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...
Chairman of the statue Committee at Woolwich town hall in 1905.
Sarah Reddish was a Bolton-based trade unionist and suffragette, who was active in the cooperative movement. A supporter of women running for local elections as a springboard to gaining national vo...
Political group. William Morris had belonged to H.M. Hyndman's Socialist League, but when its views became too extreme for him, he founded the Hammersmith Socialist Society which met at his home, K...
Suffragette. Born in Lewisham. As a child, she survived poliomyelitis and had to use crutches or a tricycle, modified as a wheelchair. She was active in the women's suffrage movement and founded th...
