Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster

Grave of Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster

Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster , DSO PC , (born February 13, 1907 , † February 25, 1967 in Saighton , Cheshire ) was a British aristocrat and soldier.

Gerald Grosvenor was born to Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor and his wife Lady Mabel Crichton. He was a grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster . In 1945 he married Sally Perry; the couple had no children. The Westminster family are still considered the richest noble family in the United Kingdom to this day.

Grosvenor received his military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst , having previously studied at Eton . In 1926 he joined the regiment of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancer . In 1929 he was promoted to lieutenant, in 1936 to captain and in 1943 to major. From 1936 to 1938 he served as adjutant of the regiment; he then became adjutant of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry , an association of the British Territorial Army . During World War II , he commanded his regiment as a Lieutenant-Colonel ( lieutenant colonel ). On July 18, 1944, he was badly injured in the leg by shrapnel and suffered from attacks of sepsis for the rest of his life .

In 1947 Gerald Grosvenor was discharged from the army as an invalid , but was reinstated in 1950 as a lieutenant in the Army Cadet Force , an army organization for young people. In 1952 he was appointed exon (military rank) of the Yeomen of the Guard . On February 18, 1955, he was made Honorary Colonel of the Cheshire Yeomanry and on May 19, 1961, Colonel of the 9th / 12th Royal Lancers . In 1959 he was High Sheriff of Cheshire and from 1964 to 1967 Lord Steward of the Household .

In 1963, Grosvenor commissioned the demolition of the pompous family home, Eaton Hall , at a time when Victorian architecture was not particularly valued. The old building was replaced by a much smaller, more modern building. This decision to demolish was regretted decades later by historians and architects.

Gerald Grosvenor died in 1967 at the age of 60 as a result of an operation in his Saighton Grange home and bequeathed his title to his brother Robert Grosvenor .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ richest-people.co.uk
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster on thepeerage.com , accessed August 21, 2015.
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33198, HMSO, London, September 3, 1926, p. 5765 ( PDF , accessed October 18, 2013, English).
4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39616, HMSO, London, August 1, 1952, p. 4201 ( PDF , accessed October 18, 2013, English).
5. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42357, HMSO, London, May 16, 1951, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed October 18, 2013, English).
6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41656, HMSO, London, March 13, 1959, p. 1725 ( PDF , accessed October 18, 2013, English).
7. ↑ England's Lost Houses on historytoday.com
8. ↑ The Glasgow Herald v. February 27, 1967

predecessor	Office	successor
William Grosvenor	Duke of Westminster 1963-1967	Robert Grosvenor