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Did you know that there are over 80 different skills across the employees of the Grosvenor Estate in its rural estates and trading companies in the North West of England?
The Westminster Foundation represents the philanthropic activities of The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor Estate. For details of the current grant-making programme and the online application form: click here.
The Grosvenors trace their descent from Gilbert le Grosveneur, nephew of Hugh d’Avranches.
Nicknamed Lupus (Latin for wolf) Hugh was a nephew of William the Conqueror, and was to become the first in a line of seven Norman Earls of Chester.
For more information on the history of the Grosvenor Estate please make a selection from the list on the left.