Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster

Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster (born January 29 1991) is a British billionaire aristocrat and businessman.

According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Hugh has an estimated fortune close to $10 billion as of 2022.

Early Life

Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor was born January 29 1991 in London as the third child and only son of the late Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster and wife Natalia (nee Phillips). He was baptized on June 23 1991 with King Charles III being one of his godparents. Hugh was styled as Earl of Grosvenor from his birth until 2016, when his father died and he become His Grace, the Duke of Westminster.

He has three sisters: Lady Tamara, Lady Edwina and Lady Viola. They were raised at the family seat of Eaton Hall in Cheshire.

Through his mother, Hugh descends from the Romanov imperial family of Russia, specifically from Nicholas I of Russia, and also from Russian writer Alexander Pushkin and wife Natalia Nikolayevna Goncharova.

Education and Career

Hugh and his sisters attended a local public primary school. Afterwards, he attended the small, private Mostyn House School, and then Ellesmere College. Hugh studied Countryside Management at Newcastle University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree.

After graduating, Hugh worked in estate management at Wheatsheaf Group, a food and agriculture investment business based in the Eaton estate and owned by the Grosvenor Group. He then became Account Manager at Bio-bean, a sustainability company that turns coffee waste into bioproducts, such as logs and biofuel.

Upon his father’s death, in August 2016, as well as the peerages, Hugh inherited a wealth then estimated at 9 billion, with considerable trust funds for his sisters. This wealth is held in a trust, of which the 7th Duke of Westminster, as he became, is a beneficial owner but not legal owner-an arrangement that received considerable press attention, owing to the inheritance tax exemption it confers.

Hugh is now the owner and chair of trustees of the Grosvenor Group, a real estate development and investment company with a portfolio of properties in Europe, Asia and North America and investments in food and agricultural tech companies.

Philanthropy

Hugh is the chair trustees of the Westminster Foundation, a charitable organization that focuses on helping vulnerable youth and their families by supporting local communities and educational espaces and fighting inequality of opportunities.

He also continues to support the DNRC or Defense National Rehabilitation Centre, an organization that helps wounded British military veterans, which was set up by his father Gerald.

In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, Hugh donated $12,5 million to the national Covid relief effect and to support the NHS and $1 million to Oxford University to fund research projects on mental health and psychology.

Personal Life

The Duke is close friends with Prince William and Prince Harry and was named one of the godparents of William’s son, Prince George, in October 2013.

He’s rumored to be dating Harriet Tomlinson, a former Ellesmere classmate who works as a senior consultant at Deverell Smith, a talent and recruitment company.

Titles

29 January 1991-9 August 2016 Earl of Grosvenor

9 August 2016 His Grace The Duke of Westminster

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