According to the Jeffrey R. Jacob’s "Court Jewellers of the World", Butz manufactured a Knight Grand Cross Star of the Order of the Bath for Viscount Granville, the British Ambassador to France circa 1825.
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (1733-1846) was born on 12 October 1773, the youngest son of Granville, first Marquis of Stafford, Lady Susannah Stewart, second daughter of the sixth earl of Galloway. Educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, and a protégé of Pitt, he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 1800 and served as an M.P. for Lichfield (1795-99) and Staffordshire (1799-1815). He became a member of the Privy Council in 1804 and was sent to serve as Special Ambassador to St. Petersburg, Russia. Created Viscount Granville in 1815, he subsequently became minister in Brussels, and then, owing to his friendship with Canning, became British Ambassador to Paris in the autumn of 1824. He was duly appointed G.C.B. and was invested with by the King of France at the Tuileries on 9 June 1825. Recalled in 1827, he was re-appointed as Ambassador by Early Grey and remained there until 1841. On 2 May 1833, he was created Earl Granville and Baron Leveson of Scone, and he died on 8 January 1846.
