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Duchess Of Westminster
Duchess of Westminster is a title given to the wife of the Duke of Westminster, an extant title in the peerage of the United Kingdom which was created in 1874. Upon the marriage of her son, the incumbent, Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, Natalia, will assume the style of "Her Grace Natalia, Duchess of Westminster" or "Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Westminster." Duchesses of Westminster References {{reflist British duchesses by marriage, # Duchesses of Westminster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Westminster
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. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Dukes were each grandsons of the first. The present holder of the title is Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke, who inherited the dukedom on 9 August 2016 on the death of his father, Gerald. The present duke is a godfather of Prince George of Wales. The Duke of Westminster's seats are at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, and at Abbeystead House, Lancashire. The family's London town house was Grosvenor House, Park Lane, while Halkyn Castle was built as a sporting lodge for the family in the early 1800s. The traditional burial place of the Dukes is the Old Churchyard adjacent to St Mary's Church, Eccleston. History of the Grosvenor family Richard Grosvenor was created Baronet of Eaton in January 1622. Sir R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby
Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby, (16 September 1867 – 20 October 1935) was a British soldier and courtier. Background Known as Fritz, Ponsonby was the second of three sons of General Sir Henry Ponsonby and his wife the Hon. Mary Elizabeth (née Bulteel). member of a junior branch of the Ponsonby family, he was the grandson of General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby and the great-grandson of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough. Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, was his younger brother. His godparents were German Emperor Frederick III and Empress Victoria. Military career After attending Eton, Ponsonby received a commission in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry as a second lieutenant. He transferred to the Grenadier Guards and was promoted to lieutenant on 2 July 1892. He was promoted to captain on 15 February 1899, and served with the 3rd Battalion of his regiment in the Second Boer War. Wounded at the end of the war, he retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke Of Westminster
Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, (22 December 1951 – 9 August 2016), was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. In the first ever edition of ''The Sunday Times Rich List'', published in 1989, he was ranked as the second richest person in the United Kingdom, with a fortune of £3.2 billion (approximately £ in today's value), with only The Queen above him. Born in Northern Ireland, Grosvenor moved from an island in the middle of Lower Lough Erne to be educated at Sunningdale and Harrow boarding schools in the south of England. After a troubled education, he left school with two O-levels. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and served in the Territorial Army, where he was promoted to major-general in 2004. Via Grosvenor Estates, the business he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Phillips (British Army Officer)
Harold Pedro Joseph "Bunnie" Phillips, (6 November 1909 – 27 October 1980) was a British Army officer, holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards. Early life and service Phillips was born on 6 November 1909 in Chelsea, London. His father was Colonel Joseph Harold John Phillips, of Royston, Hertfordshire, his mother was Mary Mercedes Bryce, youngest daughter of John Pablo Bryce. His maternal grandmother, María de las Mercedes González de Candamo e Iriarte (1849–1929), was the sister of Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte, President of Peru. He was a first cousin of Janet, Marchioness of Milford Haven, whose mother-in-law, Countess Nadejda de Torby, was the sister of his own mother-in-law, Countess Anastasia de Torby. Phillips joined the Coldstream Guards, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During World War II, he was assigned to the British Security Co-ordination in New York City, under William Stephenson, and the Allied Mission in Washi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke Of Westminster
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, (24 April 1910 – 19 February 1979) was a British soldier, landowner, businessman and politician. In the 1970s he was the richest man in Britain. Background and early life Grosvenor was born Mr. Robert Grosvenor, younger son of Lord Hugh Grosvenor, himself the sixth son and tenth child of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster by his second wife, the Hon. Katherine Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham. Grosvenor's mother, Lady Mabel Crichton, was the daughter of John Crichton, 4th Earl Erne. Grosvenor was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public boarding school in Berkshire. He was a member of the school's contingent of the junior division of the Officer Training Corps. He reached the rank of cadet lance corporal. Military career On 28 June 1938, Grosvenor was commissioned into the 11th (City of London Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade, a newly formed Territorial Army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham
John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, (23 October 1881 – 31 July 1949), was a British peer, soldier, and Conservative politician from the Lyttelton family. Biography Cobham was the eldest son of Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham, and the Hon. Mary Susan Caroline Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham. Alfred Lyttelton was his uncle. He was educated at Eton. Like his father and his uncle, Cobham was a successful cricketer. He represented Worcestershire County Cricket Club in three first-class matches during 1924–5. He was President of Marylebone Cricket Club in 1935, again emulating his father and uncle. Lyttelton was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on 4 December 1901, and served with the regiment in the Second Boer War in South Africa. He returned home with the ''SS Kinfauns Castle'' after the war had ended, leaving Cape Town in early August 1902. After a couple of months on leave, during which there were formal ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola Grosvenor, Duchess Of Westminster
Viola Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (10 June 1912 – 3 May 1987) was a British aristocrat who was the wife of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, the mother of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster and the grandmother of Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, Charles Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe and Thomas Anson, 6th Earl of Lichfield. Early life Born Viola Maud Lyttelton in Wandsworth, London, she was the daughter of John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, and Violet Yolande Leonard. Her brother, Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, played cricket for Worcestershire in the 1930s and was Governor-General of New Zealand from 1957 to 1962. Their cousin was the jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton. Her nephew was Major Hugh Lindsay, an equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, who was killed on 10 March 1988, aged 34, in a ski accident after being caught up in an avalanche on Gotschnagrat Mountain while accompanying Charles, Prince of Wales, on a holida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke Of Westminster
Colonel Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster (13 February 1907 – 25 February 1967) was a British landowner and aristocrat. Early life 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. Career He was commissioned into the 9th Lancers from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1926. He was promoted lieutenant in 1929, Captain in 1936, and major in 1943. From 1936 to 1938 he served as regimental adjutant and in 1938 he was appointed adjutant of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry. He commanded his regiment in the Second World War with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was wounded in the leg by a shell splinter on 18 July 1944, suffering from attacks of septicaemia for the remainder of his life. In 1947 he was invalide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Grosvenor, Duchess Of Westminster
Sally Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster ('' née'' Perry; 1909 – 30 May 1990) was the wife of Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster. Early life The Duchess was one of three extramarital daughters of Muriel Perry. She, her twin sister Elizabeth and three years younger sister Diana were raised by a Miss Coutts and seldom visited by their mother, who was busy serving as a nurse in the First World War and who appeared to have no interest in their upbringing; she would later serve as nurse in the Second World War and be awarded eight medals and an OBE. The girls' only visitor was a man they knew as "Uncle Bodger", who would come several times a year with presents. The man was Roger Ackerley, who, on his death, left his son, J. R. Ackerley, a letter in which he confessed to being the girls' father and asked him to care for them. Diana's birth was never registered and they were all given their mother's surname. Ackerley described the lives of his half-sisters in his 1968 memoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Grosvenor, Duchess Of Westminster
Anne Winifred Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (née Sullivan; 13 April 1915 – 31 August 2003), known as Nancy, was an Republic of Ireland, Irish born peeress best known for her passion for horse racing. Early life Her parents were Brigadier-General Edward Sullivan and his wife Winifred ( Burns). She spent her early life in Glanmire, County Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ireland growing up with two brothers, Adam and George, and practising her riding skills. When the Second World War broke out, Anne Sullivan volunteered for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and served six years as personnel driver, while her brother, Adam, was killed during the Norway campaign. After the war, she returned home to Ireland to stay with her father, and met Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, in 1946. The enormously rich Duke, then married to his third wife Loelia Lindsay, Loelia but long separated, immediately bought property next to her family's home and asked his agent to ask Miss Sullivan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loelia Lindsay
Loelia Mary, Lady Lindsay, formerly Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, (''née'' The Honourable Loelia Ponsonby (6 February 1902 – 1 November 1993), was a British socialite, needlewoman and magazine editor. Family and first marriage Lindsay was the only daughter of the courtier Sir Frederick Ponsonby, later 1st Baron Sysonby, and Victoria Lily (Kennard), Lady Sysonby, the well-known cookbook author. She spent her early years at St James's Palace, Park House at Sandringham, and Birkhall. One of the Bright Young People, she met the twice-divorced Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster. They were married on 20 February 1930 in a blaze of publicity, with Winston Churchill as the best man, but were unable to have children. Her marriage to the enormously wealthy peer failed, and was described by James Lees-Milne as "a definition of unadulterated hell". It was dissolved in 1947 after years of separation. Life after divorce After her divorce, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess Of Westminster
Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (''née'' Phillips; born 8 May 1959), is a British aristocrat, philanthropist and winemaker. She is the widow of the 6th Duke of Westminster and mother of the 7th Duke. As of 2021, the Duchess's family, specifically her son, were 12th on the ''Sunday Times Rich List'' with a net worth of £10.045 billion. Early life Born Natalia Ayesha Phillips, she is the youngest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Harold "Bunnie" Phillips and Georgina "Gina" Wernher. Her paternal grandparents were Colonel Joseph Phillips and Mary Bryce, daughter of John Pablo Bryce. Her maternal grandparents were Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt, and Countess Anastasia de Torby, morganatic daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia. Tally, as she is known to friends and family, had an older brother, Nicholas (1947–1991), and three older sisters, including Marita Knight and the late Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn. She and her siblings are direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
