1-273-584 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1882. Granville George Leveson-Gower (1815-1891), 2nd Earl Granville held various ministerial posts in Liberal governments of the mid to late 19th century. In 1848 as vice-president of the Board of Trade he was prominent in promoting the Great Exhibition of 1851. He is best remembered for his two spells as Foreign Secretary in Gladstone's administrations, holding the post in 1870-1874 and 1880-1885. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).