Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster
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Colonel Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster DSO PC (February 13, 1907–February 25, 1967) was the son of Captain Hugh William Grosvenor and a grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.
He was commissioned into the 9th Lancers from Sandhurst in 1926. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1929, Captain in 1936, and Major in 1943. From 1936 to 1938 he served as regimental adjutant and in 1938 he was appointed adjutant of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry.
He commanded his regiment in World War II as a Lieutenant-Colonel and was wounded in the leg by a shell splinter on July 18, 1944, suffering from attacks of septicaemia for the remainder of his life. In 1947 he was invalided out of the Army, but in 1950 he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Wiltshire Army Cadet Force.
He married Sally Perry, on 11 April 1945.
On February 18, 1955, he was appointed honorary colonel of the Cheshire Yeomanry and on May 18, 1961, he was appointed colonel of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1964. He died in 1967, age 60 and his titles passed to his brother, Robert Grosvenor.
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| Preceded by The Duke of Hamilton |
Lord Steward 1964–1967 |
Succeeded by The Viscount Cobham |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by William Grosvenor |
Duke of Westminster 1963–1967 |
Succeeded by Robert Grosvenor |
