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19 de jul. de 2024 · In 1957 the house was taken over by the Grosvenor Office as an extension to their premises at No. 66 Brook Street and No. 53 Davies Street. The upper floors were from 1958 to 1964 occupied as a flat by Colonel Robert Grosvenor, later fifth Duke of Westminster.
Hace 6 días · His friend told him Sir Robert Grosvenor. 'I don't know,' said the first, 'what estate Sir Robert has, but he ought to have a very good one; for nobody lives beyond him in the whole town.'" As Congreve was being rowed in a wherry up the Thames, at Millbank, the boatman remarked that, owing to its bad foundation, Peterborough House had sunk a story.
Hace 3 días · For three hundred years the Grosvenor family has owned large estates in what are now some of the most valuable parts of Westminster. These estates were acquired in 1677 through the marriage of Sir Thomas Grosvenor with Mary Davies, the infant daughter and heiress of a scrivener in the City of London.
Hace 4 días · Opposite, on the Grosvenor Chapel's south wall, is a bronze bust to the 2nd Duke as well as a memorials to Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor, who was killed in the First World War, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Dukes of Westminster.
19 de jul. de 2024 · Lord R.G. Grosvenor inherited the title of Duke of Westminster, Sir Basil Brooke was created Viscount Brookeborough and Victor Cooke was created as a life peer Baron Cooke of Islandreagh - he is the only former Senator who is still politically active at the time of writing.
10 de jul. de 2024 · Fermanagh & South Tyrone recorded the second highest turnout of the election in Northern Ireland. In 1979, on his father's death, Hamilton became the fifth Duke of Abercorn, and sat in the House of Lords until the 1999 reforms.
16 de jul. de 2024 · A police commissioner will be asked to look into an "unacceptable security lapse" that enabled protesters to disrupt the Duke and Duchess of Westminster's wedding, which was attended by...
