Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster

Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster

Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, KG, PC (January 27 1795October 31 1869) was an English aristocrat who continued the development of his family's extensive property holdings in London. Mayfair was fully developed by the time he became head of the family, and he was responsible for the development of Belgravia, which he commissioned Thomas Cubitt to design.

Family

On 16 September 1819, he married Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland. They had twelve children:

*Lady Theodora Grosvenor (d. 1924)
*Gilbert Grosvenor (1823–1824)
*Lady Jane Louisa Octavia Grosvenor (d. 1921)
*Lady Eleanor Grosvenor (d. 1911)
*Lady Mary Francis Grosvenor (d. 1912)
*Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor (1824–1899), married Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock
*Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825–1899)
*Lady Caroline Amelia Grosvenor (d. 1906)
*Lady Octavia Grosvenor (d. 1921)
*Lord Gilbert Norman Grosvenor (1833–1854)
*Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge (1837–1912)
*Lady Agnes Grosvenor (d. 1909)


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