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Hace 2 días · The stained glass in the south rose window of Westminster Abbey is a memorial to Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. The glass painters were Messrs Burlison & Grylls, superintended by G.F. Bodley. The scheme was drawn up by M.R. James and the window dedicated on 26th September 1902. The thirty two figures in the outer circle represent the ...
Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, aka Bendor, was born on 19 Mar 1879, He was the son of Victor, Earl Grosvenor and grandson of the 1st Duke of Westminster. His mother was Lady Sibell Lumley, daughter of the Earl of Scarborough. He was the only son out of 3 children and lived at the ancestral estate of Eaton Hall.
The 2nd Duke of Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor (known as ‘Bend’Or’), is usually seen as a super-rich landowner and spoilt playboy. This was the view of contemporaries, and previous biographers have reinforced it. Economic historians have analyzed the Grosvenor Estate, but this thesis is not concerned with the creation, husbandry or growth of the Grosvenor millions.
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Hugh "Bendor" Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster was born on 19 March 1879. 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. He was christened on 20 April 1879 at Eccleston, Cheshire, England.
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. 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.[1] From his childhood and during his adult life he ...
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor was the second and eldest surviving son of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster and Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, the younger daughter of George Leveson-Gower, the 2nd Marquess of Stafford and later the 1st Duke of Sutherland. He was educated at Eton College and, until 1847, at Balliol College, Oxford.
