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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	He was born at the family's London residence Stafford House (now Lancaster House) in [[St James's]], the youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle. He was ~~and~~ educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>		He was born at the family's London residence Stafford House (now Lancaster House) in [[St James's]], 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 College\|Eton]] and at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>

	He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].		He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].

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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	He was born at the family's London residence Stafford House (now Lancaster House) in [[St James's]], the youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle. He was and educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and at Trinity College, [[Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>		He was born at the family's London residence Stafford House (now Lancaster House) in [[St James's]], the youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle. He was and educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>

	He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].		He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].

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	[[File:Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower by Henry Scott ('Harry') Tuke.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of Lord Ronald Gower by [[Henry Scott Tuke]], 1897]]		[[File:Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower by Henry Scott ('Harry') Tuke.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of Lord Ronald Gower by [[Henry Scott Tuke]], 1897]]
	'''Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower~~''' (1845–1916;~~ pronounced loóssŏn gór, IPA ['lus''ə''n 'gɔ''r'']~~<ref>~~''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'', Oxford University Press, 1971</ref>), known as ''' Lord Ronald Gower''', was a Scottish aristocrat, [[Liberal]] politician, sculptor and writer.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 "GOWER, Rt. Hon. Lord Ronald Sutherland-''' ''Who's Who'', 1907 59 page 711</ref>		'''Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower<ref>pronounced loóssŏn gór, IPA ['lus''ə''n 'gɔ''r''] – ''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'', Oxford University Press, 1971</ref>)''' 1845–1916, known as ''' Lord Ronald Gower''', was a Scottish aristocrat, [[Liberal]] politician, sculptor and writer.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 "GOWER, Rt. Hon. Lord Ronald Sutherland-''' ''Who's Who'', 1907 59 page 711</ref>

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	[[File:Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower by Henry Scott ('Harry') Tuke.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of Lord Ronald Gower by [[Henry Scott Tuke]], 1897]]		[[File:Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower by Henry Scott ('Harry') Tuke.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of Lord Ronald Gower by [[Henry Scott Tuke]], 1897]]
	'''Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower''' (1845–1916 pronounced ~~loosson gor~~, IPA ['lus''ə''n 'gɔ''r'']<ref>''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'', Oxford University Press, 1971</ref>), known as ''' Lord Ronald Gower''', was a Scottish aristocrat, [[Liberal]] politician, sculptor and writer.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 "GOWER, Rt. Hon. Lord Ronald Sutherland-''' ''Who's Who'', 1907 59 page 711</ref>		'''Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower''' (1845–1916; pronounced loóssŏn gór, IPA ['lus''ə''n 'gɔ''r'']<ref>''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'', Oxford University Press, 1971</ref>), known as ''' Lord Ronald Gower''', was a Scottish aristocrat, [[Liberal]] politician, sculptor and writer.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 "GOWER, Rt. Hon. Lord Ronald Sutherland-''' ''Who's Who'', 1907 59 page 711</ref>

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	[[File:Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower by Henry Scott ('Harry') Tuke.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of Lord Ronald Gower by [[Henry Scott Tuke]], 1897]]		[[File:Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower by Henry Scott ('Harry') Tuke.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of Lord Ronald Gower by [[Henry Scott Tuke]], 1897]]
	'''Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower''' (1845–1916), known as ''' Lord Ronald Gower''', was a Scottish aristocrat, [[Liberal]] politician, sculptor and writer.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 "GOWER, Rt. Hon. Lord Ronald Sutherland-''' ''Who's Who'', 1907 59 page 711</ref>		'''Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower''' (1845–1916 pronounced loosson gor, IPA ['lus''ə''n 'gɔ''r'']<ref>''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'', Oxford University Press, 1971</ref>), known as ''' Lord Ronald Gower''', was a Scottish aristocrat, [[Liberal]] politician, sculptor and writer.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 "GOWER, Rt. Hon. Lord Ronald Sutherland-''' ''Who's Who'', 1907 59 page 711</ref>

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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	[[File:Tuke - Frank Hird - a comission for Lord Ronald Gower - colored chalks (29 x 24 cm.), 1894.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Gower's lover Frank Hird, by [[Henry Scott Tuke]] (1894)]]He never married, and was well known among the homosexual community of the time. [[Oscar Wilde]]'s story ''[[The Portrait of Mr. W. H.]]'' has been interpreted as a comment on Gower's social circle, and Gower is generally identified as the model for [[Lord Henry Wotton]] in [[The Picture of Dorian Gray]].<ref name = "get">David Getsy, ''Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, C. 1880-1930'', Asgate, London, 2004, p.64.</ref> In 1879 hints of his homosexual liaisons published in the journal ''Man of the World'' led Gower to sue the paper, but later in the year the Prince of Wales sent him a letter accusing him of being "a member of an association for unnatural practices", to which Gower wrote an angry reply.<ref name = "get"/> [[John Addington Symonds]], who stayed with him once, stated that Gower "saturates ones spirit in [[Urningthum]] [homosexuality] of the rankest most diabolical kind".<ref name = "get"/>		[[File:Tuke - Frank Hird - a comission for Lord Ronald Gower - colored chalks (29 x 24 cm.), 1894.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Gower's lover Frank Hird, by [[Henry Scott Tuke]] (1894)]]He never married, and was well known among the homosexual community of the time. [[Oscar Wilde]]'s story ''[[The Portrait of Mr. W. H.]]'' has been interpreted as a comment on Gower's social circle, and Gower is generally identified as the model for [[Lord Henry Wotton]] in ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''.<ref name = "get">David Getsy, ''Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, C. 1880-1930'', Asgate, London, 2004, p.64.</ref> In 1879 hints of his homosexual liaisons published in the journal ''Man of the World'' led Gower to sue the paper, but later in the year the Prince of Wales sent him a letter accusing him of being "a member of an association for unnatural practices", to which Gower wrote an angry reply.<ref name = "get"/> [[John Addington Symonds]], who stayed with him once, stated that Gower "saturates ones spirit in [[Urningthum]] [homosexuality] of the rankest most diabolical kind".<ref name = "get"/>

	Gower's most notable lover was the journalist [[Frank Hird]], a relationship that lasted to the end of his life. Gower adopted Hird as his son, leading Wilde to remark on one occasion, "Frank may be seen, but not Hird."<ref name="hyde">H Montgomery Hyde ''The Love That Dared not Speak its Name'' Little, Brown, 1970 page 156</ref>		Gower's most notable lover was the journalist [[Frank Hird]], a relationship that lasted to the end of his life. Gower adopted Hird as his son, leading Wilde to remark on one occasion, "Frank may be seen, but not Hird."<ref name="hyde">H Montgomery Hyde ''The Love That Dared not Speak its Name'' Little, Brown, 1970 page 156</ref>

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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	[[File:Tuke - Frank Hird - a comission for Lord Ronald Gower - colored chalks (29 x 24 cm.), 1894.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Gower's lover Frank Hird, ~~painted~~ by [[Henry Scott Tuke]].]]He never married, and was well known among the homosexual community of the time. [[Oscar Wilde]]'s story ''[[The Portrait of Mr. W. H.]]'' has been interpreted as a comment on Gower's social circle, and Gower is generally identified as the model for [[Lord Henry Wotton]] in [[The Picture of Dorian Gray]].<ref name = "get">David Getsy, ''Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, C. 1880-1930'', Asgate, London, 2004, p.64.</ref> In 1879 hints of his homosexual liaisons published in the journal ''Man of the World'' led Gower to sue the paper, but later in the year the Prince of Wales sent him a letter accusing him of being "a member of an association for unnatural practices", to which Gower wrote an angry reply.<ref name = "get"/> [[John Addington Symonds]], who stayed with him once, stated that Gower "saturates ones spirit in [[Urningthum]] [homosexuality] of the rankest most diabolical kind".<ref name = "get"/>		[[File:Tuke - Frank Hird - a comission for Lord Ronald Gower - colored chalks (29 x 24 cm.), 1894.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Gower's lover Frank Hird, by [[Henry Scott Tuke]] (1894)]]He never married, and was well known among the homosexual community of the time. [[Oscar Wilde]]'s story ''[[The Portrait of Mr. W. H.]]'' has been interpreted as a comment on Gower's social circle, and Gower is generally identified as the model for [[Lord Henry Wotton]] in [[The Picture of Dorian Gray]].<ref name = "get">David Getsy, ''Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, C. 1880-1930'', Asgate, London, 2004, p.64.</ref> In 1879 hints of his homosexual liaisons published in the journal ''Man of the World'' led Gower to sue the paper, but later in the year the Prince of Wales sent him a letter accusing him of being "a member of an association for unnatural practices", to which Gower wrote an angry reply.<ref name = "get"/> [[John Addington Symonds]], who stayed with him once, stated that Gower "saturates ones spirit in [[Urningthum]] [homosexuality] of the rankest most diabolical kind".<ref name = "get"/>

	Gower's most notable lover was the journalist [[Frank Hird]], a relationship that lasted to the end of his life. Gower adopted Hird as his son, leading Wilde to remark on one occasion, "Frank may be seen, but not Hird."<ref name="hyde">H Montgomery Hyde ''The Love That Dared not Speak its Name'' Little, Brown, 1970 page 156</ref>		Gower's most notable lover was the journalist [[Frank Hird]], a relationship that lasted to the end of his life. Gower adopted Hird as his son, leading Wilde to remark on one occasion, "Frank may be seen, but not Hird."<ref name="hyde">H Montgomery Hyde ''The Love That Dared not Speak its Name'' Little, Brown, 1970 page 156</ref>

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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	He was born at ~~teh~~ family's London residence Stafford House (now Lancaster House) in [[St James's]], the youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle. He was and educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and at Trinity College, [[Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>		He was born at the family's London residence Stafford House (now Lancaster House) in [[St James's]], the youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle. He was and educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and at Trinity College, [[Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>

	He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].		He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].

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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	He was born at Stafford House~~, London~~, the youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle, and educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and at Trinity College, [[Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>		He was born at teh family's London residence Stafford House (now Lancaster House) in [[St James's]], the youngest son of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and the former Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle. He was and educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and at Trinity College, [[Cambridge]].<ref>http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=%22LV865LR%22&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 "Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland (LV865LR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.</ref>

	He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].		He was Liberal MP for [[Sutherland]] from 1867 to 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). He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].
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