Church and Land Bills through the House of Lords. Granville was appointed Foreign Secretary for the second time in July 1870 after the death of Lord Clarendon. His tact was invaluable to the government in carrying the Irish Church and Land Bills through the House of Lords. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. 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[2] (See also: The Great Game). ], the permanent under-secretary for foreign affairs, that not a cloud obscured the prospect of peace. The paper’s influence grew under his editorship. [citation needed], Lord Granville's name is mainly associated with his career as foreign secretary (1870–1874 and 1880–1885). 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.[10]. His Gladstonian foreign policy based on patience, peace, and no alliances kept Britain free from European wars. 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. (H. 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They had two children: Marjorie Morrison (15 December 1910 – 1992), married Lt.-Col. Scrope Egerton on 16 January 1933. Granville, now an established Liberal leader, was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. His tact was invaluable to the government in carrying the Irish Church and Land Bills through the House of Lords. He became Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1848, and took a prominent part in promoting the Great Exhibition of 1851. He also held shares in the Lilleshall Company. 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." [2], 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. CH.) 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.Shannon, Gladstone (vol 2, 1999) pp 75, 113-14. Griffiths'Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain Samuel Griffiths 1873 Reprinted David & Charles 1967. [citation needed], Lord Granville's name is mainly associated with his career as foreign secretary (1870–1874 and 1880–1885). 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.

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