Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, was a British landowner, businessman, aristocrat, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. In the first-ever edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, published in 1989, he was ranked as the second richest person in the United Kingdom, with a fortune of £3.2 billion, with only Queen Elizabeth II above him.
His Grace the 6th Duke of Westminster, Foundation Chancellor of the University of Chester 2005–2016
The Duke at his desk in 1988
The grave of the 6th Duke of Westminster
Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster,, is a British aristocrat and billionaire businessman. He inherited his title and control of the Grosvenor Estate, then worth an estimated £9 billion, from his father in 2016. As such, Grosvenor is one of the wealthiest men in Britain. In 2023, Bloomberg estimated that he had a net worth of approximately £9.42 billion. He ranked eleventh on the 2023 Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of £9.878 billion.
