The main residence had its walls hung with master works, paintings by Goya, Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Hals, and Velázquez. His ancestral country estate in Cheshire, the 54-bedroom Eaton Hall, consisted of 11,000 acres (45 km 2) of parkland, gardens and stables.

At all events it stuck, and my husband's friends never called him anything but Bendor or Benny'. 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 name is a jovial reference to the ancient lost armorials of the family: Azure, a bend or, which were awarded to the Scrope family in the famous case of 1389 heard before the Court of Chivalry, known as Scrope v Grosvenor. Nickname 'Bendor' Azure, a bend or, the ancient Grosvenor armsįrom his childhood and during his adult life he was known within family circles as 'Bendor', which was also the name of the racehorse Bend Or owned by his grandfather the first Duke, which won The Derby in 1880, the year following his grandson's birth. Through his mother's subsequent marriage after his father's death, he was the stepson of George Wyndham. 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. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO, DSO (19 March 1879 – 19 July 1953) was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world.

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