Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st duke of Westminster
1825–1899
Landowner and politician. Left Balliol College, Oxford, in 1847 without taking a degree in order to enter Parliament. Liberal MP for Chester, 1847–69. Succeeded his father as third marquess of Westminster in 1869. Owned extensive property in Mayfair, London. Created first duke of Westminster, 1874. Supported Gladstone’s anti-war position in the Balkan crisis, 1877–8.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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