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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland

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on 11 April 1912. After her death in 1943, he married Clare Josephine O'Brian (1903–1998) on 1 July 1944. Sutherland died in 1963, aged 74 and without issue. His titles were divided according to their patents: the Earldom of Sutherland and Lordship of Strathnaver passed to his niece,
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and served on the British Military Mission to Belgium from 1914 to 1915. From 1915 to 1917, he commanded the Motor Flotilla sailing between Egypt and the Adriatic Sea. He was awarded the
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Sutherland succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1913 and took his seat in the
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between 1892 and 1913, was a British courtier, patron of the film industry and
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from 1910 to 1912. From 1914, he was honorary colonel of the same battalion.
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Lords High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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from 1935 to 1936. As a noted patron of the British film industry, the
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Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1913
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George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland
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Sutherland served in the regular army as a lieutenant in the
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in 1921 and then served in the Conservative governments of
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Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland
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Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland
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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland
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Index

His Grace
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PC

Under-Secretary of State for Air
George V
Bonar Law
Stanley Baldwin
The Lord Gorell
William Leach
Paymaster General
George V
Stanley Baldwin
The Earl of Onslow
Under-Secretary of State for War
George V
Stanley Baldwin
The Earl of Onslow
The Earl De La Warr
Cliveden
Buckinghamshire
British
Conservative
Lady Eileen Butler
Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland
Lady Millicent St Clair-Erskine
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PC
Conservative
Leveson-Gower family

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