19 Mar 1879. Jim Goodwin can right Aberdeen wrong at Dundee United as incoming boss looks to overcome away day anguish. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The Dukes own wife, Natalia Phillips, while herself untitled, is a close relative of the Mountbattens, through their shared Romanov descent. The Duke died of coronary thrombosis at Loch More Lodge on his Scottish estate in Sutherland in 1953, aged 74, and was buried in the churchyard of Eccleston Church near Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Robert George Grosvenor, brother of the fourth Duke, lived in Northern Ireland at Ely Lodge on an island in the middle of Lough Erne. He is known for discovering a number of important lost artworks by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger. Two drivers rushed to hospital after head-on smash on Scots road. (images from Wikimedia Commons or my own photos), I am a historian of monarchy and the high aristocracy of Europe. Picture: New York Times. He employed a man locally grown and educated, Alfred Waterhouse, whose fame was established through his designs for the Manchester Town Hall, the Natural History Museum in London, and various university buildings in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. [10] The war ended in May 1902. Historical records matching Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster Gerard Grosvenor in MyHeritage family trees (Heywood Web Site) Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster in MyHeritage family trees (Keeling Web Site) Gerald Cavendish 6th Duke Of Westminster Grosvenor in MyHeritage family trees (Hunt Web Site) 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. . Coco got three fish yesterday.. Just four months after I revealed their clandestine romance, TV historian Dan Snow and glamorous heiress Lady Edwina Grosvenor have . Since 1984, they have been subject to a 10-yearly tax charge, although there are exemptions for agricultural land and trading businesses. A leak of 13.4m files, including documents from the archives of the offshore law firm Appleby, combined with public information from the UK companies register, has brought to light key parts of the structure used to manage the seventh dukes fortune - estimated at 9.5bn in the Sunday Times rich list. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, grandson of the first duke, was known to family and friends as Bendor and was a lover of Coco Chanel. 19 Jul 1953 (aged 74) Cheshire, England. 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). In 2014, after almost a century owned by the Grosvenor family, it was put on the market. She and her husband, the prominent Conservative Duff Cooper, were lunching at London's Savoy Grill with the Duke of Westminster. in 1907. The Grosvenor fa. Stock photos, 360 images, vectors and videos. Their Senussi captors attempted to run away but were gunned down by the enraged British rescuers. [14]:3637. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Join thousands in getting the latest Scotland Now stories sent straight to your inbox. Economic historians have analyzed the Grosvenor Estate, but this thesis is not concerned with Ash Regan claimed a devolved parliament could set up a new central bank and ditch the pound just months after a vote for indepenence. The result is only a little better, especially with the stark contrast of the towering chapel and stable buildings. Hugh Grosvenor is set to inherit his family's . Police were alerted to the incident at around 7am on Tuesday February, 28. [12], In 2013 he discovered the lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay at Gosford House, the home of the Earl of Wemyss near Edinburgh. Lochmore was a grand Victorian building, and served as the main house on the Reay estate. The 1st Earl Grosvenor did not neglect his northern duties, however, and married a Vernon from Staffordshire, served as Mayor of Chester in 1759, and in the late 1760s acquired the manors of Belgrave and Eccleston which bordered his Eaton estate. 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. But the precise details of their early years in Cheshire are hard to pin down. His sister Lady Tamara is married to Edward van Cutsem, brother of fellow godparent William van Cutsem, and his mother, the Duchess of Westminster, is Prince Williams godmother. As a result, his son spoke with a Northern Irish accent which certainly made him stand out in Westminster. Historical records matching William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster William Grosvenor 3rd Duke of Westminster in FamilySearch Family Tree William Grosvenor in MyHeritage family trees (Nahum Web Site) William Grosvenor, Iii Duque De Westminster in MyHeritage family trees (Volvemberg Web Site) Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough, His first marriage was held on 16 February 1901, when he married, Lady Ursula Mary Olivia Grosvenor (21 February 1902 1978), married, firstly, William Patrick Filmer-Sankey in 1924 and was divorced in 1940. His younger brothers were also political, though divided: Thomas Egerton, Earl of Wilton as a Tory, and Lord Robert, a Whig who was passionate about solidifying the Church of England through reform (and consequently opposed Irish home rule). During the event held at Eaton Hall, guests were treated to a fireworks display and a dinner featuring a tasting plate of half a scotch egg, smoked salmon and Morecambe Bay potted shrimps. Keep reading for a look inside the famed manor. 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. Detective Inspector Graeme Dursley was speaking at the inquiry in Edinburgh today, March 1. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. COCO Chanel met Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke of Westminster, at a dinner in Monte Carlo in 1923. The second daughter married media royalty, history presenter Dan Snow, while the much younger two children, Hugh and Viola remain unmarried. From 2011 to 2016 he carried out specialist research for, and appeared in, the BBC1 art programme Fake or Fortune?. The tax advantages of UK trusts such as these have been gradually whittled away. Bendor Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke, and Chanel became lovers and spent many holidays together at Stack Lodge and another nearby house at Lochmore. He held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire between 1907 and 1920. 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. They reveal for the first time the names, settlors and creation dates of the five UK trusts that have been used, for generations, to keep in the hands of a single family an estate that includes much of Belgravia and Mayfair in London, 165,000 acres of British countryside, hundreds of developments in North America, Australia and Hong Kong, and an island in Vancouver. Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, cousin of the second duke, left no son. There is no heir to the Dukedom of Westminster. The oldest trust, simply referred to as ADWSLF in the data, was settled, or created, in 1953 by the second duke upon his death. It was created by Queen Victoria in 1874 and bestowed upon Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster. He is best known as the co-presenter of the BBC series ' Britain's Lost Masterpieces', and has discovered a number of important paintings by prominent artists. 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). Vesta Ltd, incorporated in Bermuda in 1964, controlled Trumpet Company Ltd, another Bermuda company, which in turn held shares in GIHL. The estate has been abandoned for 52 years, but photos of its interior reveal that touches of Chanel's iconic design remain. His affair with Chanel lasted ten years. Several streets were laid out on what had been the site of the annual May Fair, and were given royal approval by the creation of a new parish and a new parish church, St. Georges Hanover Square, which became one of the most fashionable places to have a society wedding in the 18th century. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 16) Stars of theBBC hit sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys used a web of offshore companies to avoid tax. His will, published recently, suggests he created yet more trusts before his death. Grosvenor Estate owns 300 acres in some of Londons wealthiest areas. 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 He was subsequently promoted colonel and on 26 May 1917, he was named honorary colonel of the regiment. 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. A massive colonnade was added later in the century, and in 1889 Grosvenor House became one of the first electrified buildings in the country. [2], The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Dukes were each grandsons of the first. A reference to the Duke of. The Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, is known for his friendship with the Royal Family as well as his impressive bank account. [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. 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The nearly 4ft by 6ft 'about $30m' canvas belongs to the family of the 1st Earl of Iveagh. 28) Trumps close allyRobert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, is the longtime owner of an offshore firm. When he died in 1963, the title moved to still another branch of cousins, two brothers, Gerald and Robert, the 4th and 5th dukes. 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. Mark Hateley rues 'crazy' Rangers stance as Celtic reinvention has him admitting that's the difference. Next day "Bendor", telephoning to a friend, said that if there was a war it would be entirely due to the Jews and Duff Cooper. Nimesh Shah, a partner at the accountants Blick Rothenberg, said: Nowadays, trusts are used for a variety of reasons and tax is only one of those reasons. Available for both RF and RM licensing. His wife Loelia wrote in her memoirs: "Of course everybody, even his parents and sisters, would normally have addressed the baby as "Belgrave" so they may have thought that any nickname was preferable. The Ebury estate consisted of about 500 acres on the north bank of the Thames in what was then mostly undrained, swampy land west of the town of Westminster, through which ran the lower courses of the River Tyburn. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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. As a dynastic history, their story is a good example of the enduring marriage between the English provincial gentry and the economic and political power of London. He becomes the seventh Duke of Westminster and is now the second wealthiest under 30 in the world, a mere 1billion short of Wal-Mart heir Lukas Waltons fortune. 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. The children of the 6th Duke and Duchess were therefore raised in close proximity the royal family, and there are various godparentages in both directions. 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. Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, is the son of the late Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster and his wife Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, the dowager Duchess of Westminster. "Le Grand Veneur" literally means "the Master Huntsman" in French, an elevated title in William's 11th-century French court. Managed from Canada, the international wing of Grosvenor was created in 1953 when the estate made its first big expansion outside Britain by acquiring the 485-hectare Annacis Island in the middle of the Fraser river in Vancouver. He said investors in the property fund would have paid tax in their own countries and the use of jurisdictions such as Bermuda was common for these types of funds, in order to avoid investors being taxed twice. Edinburgh Street Food, which is the capital's first permanent seven-day-a-week street food market, is now open and serving up a delicious array of tasty dishes. [6] In later life, the Duke was notable for being virulently opposed to homosexuality. It thus seemed to make sense to move the Grosvenors up into this world of dukes, and it didnt hurt that the 1st Duke of Westminsters annual income had reached about 200,000 (about 25 million today). Coco Chanel and her fascinating ties to Scotland laid bare in new book. [1] This look did not last long, and the house would later be clad in a new pink faade in the 1980s, in what is described as French chteau style (hmmm). 24) A topDemocratic donor built up a vast $8bn private wealth fundin Bermuda. Through his mother's subsequent marriage after his father's death, he was the stepson of George Wyndham. Until 1999, about half of the shares in a subsidiary that ran Grosvenors North American and Australian operations were controlled by tax haven companies. Eccleston, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England Show Map. Our policy is to uphold the highest standards of business practice. Alongside it was a parallel Panama structure: Nakar Holding SA, incorporated in 1977, owned shares in Compact International Inc, which in turn held part of GIHL. 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 lavished Chanel with extravagant jewels, costly art and a home in London's prestigious Mayfair district. [6] Before becoming an art historian he worked in politics as an adviser, first to the Labour MP Tony Banks, Lord Stratford, then to the Conservative MP Hugo Swire. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster. General Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, died aged 64 on August 9 2016. He supported government reforms and the movement for temperance (shutting down several of the pubs on his own estate), which may seem unusual considering that his other great passion was horse-racing (or maybe I am being judgy?). Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's uncles and aunts: Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's aunt was Lady Elizabeth Harriet Butler Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's uncle-by-marriage was James Edward William Theobald Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster's aunt was Lady Beatrice Constance Moncreiffe Bendor Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of . The 29-year-old aristocrat is also Prince George's godfather. It wasnt until 1450 when Ralph Grosvenor married Joan Eaton and established his base at her estates at Eaton, on the west bank of the Dee a few miles south of Chester. [16] He is also of Swiss and Dutch heritage. For ground transportation he had 17 Rolls-Royce automobiles and a private train built to facilitate travel from Eaton Hall directly into London, where his townhouse Grosvenor House was located. The 2nd Duke of Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor (known as 'Bend'Or'), is usually seen as a super-rich landowner and spoilt playboy. The 1st Dukes grandson, born the year before the Derby win, was always known by his nickname Bendor, and in recent years, another member of the family (from the Ebury line) who has moved into prominence is the presenter and art historian Bendor Grosvenor. The Duke of Westminster's seats are at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, and at Abbeystead House, Lancashire. The legendary Ibrox striker was at Hampden on Sunday as his former team proved second best once again. Cliveden would become more famous in the 20th century as the country house of the Astors (and the setting for the Profumo Scandal in the 1960s). Death duties will be payable in the UK when her children inherit. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire and Lord Lieutenant of the newly formed County of London, from 1888. This followed a private service on Friday, August 12, held just three days after his death. 11) How the sportswear giantNike stays one step ahead of the taxman. It was quite unexpected when he died suddenly there in August 2016. 13)Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon's attacks on Hillary Clinton. The papers reveal a number of other offshore entities, some of which held investments in Asia. [16], In her book The Light of Common Day, Lady Diana Cooper reminisces back to 1 September 1939. . Grosvenor ( / rovnr /) is a surname derived from Hugh Le Grand Veneur, a member of a Norman French family that aided William the Conqueror in 1066. The papers reveal how reluctant Grosvenor employees were to share trust details. [1] As a dealer he specialised in Old Masters, with a particular interest in Anthony van Dyck. Frantic search launched for man reported missing from Aberdeen in Audi. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor died at the Royal. Grosvenor is a grandson of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury,[15] and fifth cousin of Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. Eventually, the offshore companies swapped their shares in GIHL for a 6.5% holding in the overall Grosvenor Group, collecting 3.7m over a seven-year period. 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). 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. 18th May 2016. 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. Anyone looking to take a break from the stress of modern life should consider applying for a unique job on the tiny Isle of Rona, which is completely off the grid. Members of the 29-year-old's family were sickened after spotting a sign reading 'Justice for Morton Eadie' being flown above the stadium during Sunday's Old Firm match in Glasgow. [7] From 2005 until 2014, he worked for Philip Mould Ltd,[6] where he made a number of significant art historical discoveries, including lost works by artists such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and Sir Anthony van Dyck, on whom he is an acknowledged specialist. He then proposed an unusual arrangement: Would it make a difference if the information requested was placed in a sealed envelope and marked for the eyes of the CEO of the BMA only so that such information does not pass through the hands of intermediaries such as ourselves?. 8)Oxford and Cambridgeandtop US universitiesinvested offshore, with some of the money going into fossil fuel industries. The traditional burial place of the Dukes is the Old Churchyard adjacent to St Mary's Church, Eccleston. British media said his 25-year old son, Hugh Grosvenor, will inherit the title and fortune. The constituency was first known to have been represented in Parliament in 1545 and continued to exist until the redistribution of seats in 1918. He purchased a home for Chanel in London's prestigious Mayfair district, and in 1927 gave her a parcel of land on the French Riviera at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin where Chanel built her villa, La Pausa. 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. [1] On 26 November 1920, the Duke became the second husband of Violet Mary Nelson (1891-1983). In late 1923, Coco Chanel met the 2nd Duke of Westminster at a dinner in Monte Carlo. 27) How aprivate equity firm tried to extract 890m from a struggling care home operatorby making it take out a costly loan. It returned two members to 1885 and one thereafter. Jamie Mines lost his arms and legs during a scaffolding accident when 33,000 volts of electricity surged through his body. Lavish life of billionaire Duke of Westminster, 31, who owns 'half of London' and has special link to William and Kate Kevin Adjei-Darko Published: 13:40, 27 Sep 2022 Updated: 14:56, 28 Sep. Robert Pawlikowski, 54, was last seen at 10.30am today. 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