Son of the 2nd Marquess. Created Duke in 1874, mainly it seems for owning large chunks of London and being the head of the richest family in the UK. Country seat in Cheshire.
From this Calendar we know that in 1882 he was the President of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.
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Duke of Westminster, 1st, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor
Hugh Lupus, first Duke of Westminster, K.G., lessor to the Improved Industria...
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Duke of Westminster, 1st, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor
St John the Evangelist Westminster This burial ground, having been closed for...
London Temperance Hospital. This foundation stone of the new wing was laid i...
Died while Primewarden of the Fishmongers Company.
Chairman of Committee for letting the City lands of the Corporation of London when the monument to Temple Bar was erected in 1880. Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894 and a Deputy...
Deputy of the ward of the parish of St Mary the Virgin Aldermanbury. The Story of a Victorian House has some details on Sir Robert since he once lived at Laurel House near Bexley, Kent. He was Chai...
The Netherlands were invaded by Nazi Germany on the 10th May 1940. Queen Wilhelmina had planned to go to the southern province of Zeeland to co-ordinate resistance, but when it came under attack fr...
