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.
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 heen 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]
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.
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 heen 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]