Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster

Colonel Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster (13 February 1907 – 25 February 1967) was a British landowner and aristocrat.

Early life Gerald was the son of Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor and Lady Mabel Crichton and a grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.

He inherited his titles 1963 upon the death of his sixty-eight-year old cousin, William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster, who died unmarried and childless.

Career He was commissioned into the 9th Lancers from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1926. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1964.

Personal life On 11 April 1945, when he was third in line of succession to his eventual titles, he married Sally Perry, who was one of three extramarital daughters of Muriel Perry by Roger Ackerley. They were childless.

He is also known to have ordered the demolition of Alfred Waterhouse's Eaton Hall in 1963, at a time when Victorian architecture was unappreciated. It was replaced by a far smaller, modern house. At the time of the demolition, he was Britain's wealthiest peer.

He died in 1967, aged 60, and was buried in the churchyard of Eccleston Church near Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Upon his death, his titles passed to his younger brother, Robert Grosvenor.