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Duke of Westminster is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created by Queen Victoria in 1874 and bestowed upon Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster . It is the most recent dukedom conferred on someone not related to the British royal family .
Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, DL (born 29 January 1991), is a British aristocrat and businessman. He inherited his title and control of the Grosvenor Estate , then worth an estimated £9 billion, from his father in 2016. [ 1 ]
Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, CB, CVO, OBE, TD, VR, CD, DL (22 December 1951 – 9 August 2016) was a British landowner, businessman, aristocrat, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton.
The Duke of Westminster. He was the son of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1853–1884), the predeceased son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, and Lady Sibell Lumley (1855–1929), daughter of the 9th Earl of Scarborough. His mother later remarried the prominent politician George Wyndham. [2]
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, KG, PC, JP (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845, Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869, and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.
William Grosvenor was the son of Lord Henry George Grosvenor (1861–1914), a son of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.His mother, Dora Mina Erskine-Wemyss, was the daughter of James Erskine Wemyss, and a great-granddaughter of William IV.
Gerald was the son of Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor and Lady Mabel Crichton and a grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. He inherited his titles 1963 upon the death of his sixty-eight-year old cousin, William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster, who died unmarried and childless.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, TD, JP, DL (24 April 1910 – 19 February 1979), was a British soldier, landowner, businessman and politician. In the 1970s he was the richest man in Britain.