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Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor is a descendant of the Hetman of Ukraine Petro Doroshenko through Natalia Nikolayevna Goncharova. [5], As a child the Duke lived on an island in the middle of Lower Lough Erne in Ulster (Ely Lodge, Blaney, County Fermanagh). 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. 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,[2] with a fortune of £3.2 billion (approximately £8.02 billion in today's value)[3] with only The Queen above him. During their 1916 campaign in Egypt, as part of the Western Frontier Force under General William Peyton, the Duke (then a major) commanded the armoured cars of the regiment and took part in the destruction of a Senussi force at the Action of Agagia on 26 February 1916. Eaton Hall is the country house of the Duke of Westminster. Charles Henry Brandt Leonard (1855–1921), President, North of England Zoological Society, 1987 until death, President, Drugs and Alcohol Foundation, 1987–97, President, Holstein UK & Ireland (formerly British Holstein Society), 1988, President, Chester and District Scout Council, 1979 until death. 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. He subsequently invested in land in South Africa and Rhodesia, and visited the colony with his wife in late 1902.[12]. ", During the run-up to the Second World War, he supported various right-wing and anti-Semitic causes, including the Right Club. 21 May 2009), Louis Hugh Lupus van Cutsem (b. [36] He is buried in the family plot at St Mary's Church, Eccleston. [10][11] He was promoted to lieutenant on 13 May 1975 and to captain on 1 July 1980. ; Married to Zagryazhskaya) and the grandfather of Ivan Alexandrovich Zagryazhsky (1749—1807), from whom Natalya Ivanovna Zagryazhskaya was born (married to Goncharova). [34][35] A private funeral attended by close relatives was held on 12 August, and a memorial service was held at Chester Cathedral on 28 November. 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. It is 1 mile south of the village of Eccleston, in Cheshire, England. 17 April 2012). His romantic liaison with Chanel lasted ten years. The prisoners attempted to stop the killings but failed. The Duke became Deputy Commander Land Forces (Reserves) in May 2011. His ruse was only uncovered after Chanel’s assistant offered “the delivery boy” a tip. [16] However, in October 2013, he was named a godfather to Prince George of Cambridge. [25][26] The Duke remained actively involved in the project until his death. - Rostov-on-Don: Phoenix, 2010 .-- 320 p. - (Pushkin's muses). The king was horrified, supposedly saying, "I thought men like that shot themselves. [2] He is the world's richest person aged under 30. The Duke was known for multiple love affairs and spectacular presents. 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. The title is now held by Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. 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. [1], From his childhood and during his adult life he was known within family circles as "Bendor",[2] which was also the name of the racehorse Bend Or owned by his grandfather the first Duke, which won The Derby in 1880, the year following his grandson's birth. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton. He was described as "a pure Victorian who had eyes for his shotgun, his hunters, his dogs … a man who enjoyed hiding diamonds under the pillow of his mistresses …" [6] He was also prompt to seek military service when war broke out, volunteering to fight as a front-line officer in both the Boer War and the First World War. His wife is a descendant of the Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin and therefore of his African ancestor Abram Gannibal as well as of King George II. 12 October 1992). The Duke of Westminster married Natalia Ayesha Phillips, the daughter of Lt-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips and his wife Georgina Wernher, in 1978. He was subsequently promoted colonel and on 26 May 1917, he was named honorary colonel of the regiment. The house is surrounded by its own formal gardens, parkland, farmland and woodland. He left two daughters. Honorary Colonel Northumbrian Universities, This page was last edited on 3 September 2020, at 16:23. Through his mother, he is descended from the Romanov imperial family of Russia, the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin and his wife Natalia Nikolayevna Goncharova, as well as from the latter's great-grandfather—African freed slave turned Russian nobleman Abram Petrovich Hannibal. [6][7][8], From 2011 to 2013, he studied countryside management at Newcastle University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree with upper second-class honours. Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough, Lady Ursula Mary Olivia Grosvenor (21 February 1902. This mission as planned ultimately met with failure, as Churchill had no interest. [15] He was promoted to colonel on 31 December 1994 and was appointed honorary colonel of the 7th Regt Army Air Corps (1 January 1996) and the Northumbrian Universities Officer Training Corps (30 November 1995). [14] An illustration of both Westminster’s extravagance and orchestrated technique in the courting of women has endured in the form of various apocryphal stories. Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, CB, CVO, OBE, TD, CD, DL (22 December 1951 – 9 August 2016), was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general, and peer. The couple were unable to have children[19] and divorced in 1947 after several years of separation. The Duke was President of the BLESMA from 1992, and the Yeomanry Benevolent Fund from 2005, national Vice-President of the Royal British Legion from 1993, and the Reserve Forces' Ulysses Trust from 1995, the Not Forgotten Society from 2004, and Chairman of the Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown from 1992, all until his death. The estate covers about 10,872 acres. She recalls:[16]. [7] In later life the Duke was notable for being virulently opposed to such practices. They had subsisted on little more than the snails in which the region abounded, but said their captors had not been overly cruel. After Coco Chanel he was fascinated by the Brazilian Aimée de Heeren who was not interested in marrying him and to whom he gave significant jewellery, once part of the French Crown Jewels. After a troubled education, he left school with two O-levels. In the First World War the Duke volunteered for front-line combat and served with distinction, showing both initiative in battle and technical skill with motor-cars. His early education was in Northern Ireland before he was sent at age 7 to boarding school at Sunningdale, followed by Harrow. On 14 March 1916, he led the armoured cars on a daring raid against superior forces that destroyed the enemy camp at Bir Asiso. Duke of Westminster, world's richest man under 30, donates £12.5m to coronavirus relief effort Hugh Grosvenor has already donated £2.5m but is … British billionaire Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, is donating $12.5 million to his country's coronavirus relief efforts -- and that's on top of the $3.1 million he gave last month. [23] Work started on the £300m project in April 2016,[24] and was completed in 2018 to replace those at Headley Court. [11] This wealth is held in a trust, of which Grosvenor is a beneficial owner but not the legal owner—an arrangement that received considerable press attention, owing to the inheritance tax exemption it confers. The title then passed to his son, Hugh. Learning that the crews of HMT Moorina and HMS Tara were being held in poor conditions at Bir Hakeim, he led the nine armoured cars—with three armed but unarmoured cars and a further 28 cars and ambulances—on a 120-mile (190 km) dash across the desert to rescue them. Because of his Ulster accent, the Duke struggled to fit in at first, and even after his accent was "bullied" out of him, he found it difficult to make friends. [12][13][14][15], Little is publicly known about Grosvenor's personal life. In 1925, he was introduced to Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel after a party in Monte Carlo and pursued her. [9] After entering RMA Sandhurst in 1973, he passed out as an officer cadet and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve of the Royal Armoured Corps (Queen's Own Yeomanry) on 13 May 1973. The Duke died of coronary thrombosis at Loch More Lodge on his Scottish estate in Sutherland in 1953, aged 74, and was buried in the churchyard of Eccleston Church near Eaton Hall, Cheshire. [37], That the Grosvenor family stood to pay very little, if any, inheritance tax on his £9bn+ fortune led to calls for a review of how the inheritance of trust funds and similar assets are handled in the UK. After a brief visit back home, he returned in February 1900 to serve with the Imperial Yeomanry, as an ADC to Lord Roberts and Lord Milner. 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[27], He was Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute from 1993 until 2012, President of The Tank Museum, Bovington, from 2002, and a committee member of the National Army Museum between 1988–97 and from 2013 until his death. Harriet Tomlinson and the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor via The Daily Mail Widely thought to be the ‘most eligible bachelor in the land’ , the as yet unmarried Duke – known as ‘Hughie’ – is hot property, with his wealth estimated at a staggering … Westminster married Loelia Mary Ponsonby (1902–1993) on 20 February 1930. [17] In late 1943 or early 1944, Chanel and her current lover, Nazi espionage agent Baron Hans Gunther von Dinklage, undertook such an assignment. Their children are: In 1998, the Duke suffered a nervous breakdown and depression, citing the overwhelming pressures of business and public life. Unhappy at boarding school, his education suffered. [12][13] He was promoted to the acting rank of major on 1 January 1985 and to the substantive rank on 22 December.[14]. His wife Loelia wrote in her memoirs: "Of course everybody, even his parents and sisters, would normally have addressed the baby as "Belgrave" so they may have thought that any nickname was preferable. Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster (born 29 January 1991), styled as Earl Grosvenor until August 2016, is a British aristocrat, billionaire, businessman, and owner of Grosvenor Group. Lady Viola Georgina Grosvenor (b. 20 December 1979), married Edward van Cutsem (son of, Jake Louis Hannibal van Cutsem (b. He was Vice-President of the Royal Engineers Music Foundation 1990–94. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and served in the Territorial Army, where he was promoted to major-general in 2004. An avid participant in the hunting life, the Duke owned lodges reserved for the sport in Scotland and France (the Château Woolsack). [11] The war ended in May 1902. The Duke and his family are estimated to be worth £10.1 billion (US$13 billion), according to the Sunday Times Rich List in May 2019. He purchased a home for Chanel in London's prestigious Mayfair district, and in 1927 gave her a parcel of land on the French Riviera at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin where Chanel built her villa, La Pausa. -, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, "Rich List 2019: who is Hugh Grosvenor, the UK's youngest billionaire? He was a member of the MCC and Royal Yacht Squadron and President of Worcestershire County Cricket Club in 1984–86 and of the Youth Sports Trust 1996–2004. [9] He resigned his commission in December 1901,[10] and was appointed captain of the Cheshire (Earl of Chester´s) Imperial Yeomanry the following month. "I hope," Duff spat, "that by tomorrow he will know that we are his most implacable and remorseless enemies". He purportedly concealed a huge uncut emerald at the bottom of a crate of vegetables delivered to Chanel. Whilst attached to the Cheshire Yeomanry he developed a prototype Rolls-Royce Armoured Car for their use. when he [the Duke of Westminster] added that Hitler knew after all that we were his best friends, he set off the powder-magazine. They were divorced in 1926. [5], He was President of the committee planning the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester from 1998, and from 1991 until 1994 had been Director of the committee set up to coordinate the projected 2000 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympics that would have been held at Manchester had the British bid succeeded.[5]. [5], His main personal recreations were field shooting and fishing, and he served as President of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation from 1992 until 2000, and the Atlantic Salmon Trust from 2004 until his death, President of the Game and Wildlife Conservancy Trust for 2000–01 and Vice-President thereafter. "His anti-Semitic rants were notorious", according to a biographer of Coco Chanel. The first substantial house was built in the 17th century. In March 2007, having served in the Ministry of Defence as Assistant CDS for four years, he handed over responsibility for 50,000 reservists and 138,000 cadets to Major General Simon Lalor, in the wake of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal in which Westminster was also implicated. [citation needed], The Duke was also Director of Claridge's Hotel from 1981 until 1993, and of Marcher Sound from 1992 until 1997. He was as extravagant with her as he was with all of his lovers. Source: Cherkashina, L. Natalia Goncharova: a happy marriage. The business was headed by the 6th Duke himself, who was Chairman of the Trustees. [15] In her book The Light of the Common Day, Lady Diana Cooper reminisces back to 1 September 1939. [22] He retired from the Armed Forces in 2012. He was Director of the International Students Trust from 1976 until 1993, Pro-Chancellor of Keele University from 1986 until 1993, Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University from 1992 until 2002, and first appointed Chancellor of the University of Chester in 2005, serving until his death. He then attended Ellesmere College, Shropshire, from 2000 to 2009. 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. In the early 19th century it was replaced by a much larger house designed by William Porden. The Duke, known for his pro-German sympathies, was reportedly instrumental in influencing his former mistress, Coco Chanel, to use her association with Winston Churchill to broker a bilateral peace agreement between the British and the Nazis. Edward George Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1904–1909), Burke's Peerage & Baronetage (Various editions), Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage (Various editions), Leslie Field: "Bendor – The Golden Duke of Westminster" (1983), This page was last edited on 22 September 2020, at 12:26. - 5th ed. The main residence had its walls hung with master works, paintings by Goya, Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Hals, and Velázquez. 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. However, the chief jailor responsible for the snail diet, a Moslem cleric nicknamed "Holy Joe", was hanged to general approval. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO, DSO was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world. His sisters include Lady Edwina Grosvenor, a prison reformer and philanthropist. The Duke died on 9 August 2016 after suffering a heart attack. [16][17][18] Promoted to brigadier on 17 January 2000, he was also appointed Honorary Colonel of the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry on 14 May 2001. [4], His large estate attracted then-record death duties of £18m, which took between July 1953 and August 1964 to pay off to the Inland Revenue.[21]. He became Duke of Westminster on 9 August 2016, on the death of his father Gerald Grosvenor. [17], Sorted by (historical) entity at time of grant, Alexander Petrovich Doroshenko(son of Petro Doroshenko) was the father of Ekaterina Alexandrovna (1720—? [4] Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 1 April 1992, he subsequently commanded the North Irish Horse, the Cheshire Yeomanry Squadron, founded by his ancestors, and the Queen's Own Yeomanry. Disguised as a deliveryman, Westminster appeared at Chanel’s apartment with an enormous bouquet of flowers. [6][8], As the Earl Grosvenor he joined the Territorial Army in 1970, as a trooper, family estate responsibilities having caused him to abandon a Regular Army career in the 9th/12th Lancers. 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[8] His depression worsened after reports in newspapers that he had employed the services of prostitutes. 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). [21] In 2004, he was appointed to the new post of Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets), with promotion in the rank of major-general. [8], 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. They moved to Asia in the early 1990s and to Continental Europe just before the millennium. He was awarded Full Colours in Football, and, as a member of the School's Combined Cadet Force, he obtained a BTEC First Diploma in Public Services with Distinction. Lady Constance Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 6. [5], In 2011, having already funded a feasibility study, the Duke purchased the estate at Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire, to make possible the creation of a Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) to provide the highest quality support for military casualties. [5], Despite his poor educational attainments, Westminster was given several honorary degrees and fellowships (listed below) in later life and took an outward looking interest in youth. 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