Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower (/ˈljuːsən ˈɡɔːr/ LEW-sən GOR; 8 May 1873 – 1 February 1954) was an English cricketer from the Leveson-Gower family.

Leveson Gower was born in Titsey Place near Oxted in Surrey, the seventh of twelve sons of Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower JP DL FSA, by his wife The Honourable Sophia Leveson Gower LJStJ (née Leigh).

[citation needed] He toured the West Indies with Lord Hawke in 1896–97, and North America with Pelham Warner in 1897.

For fifty years he played a major role in organising the Scarborough Festival which takes place at the end of each English cricket season.

[citation needed] He served as a major in the Royal Army Service Corps in the First World War, and was mentioned in dispatches.

[citation needed] Leveson Gower was nicknamed "Shrimp" at school, probably due to his shortness and slight physique, but few cricket sources refer to him by anything other than his initials.

During a tour of America in 1897 organised by Plum Warner[4] that Leveson Gower took part in, the Philadelphian journalist Ralph D. Paine published the following piece of humorous verse concerning the pronunciation of his surname: