Lieutenant Richard Henry Gresham LEVESON-GOWER
No 4 Company, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards

Date of birth: 27th November 1894
Date of death: 7th February 1982

Died aged 87
Unknown
Richard Henry Gresham Leveson-Gower was born at 25 Chester Street, Belgravia on the 27th of November 1894 the eldest son of Granville Charles Gresham Leveson-Gower MA JP DL and Evelyn Mildred (nee Brassey) Leveson-Gower of the Titsey Estate in Surrey.

He was educated at Eton College where he was in the Reverend Henry Thomas Bowlby’s and Mr Samuel Gurney Lubbock’s houses from January 1908 to July 1912.

In 1912 he became a member of the administrative staff at the Great Western Railway and of the Hudson Bay Company until the war interrupted his service there.

Following the outbreak of war he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 23rd (County of London) Battalion London Regiment on the 15th of September 1914 and transferred to the Grenadier Guards on the 15th of September 1915.

He served in France and Belgium from 1915 to 1918 when the school magazine described him as:-
“Now back from France and placed on light duty in command of a signalling corps at Caterham”. He resigned his commission on the 1st of April 1920 and lived at Titsey Place.

From 1923 he worked as a clerk in the records officer at the Hudson Bay Company in their London office and was appointed as the first archivist of the company in May 1931.

During the Second World War he was mobilised for war service on the 26th of August 1939 as a Railway Transport Officer with the rank of Lieutenant and was promoted to temporary Captain on the 1st of December 1939. He was promoted to temporary Major on the 8th of January 1945 and was appointed as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for Movement Control for the railways, London District on the 5th of July 1945.

He returned to the Hudson Bay Company in 1947 and resigned from the company in 1949 to manage the family estate at Titsey. He never married and on his death the estate passed into trust.

He was Chairman of Limpsfield Chart Golf Club from 1949 until his death. His funeral was held at St James' Church, Titsey on the 18th of February 1982.

Went on to Eton College

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