High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir George Granville Leveson-Gower KCB (19 May 1858 - 18 July 1951), was a British civil servant and Liberal politician. He held political office as Comptroller of the Household between 1892 and 1895 and later served as a Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1908 to 1924. In 1921 he was knighted.