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Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899) was the son of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster

File:RGrosvenorStatChst.JPGRichard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an England aristocrat who continued the development of his family's extensive property holdings in London....
 and Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower.

He married, firstly, Lady Constance Gertrude Leveson-Gower, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland

George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland Order of the Garter was the son of George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland....
 and Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard, on 28 April 1852. He married, secondly, Hon. Katherine Caroline Cavendish, daughter of William George Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham and Henrietta Frances Lascelles, on 29 June 1882.

He was created Duke of Westminster
Duke of Westminster

The title Duke of Westminster was created by Victoria of the United Kingdom in 1874 and bestowed upon Hugh Grosvenor, the 3rd Marquess of Westminster....
 on 27 February 1874, the most recent person neither born into nor related by marriage to the British Royal Family
British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
 to be advanced to the highest degree of the peerage.






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Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899) was the son of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster

File:RGrosvenorStatChst.JPGRichard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an England aristocrat who continued the development of his family's extensive property holdings in London....
 and Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower.

He married, firstly, Lady Constance Gertrude Leveson-Gower, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland

George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland Order of the Garter was the son of George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland....
 and Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard, on 28 April 1852. He married, secondly, Hon. Katherine Caroline Cavendish, daughter of William George Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham and Henrietta Frances Lascelles, on 29 June 1882.

He was created Duke of Westminster
Duke of Westminster

The title Duke of Westminster was created by Victoria of the United Kingdom in 1874 and bestowed upon Hugh Grosvenor, the 3rd Marquess of Westminster....
 on 27 February 1874, the most recent person neither born into nor related by marriage to the British Royal Family
British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
 to be advanced to the highest degree of the peerage. He had succeeded as 3rd Marquess of Westminster and 4th Earl Grosvenor in 1869. By the time of his elevation the family's London property in Mayfair, Belgravia
Belgravia

Belgravia is a district of central London in the City of Westminster, situated to the south-west of Buckingham Palace. Belgravia is approximately bounded by Knightsbridge to the north , Grosvenor Place and Buckingham Palace Road to the east, Pimlico Road to the south, and Sloane Street to the west....
 and Pimlico
Pimlico

Pimlico is a small area of central London in the City of Westminster that is primarily residential and well known for its collection of small hotels and impressive Regency architecture....
 had made it the richest family in the United Kingdom. He had his main country seat, Eaton Hall
Eaton Hall (Cheshire)

Eaton Hall is the country house of the Duke of Westminster which is set within a large estate south of the village of Eccleston, Cheshire, Cheshire, England ....
 in Cheshire, reconstructed at enormous expense. He was one of the most successful British race horse owners of all time.

He spent 22 years in the House of Commons
British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
 before he inherited the Marquessate, elected as a member of the Liberal Party. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire
Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire. Since 1689, all Lords Lieutenant have also been Custos Rotulorum of Cheshire....
 and of London
Lord Lieutenant of the County of London

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of the County of London.The post was created in 1889, absorbing the duties of the Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, and abolished in 1965, when it was merged with that of Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex to become the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London....
.

He was appointed honorary colonel of the Cheshire Yeomanry
Cheshire Yeomanry

The Cheshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment that can trace its history back to 1797 when Sir John Fleming Leicester of Tabley raised a county regiment of light cavalry in response to the growing fears of invasion from Napoleonic France....
 on February 21, 1891.

Thoroughbred horse racing


Hugh Grosvenor inherited Eaton Stud and was highly successful as a Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds best known for its use in Thoroughbred horse race. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed....
 breeder as well as on the track
Race track

A race track is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals , automobiles, motorcycles or sportsperson. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses....
. A major name in racing, among his most famous horses was the Epsom Derby
Epsom Derby

The Derby Stakes, known colloquially as The Derby or internationally as the Epsom Derby, is considered one of the most prestigious flat thoroughbred horse races in the world....
 winner Bend Or
Bend Or

Bend Or was a United Kingdom Thoroughbred horse racing who won the 1880 edition of the Epsom Derby. His regular jockey Frederick J. Archer, winner of thirteen consecutive British flat racing Champion Jockey, said Bend Or was probably the greatest horse he had ever ridden....
, the undefeated Triple Crown
Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
 champion, Ormonde and a second Triple Crown champion, Flying Fox
Flying Fox (horse)

Flying Fox was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Thoroughbred horse racing who won the 1899 Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. He was sired by Orme who in turn was sired by Ormonde , the 1886 Triple Crown winner....
.

It is believed that the character "Colonel Ross" in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
 short story Silver Blaze
Silver Blaze

"Silver Blaze", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of the twelve in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes....
 is modeled on Hugh Grosvenor.

Family

1st Duke of Westminster
He was the father of sixteen children by two wives, and the second to fifth dukes were all grandsons of his through three different sons.

Children by Lady Constance Gertrude Leveson-Gower:

  • Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor (d. 25 March 1928)
  • Lady Beatrice Constance Grosvenor (d. 12 January 1911), married Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham
    Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham

    Charles Compton William Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician who served as the last Master of the Buckhounds....
     in 1877.
  • Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (28 April 1853 – 22 January 1884)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Arthur Hugh Grosvenor (31 May 1860 – 29 April 1929)
  • Lord Henry George Grosvenor (23 June 1861 – 27 December 1914)
  • Lord Robert Edward Grosvenor (19 March 1869 – 16 June 1888)
  • Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor (9 April 1873 – 27 March 1929)
  • Captain Lord Gerald Richard Grosvenor (14 July 1874 – 10 October 1940)


Children by Hon. Katherine Caroline Cavendish:

  • Lady Mary Cavendish Grosvenor (12 May 1883 – 14 January 1959)
  • Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor
    Lord Hugh Grosvenor

    Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor was the son of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and his second wife, formerly Katherine Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster....
     (6 April 1884 – 30 October 1914)
  • Lady Helen Frances Grosvenor (5 February 1888 – 1970)
  • Lord Edward Arthur Grosvenor (27 October 1892 – 26 August 1929)


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