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
Thrust into a corner of the facade and hidden by a bay tree this plaque has t...
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...
Balloonist and politician. Born London to a wealthy Bengal civil servant. Financed the 1836 balloon voyage from Vauxhall Gardens to Weilburg in Germany, on which he was a passenger. This set a reco...
Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, financier and Conservative politician. Founded the Westminster Tree Trust.
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919. Probably the same person as the Councillor T. M. McGiff, J.P. who was on the East Ham Corporation Public Health Commi...
Church warden of Holy Trinity, Sloane Square in 1889.
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