The seventh Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, is the wealthiest man in the North West. There is no heir to the Dukedom of Westminster. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Twenty years later, he again supported a Pitt (this time the Younger) and was again rewarded, now with an earldom, in 1784. THE new Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, is just 25 but has just inherited nearly 100,000 acres in Scotland including three mountains following the death of his father. Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November 1977) is a British art historian, writer, and former art dealer. 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Two drivers rushed to hospital after head-on smash on Scots road. A spokesman for the Grosvenor estate said: Two small overseas trusts were established over 50 years ago, when it was accepted common practice to facilitate the acquisitions of some non-UK assets. Waterhouse fans were outraged. Since the London museum began selling digital versions of works from its collection last September, it has emitted enough carbon to power an . The Earl moved his own London residence from Millbank House (on the Thames) in 1805 to Mayfair, to a house he purchased from the Duke of Gloucester which he renamed Grosvenor House. Chanel was becoming one of the world's most recognisable clothes designers, and the duke was Britain's richest man with an estimated income of a guinea per minute. Next day "Bendor", telephoning to a friend, said that if there was a war it would be entirely due to the Jews and Duff Cooper. Coco got three fish yesterday.. Hugh "Bendor" Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster was born on 19 March 1879. With a net worth of around 9.3bn, he's also the richest . [10] He also works as a journalist and writer, and presents programmes for BBC2's The Culture Show. He joined the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and close friends and family for the ceremony at St Jamess Palace in London on October 23, 2013. Richard Grosvenor was created Baronet of Eaton in January 1622. She recalls:[17]. 8)Oxford and Cambridgeandtop US universitiesinvested offshore, with some of the money going into fossil fuel industries. Well-equipped with salmon, trout and snipe. The earlier full name of the city, Castrum Deva, reflects the importance of the River Dee as a border between English and Welsh territories, and one of William the Conquerors chief lieutenants (and probable kinsmen), Hugh Lupus (the wolf, or le Gros the fat) was named Earl of Chester, with extensive military and administrative powers. 9) Theman managing Angolas sovereign wealth fund invested it in projects he stood to profit from. The 2nd Earl also turned to rebuilding Eaton Hall in Cheshire from about 1803, engaging one of the Prince of Waless favourite architects (notably in Brighton), William Porden, to build a neo-Gothic mansion of princely proportionsdescribed by contemporaries as either epic and wondrous or in monstrously bad taste. 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Paper Subscription to the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, Paper Subscription to the Paisley Daily Express, 2023 Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd, Princess Diana's bodyguard says it's "impossible" for James Hewitt to be Prince Harrys father, Man arrested after climbing over security fence at Buckingham Palace, Prince George's first wheels - a Range Rover Vogue - go up for sale, Remote Scottish island seeking couple for once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity. There is no public register listing the names, beneficiaries or holdings of any UK trusts, despite the fact such vehicles control vast tracts of land and property in Britain. He was a supporter of the Crown in the Northwest, and served as both Sheriff of Cheshire and Sheriff of Denbighshire, in Wales. British media said his 25-year old son, Hugh Grosvenor, will inherit the title and fortune. The title Marquess of Westminster was bestowed upon Robert Grosvenor, the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, at the coronation of William IV in 1831. HMRC has a register of trusts that pay tax, but this is not available to the public. Coco Chanel and her fascinating ties to Scotland laid bare in new book. Dad who lost all his limbs in freak accident is finally able to hold his daughters again. They had subsisted on little more than the snails in which the region abounded, but said their captors had not been overly cruel. While attached to the Cheshire Yeomanry he developed a prototype Rolls-Royce Armoured Car for their use. Fourth duke: 1907-1967. He subsequently invested in land in South Africa and Rhodesia, and visited the colony with his wife in late 1902.[11]. Stalker cop who harassed fellow officer slapped with 12 month contact ban. There is a Fifth Duke of Westminsters Settlement, created in 1965, and the sixth duke, who died last year, created two more. Coco Chanel spent. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 19) An ex-minister who defended tax avoidance has a Bahamas trust fund. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. The blog covers news of auctions from the likes of Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams of old masters such as Van Dyck, Rubens, Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo, British artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and William Hogarth, as well as modern and contemporary artists . The Scrope family won the lawsuit, forcing the Grosvenors to adopt their golden wheatsheaf (a garb in heraldic language, an ancient symbol of Cheshire), but had fallen into obscurity, so in a way, this reclaiming of the bend or symbolism was a victory long in coming. The oldest trust, simply referred to as ADWSLF in the data, was settled, or created, in 1953 by the second duke upon his death. He succeeded the Dukedom on the death his father in August 2016. Hugh Richard Arthur 2nd Duke of Westminster "Bendor" Grosvenor, 1879 - 1953 Hugh Richard Arthur 2nd Duke of Westminster Grosvenor was born on month day 1879, at birth place, to Victor Alexander Grosvenor and Sibell Mary Lady Grosvenor (born Lumley). Where the group occasionally has entities in offshore locations, it is typically as a result of the requirements of joint-venture partners.. The title is now held by Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. 23) SevenRepublican super-donorskeep money in tax havens. Edward George Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1904-1909), [1] who died aged 4, after an operation for appendicitis. The buildings included a formal wing, a private wing, a clock tower, a private chapel, and stables that would rival those of any European monarch. The main course was steak and chips while dessert was provided in a bar area off the dance floor. Grosvenor is a grandson of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury, [15] and fifth cousin of Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. In Monte Carlo in 1923, Grosvenor was introduced to Coco Chanel by Vera Bate Lombardi. The subsidiary titles are: Marquess of Westminster (created 1831), Earl Grosvenor (1784), Viscount Belgrave, of Belgrave in the County of Chester (1784), and Baron Grosvenor, of Eaton in the County of Chester (1761). Grosvenor did not want to share this data. She married, secondly, Major Stephen Vernon in 1940. Control of the . The heir, 'Earl Grosvenor', predeceased his father, so young 'Bendor' took over as 2 nd Duke and ruled over the Grosvenor estates (estimated in 1900 at about 6 million pounds, or over 700 million in today's money) for the next half-century. The result is only a little better, especially with the stark contrast of the towering chapel and stable buildings. Police arrest man after 'disturbance' near Scots primary school. Last Tuesday, the Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Britain's wealthiest native-born citizen, died suddenly on his Lancastrian estate, at the age of 64. His titles and the entailed Westminster estate passed to his cousin, William Grosvenor, and thence to the two sons of his youngest half-uncle Lord Hugh Grosvenor (killed in action in 1914). He was the son of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, and Lady Sibell Lumley, the daughter of the 9th Earl of Scarborough. St Mary the Virgin Churchyard. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Nevertheless, the Marquess continued the family tradition of serving as Mayor of Chester, and for many years Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire. It is the most recent dukedom conferred on someone not related to the British royal family. These trusts are about trying to keep control of the assets within the family unit.. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO, DSO (familiarly "Bendor"; 19 March 1879 19 July 1953) was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world. 16) Stars of theBBC hit sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys used a web of offshore companies to avoid tax. Evil stepmother who filmed toddler as he lay dying found guilty of manslaughter. The sixth Duke of Westminster was buried in the Old Churchyard at St Mary's Church, Eccleston, in the Grosvenor family plot. By the turn of the 20th century, the Westminster family was enormousthe 1st Duke had married twice and sired twelve children, and three of his sons had sons of their own. [16] He is also of Swiss and Dutch heritage. It thus seemed to make sense to move the Grosvenors up into this world of dukes, and it didnt hurt that the 1st Duke of Westminsters annual income had reached about 200,000 (about 25 million today). The papers reveal a number of other offshore entities, some of which held investments in Asia. The Ebury estate consisted of about 500 acres on the north bank of the Thames in what was then mostly undrained, swampy land west of the town of Westminster, through which ran the lower courses of the River Tyburn. The children of the 6th Duke and Duchess were therefore raised in close proximity the royal family, and there are various godparentages in both directions. The 29-year-old aristocrat is also Prince George's godfather. His tall, diffident,. The Grosvenor spokesman said, after checking the records, no evidence had been found to suggest that the trustees asked for any such dispensation from the Bermuda Monetary Authority in 1999. The elder, Lady Ursula, married twice and had children, but the younger, Lady Mary, never married, and despite the lack of a ducal title, managed to keep up the princely lifestyle of her forebears, as manager of large estates in Kenya, South Africa and the Scottish Highlands, until her death in 2000. Dukes and Abbeys in the Midi: A Circular Drive around the Centre ofFrance. Answer (1 of 8): Grosvenor the family name, derived from Hugh Le Grand Veneur, a member of a Norman French family that aided William the Conqueror in 1066. His fortune, which includes the family seat, Eaton Hall near Chester, now goes to Hugh, whose previous title was Earl Grosvenor. [17] His father's eldest half-brother is Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton.[18]. 26) Thecelebrities, from Harvey Weinstein to Shakira, with offshore interests. The 1st Marquess of Westminster died in 1845 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard (who had been known for most of his life by the courtesy title Viscount Belgrave). He reportedly already has a taste for the high life after a staggering 5million was reputedly splashed out on his 21st birthday bash, attended by Prince Harry. He inherited the estate of Eaton Hall in Cheshire and land in Mayfair and Belgravia . [6] In 2016 he sold a newly identified portrait by Joan Carlile, the first professional British female artist, to the Tate gallery. It was sold in the 1920s and mostly demolished, to be reborn as the Grosvenor House Hotel which remains today in all its splendour. The new laird of Reay has kept a relatively low profile. [7], Lord Grosvenor had taken a commission with the Royal Horse Guards and was in South Africa serving in the Second Boer War, when in December 1899 he succeeded his grandfather. The family's first hereditary honour was a baronetcy conferred by James I in 1622, largely to raise revenue . Lochmore was a grand Victorian building, and served as the main house on the Reay estate. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The Dukedom and Marquessate are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; the rest are in the Peerage of Great Britain. For ground transportation he had 17 Rolls-Royce automobiles and a private train built to facilitate travel from Eaton Hall directly into London, where his townhouse Grosvenor House was located. He is known for discovering a number of important lost artworks by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger. According to the American magazine Forbes guide to the worlds wealthy, the Duke had a fortune of 9.35billion, making him the 68th richest billionaire in the world, and the third richest in the UK. Aside from his palatial residences at Grosvenor House in Mayfair and Cliveden, the 1st Duke yet again decided to rebuilt Eaton Hall in Cheshire. He held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire between 1907 and 1920. 29)One of the worlds biggest touts used an offshore firm to avoid tax on profits from reselling Adele and Ed Sheeran tickets. 7) A previously unknown$450m offshore trust that has sheltered the wealth of Lord Ashcroft. St Mary's Church, Eccleston, where all the Dukes of Westminster are buried including the sixth Duke, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor. The 3rd Marquis of Westminster succeeded his father in 1869, and was soon after raised once more in the peerage, to the top rank, a dukedom, in the resignation honours requested by Gladstone in 1874. Just four months after I revealed their clandestine romance, TV historian Dan Snow and glamorous heiress Lady Edwina Grosvenor have . He was succeeded by his eldest son, RICHARD, 2nd Marquess (1795-1869), KG, PC, who wedded, in 1819, Elizabeth, younger daughter of George, 1st Duke of Sutherland. After his dalliance with Coco Chanel, he was fascinated by the Brazilian Aime de Heeren, who was not interested in marrying him, but to whom he gave significant jewellery, once part of the French Crown Jewels. The first was settled in 1971, the second in 1974. Mary Davies, Lady Grosvenor, is only normally noted in two other contexts in the histories of the family: one that she converted to Catholicism in about 1695, and the other, that she went mad about the same timeI suspect these are just two ways of telling the same story according to the biases of the time In any case, she lived a long life, until 1730, by which time her three sons, Richard, Thomas and Robert (the 4th, 5th and 6th baronets in succession) had begun developing the northern parts of Ebury Manor into a new area of fashionable residence they called Mayfair, centred around Grosvenor Square. Dan Snow and Duke Of Westminster's daughter wed in secret. A massive colonnade was added later in the century, and in 1889 Grosvenor House became one of the first electrified buildings in the country. On its own, I suspect the current house would look cute, sort of bijou, but the juxtaposition of old and new struck me as quite incongruous when I visited on one of the rare open days (even then, only the gardens and the stable block are open). Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, is the son of the late Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster and his wife Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, the dowager Duchess of Westminster. We didnt realise who was. 14) Thesecret loan and alliance used by the London-listed multinational Glencorein its efforts to secure lucrative mining rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 13)Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon's attacks on Hillary Clinton. Over the generations, the family developed the land into two of Londons most affluent neighbourhoods, Mayfair and Belgravia. [18] Publications [ edit] "Le Grand Veneur" literally means "the Master Huntsman" in French, an elevated title in William's 11th-century French court. The marriage was not long a happy one, and within five years Henrietta, Lady Grosvenor, was embroiled in a scandalous affair with the Kings younger brother, the Duke of Cumberland. Join thousands in getting the latest Scotland Now stories sent straight to your inbox. Members of the 29-year-old's family were sickened after spotting a sign reading 'Justice for Morton Eadie' being flown above the stadium during Sunday's Old Firm match in Glasgow. Paradise Papers bring to light key parts of structure used to manage 9.5bn fortune inherited last year by Hugh Grosvenor, 26. The 1st Earl Grosvenor did not neglect his northern duties, however, and married a Vernon from Staffordshire, served as Mayor of Chester in 1759, and in the late 1760s acquired the manors of Belgrave and Eccleston which bordered his Eaton estate. By the turn of the century, Grosvenor International Holdings Ltd (GIHL) had assets worth more than C$1bn (600m), with 42% of its shares held by screen companies in Bermuda and Panama. GMB's Susanna Reid forced to change dress that was too 'racy' for morning TV. Nevertheless, the young 6th Duke, who took over from his father in 1979, firmly established himself in London and in the Northwestin fact more so than most of his predecessors, acting as chairman of a number of local charities in Cheshire and Liverpool, and chancellor of two of the newest universities in the country, first of Manchester Metropolitan (where I work) from its inception as a full-fledged university in 1992, then of Chester University when it too attained university status in 2005. The second Duke of Westminster, known as 'Bendor' after his grandfather's racehorse, 'Bend Or', owned 17 Rolls-Royces and used to hide diamonds under the pillows of his mistresses. [citation needed], In 1931, the Duke, a Conservative, exposed his brother-in-law William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (18721938) as a homosexual to the King and Queen. The Ebury barons, with their seat at Moor Park in Hertfordshire, would continue into the 20th century, and inherited the Wilton earldom in 1999 (though today they live in Australia). This was the view of contemporaries, and previous biographers have reinforced it. RM 2HHKH3J - The 2nd Duke of Westminster at Chester Races May 1936. He was the son of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, and Lady Sibell Mary Lumley, the daughter of the 9th Earl of Scarborough. As a dynastic history, their story is a good example of the enduring marriage between the English provincial gentry and the economic and political power of London. He said investors in the property fund would have paid tax in their own countries and the use of jurisdictions such as Bermuda was common for these types of funds, in order to avoid investors being taxed twice. Their Senussi captors attempted to run away but were gunned down by the enraged British rescuers. Anyone looking to take a break from the stress of modern life should consider applying for a unique job on the tiny Isle of Rona, which is completely off the grid. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor. Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor is Britains youngest billionaire. 2)Prince Charless estate made a big profiton a stake in his friends offshore firm. At the time, Chanel was on the way to achieving global recognition for her work as a fashion designer, and the duke - a landowner known to family and friends as . In 2014, after almost a century owned by the Grosvenor family, it was put on the market. The new royal residence, Buckingham Palace, lay between Mayfair and Belgravia, and formed an effective beating heart of the new aristocratic quarter of west London. His prominence in the House of Commons as MP for Chester earned him a baronetcy in 1622. "His anti-Semitic rants were notorious", according to a biographer of Coco Chanel. One of these, Richard Grosvenor, married three times within this social set; his wives had names familiar to those who live in the northwest: Cholmondeley, Wilbraham and Warbuton. Because the Bermuda company was to be controlled by trusts, Appleby would need to follow standard procedure and disclose the names of their beneficiaries and other basic information to the regulator. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, grandson of the first duke, was known to family and friends as Bendor and was a lover of Coco Chanel. On Monday, a "massive" walrus was spotted basking on a rock on the west coast of Scotland by a local fisherman, and it has been speculated that it may be the same animal that was recorded in Iceland last week. A year and a half later, Hugh attended Prince Georges christening after being chosen as the youngest of the royal babys seven godparents. A picturesque estate that is "off grid" has revealed that it is looking for seasonal help this year, and it could be the perfect opportunity for those needing an escape from the hustle and bustle. I love heraldry and genealogy. (LogOut/ Driver who ploughed Range Rover into woman in horror Boxing Day crash avoids jail. On one occasion, when tasked with setting up a Bermuda company in 1999, Grosvenor representatives asked Appleby to seek dispensation from the normal rules for declaring who the trust beneficiaries were. The new Duke of Westminster was passed on to the late Duke's son. Bartender shares 'rude' comment customers should never say when ordering drinks. Detective Inspector Graeme Dursley was speaking at the inquiry in Edinburgh today, March 1. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster. Once you clean your machine this way, it's said to keep the mould away for good - leaving your clothes fresh and clean. - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor", "Dr Bendor Grosvenor Old Masters expert and television presenter", Art History News, run by Bendor Grosvenor, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bendor_Grosvenor&oldid=1139182839, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 8. Over the next century, the family married, as expected, with the major county families of CheshireFitton, Stanley, Legh, Norris, Venablesbut also across the Welsh border into Flintshire. Cops raced to the scene earlier today after the alarm was raised at around 1.50pm. A female friend who knew Hugh during his time at Newcastle University, where he studied countryside management, said: We just knew him as Hugh from uni. He left two daughters. Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's uncles and aunts: Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's aunt was Lady Elizabeth Harriet Butler Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's uncle-by-marriage was James Edward William Theobald Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's aunt was Lady Beatrice Constance Moncreiffe Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of . Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, cousin of the second duke, left no son. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. She married Sir Thomas Grosvenor in 1677, when she was only 12 (and he 21). Once he became duke he set about bringing the Grosvenor Estate more up to dateexpanding holdings into North America and Australia and focusing attention on the decaying Waterhouse buildings at Eaton. The Dukes own wife, Natalia Phillips, while herself untitled, is a close relative of the Mountbattens, through their shared Romanov descent. Edinburgh Street Food, which is the capital's first permanent seven-day-a-week street food market, is now open and serving up a delicious array of tasty dishes. The duke, known to family and friends as Bendor (after his grandfather's . The constituency was first known to have been represented in Parliament in 1545 and continued to exist until the redistribution of seats in 1918. What do rural Cheshire and the most fashionable neighbourhoods in West London have in common? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. In the 1930s he developed extreme right-wing opinions and became a member of several anti-Semitic organizations including the Anglo-German Fellowship. 21) A tax haven lobby group boasted of 'superb penetration' at the top of the UK government before a G8 summit that was expected to bring in greater offshore transparency. 19 Jul 1953 (aged 74) Cheshire, England. Cliveden would become more famous in the 20th century as the country house of the Astors (and the setting for the Profumo Scandal in the 1960s). Codenamed "Operation Modellhut", it was an attempt through the British Embassy in Madrid, via Chanel, to influence Churchill, and thereby persuade the British to negotiate a separate peace with Germany. But the man whose idea it was, and who paid for a good proportion of it, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminyster, died of a heart attack on 9 August 2016, aged only 64. The 6th Duke had reconnected the Grosvenor family with the Northwest of England, but he and his two sisters also connected their family more closely with the higher aristocracy (since several of his predecessors had married young when they were still mere gentlemen, the now numerous dowager duchessesthere were three in 1979came from more modest backgrounds; the 2nd Dukes widow Anne outlasted them all, passing away in 2003!). Initially, Hugh was called Hugh Lupus. Death. In March 2007, Grosvenor announced it was buying out Vesta and Nakar for 40m. A six-bedroom converted station house dating back to 1867 has recently gone on the market, and it allows buyers to purchase their own diesel locomotive and stretch of track. Hed never have boasted about his title or his wealth.. Successful new claims for Pension Credit may also qualify for the 900 cost of living payment. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. According to his Times obituary (21 July 1953), "he was busy up to the day of his death in great schemes of afforestation in Cheshire, in the Lake District, and in Scotland. [4] Sir Richard Grosvenor, the 7th Baronet, was created Baron Grosvenor in 1761, and in 1784 became both Viscount Belgrave (Belgrave, Cheshire) and Earl Grosvenor under George III. It was decided to demolish most of the grand old buildings, leaving the clock tower, the chapel and the stables (which today houses the Grosvenor museum and a carriage museum), and building in its place a more modest house, though this was not built until the early 1970s, once the baton had passed from the 4th Duke to the 5th. 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