Duke of Westminster
Duke of Westminster is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The title is named after the London borough .
The family's primary country estate is Eaton Hall , near Chester in Cheshire ; Ely Lodge is also used in County Fermanagh , Northern Ireland . The family had in the past also a large townhouse in London's Park Lane , the Grosvenor House was called.
Award and subordinate titles
The title was bestowed on February 27, 1874 by Queen Victoria to Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster . Since 1869 he had the subordinate titles of 3rd Marquess of Westminster, 4th Earl Grosvenor, 4th Viscount Belgrave, 4th Baron Grosvenor and 11th Baronet, of Eaton.
The title Marquess of Westminster was given on September 13, 1831 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to his grandfather Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Earl Grosvenor at the coronation of William IV . Whose father Sir Richard Grosvenor, 7th Baronet was from George III. in the Peerage of Great Britain on April 8, 1761 to Baron Grosvenor , of Eaton in the County of Chester , and on July 5, 1784 to Earl Grosvenor and Viscount Belgrave , of Belgrave in the County of Chester. His great-great-great-grandfather, the House of Commons Sir Richard Grosvenor , had been bestowed on February 23, 1622 in the Baronetage of England the title of Baronet , of Eaton in the County of Chester.
The heir apparent of the respective duke has the courtesy title Earl Grosvenor , his heir apparent the courtesy title Viscount Belgrave .
capital
Today's Duke of Westminster is one of Britain's richest men with an estimated fortune of around £ 9.9 billion . He was ranked 29th on the list of the world's richest people in Forbes Magazine in 2009. He has u. a. 1.2 km 2 in size in London's posh districts of Mayfair , Belgravia and Pimlico , 770,000 m 2 of it in Belgravia , which is adjacent to Buckingham Palace , and the Eaton Hall country estate in Cheshire .
List of title holders
Grosvenor Baronets, of Eaton (1622)
- Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet (1584-1645)
- Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet (1604–1664)
- Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet (1656-1700)
- Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet (1689-1732)
- Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 5th Baronet (1693–1733)
- Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet († 1755)
- Sir Richard Grosvenor, 7th Baronet (1731–1802) (raised to Baron Grosvenor in 1761 and Earl of Grosvenor in 1784 )
Earls Grosvenor (1784)
- Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor (1731–1802)
- Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Earl Grosvenor (1767–1845) (promoted to Marquess of Westminster in 1831 )
Marquesses of Westminster (1831)
- Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster (1767–1845)
- Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster (1795–1869)
- Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster (1825–1899) (promoted to Duke of Westminster in 1874 )
Dukes of Westminster (1874)
- Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825–1899)
- Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953)
- William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster (1894–1963)
- Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster (1907-1967)
- Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster (1910–1979)
- Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (1951-2016)
- Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster (born 1991)
There is currently no title inheritance on the Dukedom. Heir presumptive to the remaining titles is Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (* 1934).
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://features.thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist/view/group88#profile-16
- ↑ British Duke: One of the richest men in the world is dead. In: Spiegel Online. August 10, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
Web links
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Westminster, Duke of (UK, 1874) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Westminster, Marquess of (UK, 1831) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Grosvenor, Earl (GB, 1784) at Cracroft's Peerage