Family and Education
b. 27 Jan. 1795, 1st. s. of Robert Grosvenor†, 2nd Earl Grosvenor, and Hon. Eleanor Egerton, da. and h. of Thomas Egerton†, 1st Bar. Grey de Wilton (afterwards 1st earl of Wilton); bro. of Hon. Robert Grosvenor*. educ. Westminster 1806-12; Christ Church, Oxf. 1812; European tour 1815-17. m. 16 Sept. 1819, Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson Gower, da. of George Granville Leveson Gower†, 2nd mq. of Stafford, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 9da. (1 d.v.p.). styled. Earl Grosvenor 1831-45. suc. fa. as 2nd mq. of Westminster 17 Feb. 1845; KG 6 July 1857. d. 31 Oct. 1869.
Offices Held
Ld. steward of household Mar. 1850 – Feb. 1852; PC 22 Mar. 1852.
Ld. lt. Cheshire 1845 – 68.
Capt. R. Flints. militia 1818; maj. commdt. Flints. yeomanry 1831.
Notes
Access to the Grosvenor papers, privately held at Eaton Hall, is gratefully acknowledged. For detailed accounts of Grosvenor’s life see G. Huxley, Lady Elizabeth and the Grosvenors and Victorian Duke; and M.J. Hazelton-Swales, ‘Urban Aristocrats’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981).
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Commons 1820-1832
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GROSVENOR, Richard, Visct. Belgrave (1795-1869)
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