Lord Ronald Gower

Lord Ronald Gower

Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (2 August 1845 – 9 March 1916) was a British aristocrat and Liberal politician.

Biography

The youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle, he was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Sutherland from 1867-1874, and was succeeded as MP by his nephew Cromartie, Marquess of Stafford (the elder surviving son of his eldest brother the 3rd Duke of Sutherland).

A sculptor, he also published a number of works on the fine arts. He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at Stratford-on-Avon.

He never married. Gower was the model for Lord Henry Wotton in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. He adopted the journalist Frank Hird.citation |first=H. Montgomery |last=Hyde |title=The Love That Dared not Speak its Name |page=156 |year=1970 |publisher=Little, Brown] "Gower may be seen, but not Hird." —Oscar Wilde

References

External links

* [http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Gowe_R.htm Biography at Centre for Whistler Studies]
* [http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biog2/gowe1.html Website suggesting link to Oscar Wilde]


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