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Grosvenor, Robert, 1801-1893
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1801-1893
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GROSVENOR, ROBERT, 1ST BARON EBURY, third son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquis of Westminster (qv); b. 24 Apr 1801; adm. 18 Jun 1810; left Apr 1816; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Dec 1818; BA 1821; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Jul 1821; MP (Whig) Shaftesbury Apr 1822-6, Chester 1826-47, Middlesex 1847 – 15 Sep 1857; Comptroller of the Household Nov 1830 – Dec 1834; Privy Councillor 1 Dec 1830; Treasurer of the Household 1846-7; created Baron Ebury 15 Sep 1857; took Whig/Liberal whip, House of Lords, to 1886, afterwards a Liberal Unionist; a staunch Low Churchman, who made several attempts to obtain a revision of the Prayer Book; his bill for the further restriction of Sunday trading in London, introduced by him in the House of Commons 18 Apr 1855, raised a storm of opposition, culminating in Sunday riots in Hyde Park; President, Marylebone Cricket Club 1865; author, Leaves from my Journal during the Summer of 1851, and other works; JP Flintshire 1864, JP Dorset; m. 17 May 1831 Hon. Charlotte Arbuthnot Wellesley, eldest dau. of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley PC GCB, diplomat; d. 18 Nov 1893. DNB Supp.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.