5. Arg., on a bend az., 3 bucks' heads cabossed or. Stanley.
6. Gu., 2 lions passant arg. Strange.
7. Barry of 10, arg. and gu., a lion rampant or, on a canton sa., a fess arg. Brandon.
8. Quarterly;
1st and 4th, France.
2nd and 3rd, England; being the arms of England, borne by right of descent from the Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VII.
Coronet.—That of a Duke.
[Jewel. Defense of the Apologie, etc. London, 1576.]
George Granville Leveson-Gower (born 9th January 1758, died 19th July 1833) was the son of Granville, Marquis of Stafford. Lord George was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Gower during his father's lifetime, and succeeded to the Marquisate in 1803.
The Marquis was a Member of the Privy Council and a Knight of the Garter, and in 1833 he was created Duke of Sutherland. The Earldom of Sutherland came into the Gower family by right of Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland in her own right, who married the Duke in 1785. It is said to be the most ancient Earldom in North Britain, and to date back as far as 1057. The Duke's successors all used a quartering on their coat-of-arms for this ancient Earldom, namely, gu., 3 mullets or, within a bordure of the last, charged with a double tressure, flory counterflory of the field.