Gerald Grosvenor, 4th 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.

He commanded his regiment in the Second World War with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was wounded in the leg by a shell splinter on 18 July 1944, suffering from attacks of septicaemia for the remainder of his life.

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.

[citation needed] 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.