Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower Audio Books

Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1845–1916),was a Scottish Liberal politician, sculptor and writer from the Leveson-Gower family. He was the youngest son of George, 2nd Duke of Sutherland and was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Member of Parliament for Sutherland from 1867–1874 after which he was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at Stratford-on-Avon. He also wrote biographies of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc, and a history of the Tower of London, and is widely believed to be the inspiration for the model character in Oscar Wilde’s A Portrait of Dorian Gray.

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