W.G.G.Leveson-Gower

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• Title: Portrait of W.G.G.Leveson-Gower
• Date: 1918
• Catalogue number: Parliamentary Archives, LEG/2/2/3
• Description:

  William George Gresham Leveson-Gower was appointed as a clerk in the House of Lords in 1908. He was killed by a shell on 9th October 1918, after only a short period of active service in France with the Grenadier Guards. His name is carved on the House of Lords War Memorial panels in the Royal Gallery.

  Leveson-Gower was a friend of Robert Neale Menteith Bailey, a clerk in the House of Commons, who was also killed whilst serving in the First World War.