Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster
Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster DSO PC ( born February 13, 1907 † 25 February 1967 Saighton, Cheshire ) was a British aristocrat and soldier.
Gerald Grosvenor was born the son of Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor and his wife Lady Mabel Crichton. He was a grandson of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. In 1945, he married Sally Perry; the couple had no children. The Westminster family is still regarded as the richest noble family of the United Kingdom.
His military training received Grosvenor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, after he had previously studied at Eton. In 1926 he joined the regiment of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancer. In 1929 he was promoted to lieutenant in 1936 and 1943 to the Captain to Major. From 1936 to 1938 he served as adjutant of the regiment; then he became adjutant of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, an association of the British Territorial Army. During World War II, he commanded his regiment as Lieutenant - Colonel ( Lieutenant Colonel ). On July 18, 1944 he was injured by shrapnel in the leg and suffered severely for the rest of his life to bouts of sepsis.
1947 Gerald Grosvenor was being invalided out of the army, but in 1950 used as a second lieutenant in the Army Cadet Force, an army organization for young people, again. In 1952, he became the exon ( military rank ) of the Yeomen of the Guard appointed. On February 18, 1955, he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Cheshire Yeomanry and on May 19, 1961, Colonel of the Royal Lancers. In 1959 he was High Sheriff of Cheshire and 1964-1967 Lord Steward of the Household.
1963 Grosvenor gave the order to demolish the pompous family seat Eaton Hall, at one time, was not particularly valued as Victorian architecture. The old building was replaced by a much smaller, more modern building. The decision to demolish was decades later regretted by historians and architects.
Gerald Grosvenor died in 1967 at the age of 60 years following an operation in his house Saighton Grange and inherited his title to his brother Robert Grosvenor.