At his death he was said to be the richest man in Britain.'. GMB's Susanna Reid forced to change dress that was too 'racy' for morning TV. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor died at the Royal. Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November 1977) is a British art historian, writer and former art dealer. Grosvenor Square was the site of many of Londons most prestigious mansions, and would be the home of the embassy of the United States from 1960 to 2018. Robert Pawlikowski, 54, was last seen at 10.30am today. The sixth Duke of Westminster was buried in the Old Churchyard at St Mary's Church, Eccleston, in the Grosvenor family plot. The elder, Lady Ursula, married twice and had children, but the younger, Lady Mary, never married, and despite the lack of a ducal title, managed to keep up the princely lifestyle of her forebears, as manager of large estates in Kenya, South Africa and the Scottish Highlands, until her death in 2000. Leila Borrington, 23 was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday after her three-year-old stepson, Harvey was found 'unconscious' in their family home with severe head injuries. [18] In late 1943 or early 1944, Chanel and her current lover, Nazi espionage agent Baron Hans Gunther von Dinklage, undertook such an assignment. [7], Lord Grosvenor had taken a commission with the Royal Horse Guards and was in South Africa serving in the Second Boer War, when in December 1899 he succeeded his grandfather. A massive colonnade was added later in the century, and in 1889 Grosvenor House became one of the first electrified buildings in the country. 29)One of the worlds biggest touts used an offshore firm to avoid tax on profits from reselling Adele and Ed Sheeran tickets. A beloved Edinburgh pub is famous for its unique signage at its front doorwhich has divided tourists after a Scots local shared a picture of it. My ancestors came from Germany to the American colonies in the 18th century and I am a proud Virginian. With a net wealth of 10.054bn, according to the Sunday Times, he and his family rank as the 12th richest in the UK. But the precise details of their early years in Cheshire are hard to pin down. Both have been part of the extensive portfolio of the Grosvenor family for centuries. The constituency's . Kenny Reilly gangland killers told to "rot in hell" by grieving sister after Hampden banner stunt. [10] The war ended in May 1902. This followed a private service on Friday, August 12, held just three days after his death. She was there with her dear friend Vera Bate who was a friend of Bend'or. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO, DSO (familiarly "Bendor"; 19 March 1879 - 19 July 1953) was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the sixth Duke of Westminster. [17] His father's eldest half-brother is Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton.[18]. They had subsisted on little more than the snails in which the region abounded, but said their captors had not been overly cruel. The Earl of Wilton is heir presumptive to the Marquessate. 4)Twitter and Facebook received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that can be traced back to Russian state financial institutions. "I hope," Duff spat, "that by tomorrow he will know that we are his most implacable and remorseless enemies". In 1794, he had married the heiress of one of the other leading aristocratic clans in the northwest, Lady Eleanor Egerton of Wilton, and their second son would later adopt the Egerton surname, and inherit the title Earl of Wilton and the estates centred on Heaton Park (now in Greater Manchestersee Dukes of Bridgewater). Edward George Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1904-1909), [1] who died aged 4, after an operation for appendicitis. He inherited the estate of Eaton Hall in Cheshire and land in Mayfair and Belgravia . 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Eaton Square in Belgravia, which is owned by the Duke of Westminster. His affair with Chanel lasted ten years. This is on Park Lane, the road bordering Hyde Park, one of the best addresses in the city. Ash Regan claimed a devolved parliament could set up a new central bank and ditch the pound just months after a vote for indepenence. Driver who ploughed Range Rover into woman in horror Boxing Day crash avoids jail. Hugh Grosvenor is set to inherit his family's . Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster. The tax advantages of UK trusts such as these have been gradually whittled away. The Ebury barons, with their seat at Moor Park in Hertfordshire, would continue into the 20th century, and inherited the Wilton earldom in 1999 (though today they live in Australia). He was subsequently promoted colonel and on 26 May 1917, he was named honorary colonel of the regiment. Millions of pounds from the Queens private estate has been invested in a Cayman Islands fund, Prince Charless estate made a big profit, Extensive offshore dealings by Donald Trumps cabinet members, advisers and donors, a firm co-owned by Vladimir Putins son-in-law to the shipping group of the US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, Twitter and Facebook received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that can be traced back to Russian state financial institutions, managed by the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeaus chief moneyman, Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton avoided taxes on a 17m jet, $450m offshore trust that has sheltered the wealth of Lord Ashcroft, man managing Angolas sovereign wealth fund invested it in projects he stood to profit from, Apple secretly moved parts of its empire to Jersey, The billions in tax refunds by the Isle of Man and Malta to the owners of private jets and luxury yachts, Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon's attacks on Hillary Clinton, secret loan and alliance used by the London-listed multinational Glencore, complex offshore webs used by two Russian billionaires, BBC hit sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys used a web of offshore companies to avoid tax, Prominent Brexit campaigners have put money offshore, ex-minister who defended tax avoidance has a Bahamas trust fund, Dukes of Westminster pumped millions into secretive offshore firms, boasted of 'superb penetration' at the top of the UK government, 'persistent failures' on terrorist financing and money laundering rules, Democratic donor built up a vast $8bn private wealth fund, schemes used to avoid tax on UK property deals, celebrities, from Harvey Weinstein to Shakira, private equity firm tried to extract 890m from a struggling care home operator, Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, is the longtime owner of an offshore firm. Coco became a skilled fisherwoman on the River Laxford, which runs through the estate. Seventh duke: born 1991. "[citation needed], During the run-up to the Second World War, he supported various right-wing and anti-Semitic causes, including the Right Club. A picture taken at the scene shows at least three police vehicles and a marked van in attendance while a uniformed officer stands guard at the crossroads junction. 19) An ex-minister who defended tax avoidance has a Bahamas trust fund. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire and Lord Lieutenant of the newly formed County of London, from 1888. The earlier life of the 5th Duke of Westminster gives a slightly different twist to this story so far: born in 1910, he was quite far down the line of succession, and concentrated his political interests on his mothers estates in Northern Ireland, living at Ely Lodge on Lough Erne and serving as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1955-64, and High Sheriff of County Fermanagh. But the Grosvenors are not native to Cheshire: the family name is unmistakably of Norman origin as descendants of the great (or fat) hunter, probably a master of the hunt in the service of the dukes of Normandy. The Grosvenor spokesman said, after checking the records, no evidence had been found to suggest that the trustees asked for any such dispensation from the Bermuda Monetary Authority in 1999. The 1st Duke of Westminster is known for his horses (and his only formal government appointment was in fact Master of the Horse, in 1880, though this was by now just a ceremonial role). It is the most recent dukedom conferred on someone not related to the British royal family. 16) Stars of theBBC hit sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys used a web of offshore companies to avoid tax. Winston Churchill, who joined the couple on a fishing holiday there in May, 1927, wrote: This a very agreeable house in a Highland valley. The name "Grosvenor" turns up a lot in Chester, and was even possibly "borrowed" for a well-known treasure scam which also involved "Sherlock Holmes": The heir, 'Earl Grosvenor', predeceased his father, so young 'Bendor' took over as 2 nd Duke and ruled over the Grosvenor estates (estimated in 1900 at about 6 million pounds, or over 700 million in today's money) for the next half-century. A prominent art historian and former Conservative adviser has cut ties with the Tories, saying that it is time to "destroy" the party.Bendor Grosvenor, who is a co-presenter of BBC4's Britain's. Thanks to careful planning by his predecessors, the 26-year-old inherited the sprawling Grosvenor Group without having to pay the 40% death duties imposed on most British taxpayers. The 6th Duke had reconnected the Grosvenor family with the Northwest of England, but he and his two sisters also connected their family more closely with the higher aristocracy (since several of his predecessors had married young when they were still mere gentlemen, the now numerous dowager duchessesthere were three in 1979came from more modest backgrounds; the 2nd Dukes widow Anne outlasted them all, passing away in 2003!). In 2009 he proved the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Charles Edward Stuart by Maurice Quentin de La Tour was in fact a portrait of Charles' brother Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York. After a brief visit back home, he returned in February 1900 to serve with the Imperial Yeomanry, as an ADC to Lord Roberts and Lord Milner. It was quite unexpected when he died suddenly there in August 2016. The 6 th Duke of Westminster would later defend the social rented . Dan Snow and Duke Of Westminster's daughter wed in secret. The duke loved the area so much that in 1926 he bought Rosehall, another sporting estate in east Sutherland that belonged to William Ewing Gilmour, a textile magnate, who died in 1923. In March 2007, Grosvenor announced it was buying out Vesta and Nakar for 40m. Initially, Hugh was called Hugh Lupus. The papers reveal a number of other offshore entities, some of which held investments in Asia. Hugh "Bendor" Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster was born on 19 March 1879. At all events it stuck, and my husband's friends never called him anything but Bendor or Benny". As a nineteen-year-old, he briefly attended a French boarding school run by the Count de Mauny, who was rumoured to have made sexual advances towards some of its pupils. This horses curious name recalls the most infamous lawsuit in the history of heraldry, from 1389, when two families, Grosvenor and Scrope (of Bolton Castle in West Yorkshire), both claimed the same simple coat-of-arms, a gold diagonal strip (a bend or) on a blue (or azure) field. Baroness Howard de Walden and family, 4.316bn 4. The 1st Duke of Westminster continued to develop his London properties and acquired a new rural residence to escape the filthy cityone of the most splendid of all, Cliveden, in Buckinghamshire, purchased from his mother-in-law (who was also his aunt), the widow of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland. The legendary Ibrox striker was at Hampden on Sunday as his former team proved second best once again. There is a Fifth Duke of Westminsters Settlement, created in 1965, and the sixth duke, who died last year, created two more. The courtesy title of the eldest son and heir to the Duke is Earl Grosvenor. The marriage was not long a happy one, and within five years Henrietta, Lady Grosvenor, was embroiled in a scandalous affair with the Kings younger brother, the Duke of Cumberland. (images from Wikimedia Commons or my own photos), I am a historian of monarchy and the high aristocracy of Europe. In the 1930s he developed extreme right-wing opinions and became a member of several anti-Semitic organizations including the Anglo-German Fellowship. His tall, diffident,. Jim Goodwin can right Aberdeen wrong at Dundee United as incoming boss looks to overcome away day anguish. British media said his 25-year old son, Hugh Grosvenor, will inherit the title and fortune. Burial. The estate has been abandoned for 52 years, but photos of its interior reveal that touches of Chanel's iconic design remain. MEET the new Duke of Westminster Hugh Grosvenor, who on his father s death has instantly inherited a chunk of Scotland including three mountains. That year, a member of the Appleby marketing team visited Jeremy Moore, the head of tax at Grosvenor Group, and another colleague. The family's first hereditary honour was a baronetcy conferred by James I in 1622, largely to raise revenue . 28) Trumps close allyRobert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, is the longtime owner of an offshore firm. Massive sunbathing walrus spotted relaxing on rock on the Scottish coast. Hugh Richard Arthur 2nd Duke of Westminster "Bendor" Grosvenor, 1879 - 1953 Hugh Richard Arthur 2nd Duke of Westminster Grosvenor was born on month day 1879, at birth place, to Victor Alexander Grosvenor and Sibell Mary Lady Grosvenor (born Lumley). Our policy is to uphold the highest standards of business practice. [3], His large estate attracted then-record death duties of 18m, which took between July 1953 and August 1964 to pay off to the Inland Revenue.[22]. He was the son of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, and Lady Sibell Lumley, the daughter of the 9th Earl of Scarborough. He completed the familys political transition to the Whig party and served in the government of Lord John Russell as Lord Steward of the Household in 1850. [15], An illustration of both Westminster's extravagance and orchestrated technique in the courting of women has endured in the form of various apocryphal stories. 15) Thecomplex offshore webs used by two Russian billionairesto buy stakes in Arsenal and Everton football clubs. After his dalliance with Coco Chanel, he was fascinated by the Brazilian Aime de Heeren, who was not interested in marrying him, but to whom he gave significant jewellery, once part of the French Crown Jewels. The name is a jovial reference to the ancient lost armorials of the family: Azure, a bend or, which were awarded to the Scrope family in the famous case of 1389 heard before the Court of Chivalry, known as Scrope v Grosvenor. This was the view of contemporaries, and previous biographers have reinforced it. The new Duke of Westminster was passed on to the late Duke's son. The duke married four times and was divorced three times. "Le Grand Veneur" literally means "the Master Huntsman" in French, an elevated title in William's 11th-century French court. Just four months after I revealed their clandestine romance, TV historian Dan Snow and glamorous heiress Lady Edwina Grosvenor have . Duke of Westminster is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 18)Prominent Brexit campaigners have put money offshore. The new royal residence, Buckingham Palace, lay between Mayfair and Belgravia, and formed an effective beating heart of the new aristocratic quarter of west London. 19 Jul 1953 (aged 74) Cheshire, England. Duke of Westminster. [12] On 1 April 1908, he was named honorary lieutenant-colonel of the 16th Battalion, the London Regiment, a post he held until 1915. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The arms of the city of Westminster were added to his ancient coat-of-arms (a golden portcullis, the golden cross of St. Edward, and two Tudor roses). The Earl moved his own London residence from Millbank House (on the Thames) in 1805 to Mayfair, to a house he purchased from the Duke of Gloucester which he renamed Grosvenor House. The title Marquess of Westminster was bestowed upon Robert Grosvenor, the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, at the coronation of William IV in 1831. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. As a result, his son spoke with a Northern Irish accent which certainly made him stand out in Westminster. Because the Bermuda company was to be controlled by trusts, Appleby would need to follow standard procedure and disclose the names of their beneficiaries and other basic information to the regulator. Born in 1991, he became Duke of Westminster in August 2016 after his father - Gerald Grosvenor, the sixth Duke - died of a heart attack. The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family, 10.295bn 2. The 2nd Duke of Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor (known as 'Bend'Or'), is usually seen as a super-rich landowner and spoilt playboy. View more posts. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. [16] He is also of Swiss and Dutch heritage. Nevertheless, the Marquess continued the family tradition of serving as Mayor of Chester, and for many years Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire. His prominence in the House of Commons as MP for Chester earned him a baronetcy in 1622. For centuries, the Grosvenors were not that different to the hundreds of county families who dominated the shires of England for most of its history; but due to a fortunate marriage in the late 17th century, and savvy business planning in the century that followed, they were drawn into the first rank of Britains power elite, so much so thataccording to the legendQueen Victoria felt compelled to make her richest subject a duke so that she would not be embarrassed sitting down with him for tea. 19 Mar 1879. Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November 1977) is a British art dealer and art historian.The grandson of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury and also of Swiss heritage, Bendor was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia where he completed his PhD entitled "The Politics of Foreign Policy: Lord Derby and the There is no public register listing the names, beneficiaries or holdings of any UK trusts, despite the fact such vehicles control vast tracts of land and property in Britain. St Mary's Church, Eccleston, where all the Dukes of Westminster are buried including the sixth Duke, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor. Tragic hillwalker and dog who plunged 100ft in Glencoe to have ashes scattered together. [8], In 2017, he discovered the "lost portrait" of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham at Pollok House, Glasgow, Scotland. No family member has received any benefit derived from these but, as UK residents, if they ever did then they would be fully liable to tax in this country. In a fax dated 9 November, Appleby promised to revert to the BMA to determine what they will give in on, saying it had already obtained from the BMA that they have indicated they will not require a personal declaration from the duke. [8] He resigned his commission in December 1901,[9] and was appointed captain of the Cheshire (Earl of Chester's) Imperial Yeomanry the following month. Disguised as a deliveryman, Westminster appeared at Chanel's apartment with an enormous bouquet of flowers. Now that the winter months are behind us, why not celebrate by taking a trip to a secluded beach that is a perfect place for a seaside stroll with a loved one or by yourself. His first major art discovery was a mis-catalogued portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence being sold at a London auction in 2003 as a work by Lawrence's pupil George Henry Harlow. The 2nd Duke died in 1953. According to his Times obituary (21 July 1953), "he was busy up to the day of his death in great schemes of afforestation in Cheshire, in the Lake District, and in Scotland. The heir, Earl Grosvenor, predeceased his father, so young Bendor took over as 2nd Duke and ruled over the Grosvenor estates (estimated in 1900 at about 6 million pounds, or over 700 million in todays money) for the next half-century. His designs were also inspired by the Gothic, but much more restrained than the previous building at Eaton, and were seen by most as a lot more tasteful, and certainly more austere (described in once source as Wagnerian). The marriage of Hugh Lupus Grosvenortaking his name from the ancient family founderto Lady Constance Leveson-Gower, his mothers niece, is illustrative of the closing of ranks in the Victorian erain fact the second son of the Leveson-Gower family had also inherited large estates from the Egerton family and taken the name. There is no heir to the Dukedom of Westminster. In Europe, MEPs have been pushing for each member state to improve transparency by introducing public registers of trusts. Gerald had had a long military career, as lieutenant-colonel, then a Yeoman of the Guard from 1952. Frantic search launched for man reported missing from Aberdeen in Audi. Westminster was a parliamentary constituency in the Parliament of England to 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain 1707-1800 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. 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Janette Henry's vehicle hit Eleanor Ballantyne and her relatives as they made their way to a restaurant in Bearsden, in East Dunbartonshire. Despite his familys wealth, Hugh has remained modest. LADY Mary Grosvenor, who has died aged 89, was the younger daughter of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, known as "Bendor" and one of the richest men in the world until his death in 1953. Once you clean your machine this way, it's said to keep the mould away for good - leaving your clothes fresh and clean. But the papers show that not all the familys wealth was managed onshore. The present holder of the title is Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke, who inherited the dukedom on 9 August 2016 on the death of his father, Gerald. The second daughter married media royalty, history presenter Dan Snow, while the much younger two children, Hugh and Viola remain unmarried. Much of this fortune is still based in London and Cheshire properties, but the Grosvenor Group has expanded globally, and includes a surprising number of office towers in San Francisco and Vancouver, and shopping malls in Sweden, France, Shanghai and Liverpool. He joined the anti-semitic Right Club and the Parliamentary Peace Aims Group in 1939, claiming to be in touch with "Nazi moderates." He also headed up the committee that organised the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, and presided over a number of organisations concerned with regulating the hunt and preserving the environment. Lochmore was a grand Victorian building, and served as the main house on the Reay estate. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Grosvenor fa. His ruse was only uncovered after Chanel's assistant offered "the delivery boy" a tip. Applebys officer noted: They do not have too many offshore holdings as they have to be very careful reputationally, as the property group is owned by trusts for the Duke of Westminsters family.. 10)Apple secretly moved parts of its empire to Jerseyafter a row over its tax affairs. Body of woman found on Aberdeenshire beach as police launch investigation into death. The title is now held by Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. Bendor Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke, and Chanel became lovers and spent many holidays together at Stack Lodge and another nearby house at Lochmore. The international property empire of the dukes of Westminster pumped dividends worth millions of pounds into secretive companies in Bermuda and Panama, the Paradise Papers reveal. The former Dons boss looks set to return to management shortly after leaving Pittodrie. The 29-year-old aristocrat is also Prince George's godfather. The oldest trust, simply referred to as ADWSLF in the data, was settled, or created, in 1953 by the second duke upon his death. The family MPs had traditionally been Tories, and Sir Richard was for the most part a supporter of the Tory ministries of the 1750s, though he supported the Whigs in their ambitious pursuit of a conclusion to the Seven Years War under Pitt the Elder, and was moved into the House of Lords as Baron Grosvenor of Eaton in 1761. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO, DSO (familiarly "Bendor"; 19 March 1879 - 19 July 1953) was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world. The Duke, known for his pro-German sympathies, was reportedly instrumental in influencing his former mistress, Coco Chanel, to use her association with Winston Churchill to broker a bilateral peace agreement between the British and the Nazis. Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster (born 29 January 1991), styled as Earl Grosvenor until August 2016, is a British aristocrat, billionaire, businessman, and owner of Grosvenor Group.He became Duke of Westminster on 9 August 2016, on the death of his father Gerald, 6th Duke of Westminster.. As of 2021, the Duke and his family were placed 12th on the Sunday Times Rich List . He reportedly hoped to ruin the Liberal Party through Beauchamp. Until 1999, about half of the shares in a subsidiary that ran Grosvenors North American and Australian operations were controlled by tax haven companies. I love heraldry and genealogy. The duke lavished Chanel with extravagant jewels, costly art and a home in London's prestigious Mayfair district. One of these, Richard Grosvenor, married three times within this social set; his wives had names familiar to those who live in the northwest: Cholmondeley, Wilbraham and Warbuton. Lord of London: a biography of the 2nd Duke of Westminster. The prisoners attempted to stop the killings but failed. Ancestor Sir Thomas Grosvenor married heiress Mary Davies and acquired what was then marshland in 1677. 24) A topDemocratic donor built up a vast $8bn private wealth fundin Bermuda. Prince William and Kate, as well as Prince Harry, are regular visitors to Grosvenor properties including their boar hunting lodge in Spain. 1)Millions of pounds from the Queens private estate has been invested in a Cayman Islands fund and some of her money went to a retailer accused of exploiting poor families. Grosvenors annual reports show millions in payments collected in Panama and Bermuda: a combined 1m in 1999, direct from GIHL, and a similar sum the year before. Mary Davies, Lady Grosvenor, is only normally noted in two other contexts in the histories of the family: one that she converted to Catholicism in about 1695, and the other, that she went mad about the same timeI suspect these are just two ways of telling the same story according to the biases of the time In any case, she lived a long life, until 1730, by which time her three sons, Richard, Thomas and Robert (the 4th, 5th and 6th baronets in succession) had begun developing the northern parts of Ebury Manor into a new area of fashionable residence they called Mayfair, centred around Grosvenor Square. They were divorced in 1926. While attached to the Cheshire Yeomanry he developed a prototype Rolls-Royce Armoured Car for their use. Bendor Grosvenor is an art historian and broadcaster. I teach history at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England, and am the senior editor of The Court Historian, the journal of the Society for Court Studies. 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