Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet

Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet (c. 1604 – 31 January 1665) is an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster.

In 1643 he was High Sheriff of Cheshire and in February of that year outlawed those who supported the Parliamentary cause in the Battle of Edgehill in the previous October.

Sir Richard's son and heir, Roger, was killed in a duel by his cousin, Hugh Roberts, on 22 August 1661.

[1] An Imaginary view of "Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester sitting in his parliament with the barons and abbots of that Countie Palatine" was engraved in 1656 by Wenceslaus Hollar, and published as an illustration to King's 'The Vale-Royall of England' and 'A Short Treatise of the Isle of Man' (London: 1656); second state.

[2] The engraving is dedicated in Latin: PM praenobilis Richardi Grossvenour de Eaton in Comitatu Cestriae Equitis Auratis et Baronetti ex stirpe comitatum Cestriae ut abunde patet in archivi A* Regis Ric(ardi) 2 ("(In honour of (?))

Arms of the Grosvenor Baronets : Azure, a garb or with a canton of a baronet , being the Red Hand of Ulster
Lettice, Lady Grosvenor, and her sister, Mary, Lady Calveley, ca. 1604
"Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester sitting in his parliament with the barons and abbots of that Countie Palatine". 1656 engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar , dedicated to Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet