In April 2000, the firm moved into new London offices. They moved to Asia in the early 1990s and to Continental Europe just before the millennium. The family business started developing in Australia in the 1960s. During the second half of the 20th century, the business expanded into the Americas and developed Annacis Island and Vancouver, both in British Columbia in the west of Canada in the 1950s. After developing the two parts of Central London, the family business expanded. The Grosvenor family's first development was in Mayfair, Central London, in the early 18th century the second big development came around 100 years later and was in another exclusive part of London – Belgravia, developed by the family after the end of Napoleonic Wars and the conversion of Buckingham Palace – which is just one mile East. 5 Sports interests and conservation work.3.1 Benevolent work for service personnel.The Duke died on 9 August 2016 after suffering a heart attack. According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2016, the Duke was worth £9.35 billion, placing him sixth in the list and making him the third-richest British citizen. The business also has interests in other parts of Europe. Via Grosvenor Estates, the business he inherited along with the dukedom in 1979, the Duke was the richest property developer in the United Kingdom and one of the country's largest landowners, with property in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Cheshire, including the family's country seat of Eaton Hall, as well as 300 acres (0.47 sq mi) of Mayfair and Belgravia in Central London.

He entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and served in the Territorial Army, where he was promoted to major-general in 2004. After a troubled education, he left school with two O-levels. In the first ever edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, published in 1989, he was ranked as the second richest person in the United Kingdom, with a fortune of £3.2 billion (approximately £8.47 billion in today's value ), with only The Queen above him.īorn in Northern Ireland, Grosvenor moved from an island in the middle of Lower Lough Erne to be educated at Sunningdale and Harrow boarding schools in the south of England. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton. Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, CB, CVO, OBE, TD, CD, DL, Bt (22 December 1951 – 9 August 2016), was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general, and peer.

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