Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet

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Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet (c. 1647–22 December 1691) was an English politician.

Born William Gower, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet and Frances daughter and coheir of John Leveson. He added the surname Leveson to his own in 1668, when he inherited the Trentham and Lilleshall estates of his maternal great-uncle, Sir Richard Leveson. Leveson-Gower married Lady Jane Granville (the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Bath) and they had three surviving children: Katherine (1670–?, married Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet), John, later 1st Baron Gower (1675–1709) and Jane (d. 1725, married the 4th Earl of Clarendon).

Leveson-Gower inherited his childless nephew's baronetcy in 1689 and on his own death two years later, was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, John.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Caesar Colclough, Bt Edward Mainwaring	Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme with Sir Caesar Colclough, Bt 1675-1679 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt 1679-1685 1675 – 1685	Succeeded by Edward Mainwaring William Sneyd
Preceded by Richard Newport Sir Vincent Corbet, Bt	Member of Parliament for Salop with Richard Newport 1681 – 1685	Succeeded by Edward Kynaston John Walcot
Preceded by Edward Mainwaring William Sneyd	Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme with John Lawton 1689-1690 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt 1690-1691 1689 – 1691	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt Sir John Leveson-Gower, Bt
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Thomas Gower	Baronet (of Sittersham) 1689 – 1691	Succeeded by John Leveson-Gower