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492 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. WESTMINSTER, DUKE OF. (GROSVENOR.) HUGH LUPUS GROSVENOR, K.G. 1st Duke, and a Baronet. Born Oct. 13th, 1825; succeeded his father as 3rd Mar- quess of Westminster 1869, and was created a Duke 1874. Educated at Eton, and at Balliol College, Oxford; has been Lieut.-Col. Commandant Queen's (West- minster) Rifle Volunteers since 1861, and of the Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry since 1869; sat as M.P. for Chester (L.) 1847 69; is a Magistrate for Cheshire and Virtue, notancestry^ Middlesex: married (1852) Lady Con- stance Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, K.G., and has issue, living, Sons, Victor Alexander, Earl Grosvenor (to whom Her Majesty stood sponsor, in person), b. 1853; m. 1874, Lady Sibell Mary Lumley, daughter of the 9th Earl of Scar- brough, and has issue living, a daughter, b. 18/5. Residence, Cliveden, Maidenhead. Arthur Hugh, b. 1863. Henry George, b. 1864. Robert Edward, b. 1869 Gerald Richard, b. 1874. Daughters, Elizabeth Harriet, ft. 1873. 't. 1856. Beatrice Constance, b. 1858. Margaret Evelyn, Brother living, Richard de Aquila, P.C., M.P., b. 1837- Sisters living, Eleanor, b. 1820, m. 1842, the 4th Duke of Northumberland, K.G. Mary Frances, b. 1821, m. 1842, the 6th Earl of Macclesfield. Elizabeth, b. 1824, m. 1846, the 2nd Baron Wenlock. Caroline Amelia, b. 1828, m. 1848, the 2nd Baron Leigh. Octavia, b. 1829, m. 4852, Sir M. S. Shaw-Stewart, 7th Bart. Agnes, b. 1831, m. 1st, 1858, Sir A. I. Campbell, 3rd Bart.; 2ndly, 1871, (Frank). Jane Louisa Octavia, b. 1834, m. 1st, 1855, the 4th Baron Muncaster, (see that title) ; 2ndly, 1863, (Lindsay). Theodora, b. 1840. Patron of eleven livings, St. Michael's, Chester- square, V. St. Mary's, Park-street, V. St. Saviour, V. and St. Gabriel, V. Pimlico, London. Aldford, R. St. John's, V. St. Mary's, R. Farndon, V. Eccleston, R. Pulford, R. Cheshire. Bangor-Monachorum, R. Flintshire. Creations, Baron Grosvenor, 1761, Viscount- Belgrave, and Earl Grosvenor, 1784, Marquess of Westminster, 1831, Duke of Westminster, 1874, all in the peerage of the United Kingdom. A Baronet, 1621-2. Srms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, azure, a portcullis, with chains pendent, or ; on a chief of the last, in pale, the arms of King Edward the Confessor, between two united roses of York and Lancaster (being the arms of the city of Westminster, granted to the Marquess as a coat of augmentation) ; 2nd and 3rd, azure, a garb, or, the family arms of Grusvenor. Crest, A talbot, statant, or. Supporters, Two talbots, reguardant, or, collared, azure. Seats, Eaton-hall, Cheshire ; Halkin, Flintshire ; Cliveden, Maidenhead. Town Residence, 33, Upper Grosvenor-street, W. C/M&s,Brooks's, Travellers', White's, Reform. WESTMINSTER, Duke of, His Grace's predecessor was his father, Richard, K.G., P.C.. 2nd Marquess of Westminster. He was b. Jan. 27, 1795, and suc- ceeded his father in 1845; was M.P. for Chester, 181830, for North Cheshire, 18325: was Lord Steward of the Royal Household, 18502 ; and Lord Lieut, of Cheshire, 184567, and resigned in the latter year: m. Sept. 16, 1819, Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower, 2nd daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland, K.G., and d. Oct. 30, 1869, having had issue four sons and nine daughters . WESTMINSTER, Marchioness of, LADY ELIZABETH MARY LEVESON- GOWER, 2nd daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland, K.G.; m, 1819, the 2nd Marquess of Westminster, who d. 1869. Residences, Motcombe, Shaftesbury; and Fonthill, Wilts.