The title Duke of Sutherland was created for George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford, in 1833.
The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Sutherland are: Marquess of Stafford (created 1786), Earl Gower (1746), Earl of Ellesmere (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 Viscounty of Trentham are in the Peerage of Great Britain, the Dukedom, the Earldom of Ellesmere and the Viscounty of Brackley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and the Barony of Gower in the Peerage of England.
The title united with the ancient title of Earl of Sutherland after the first Duke and his wife, the holder of the Earldom, died, and the titles were inherited by the second Duke. The titles separated at the death of the fifth Duke; the Earldom could be inherited by his granddaughter, but the Dukedom could only pass to males.
Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet, born 1605, (son of Sir Thomas Gower and Anne D'Oyley) married (1) Elizabeth Howard, (daughter of Sir William Howard of Naworth Castle and sister of the 1st Earl of Carlisle) married (2) 1631, Frances Leveson, (daughter of Sir John Leveson of Haling and Lilleshall).
Edward Gower (son of Thomas Gower and Frances Leveson) married Dorothy Wentworth, (daughter of Thomas Wentworth of Elmshall).
Sir John Leveson-Gower, 1st BaronGower, (son of William Leveson-Gower and Jane Grenville), born 7 Jan 1674/5, married Sep 1692, Catherine Manners, born 19 May 1675, (daughter of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland) who died 7 Mar 1712, London, buried 15 Mar 1712, Trentham, Staffordshire.
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