Dynasty set to expand as Hugh Grosvenor, described as UK’s ‘most eligible bachelor’, announces engagement to Olivia Henson
scrivener. Her dowry included 500 acres of boggy swampland and meadows to the west of what was then the boundary of London.
“In the process of time Mary Davies’s inheritance was developed for building, and the Grosvenors became the richest urban landlords in the country, the lustre of their name – for long synonymous with wealth and fashion – being gilded by successive advancements in the peerage, culminating in the dukedom of Westminster in 1874,”, a hugely ambitious academic endeavour to chart the history of every street in the capital.
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