Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet was an English Member of Parliament and an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster.
Background
Richard Grosvenor was the eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet. At the time of his father"s death in 1700 he was still being educated at Eton College, and was under the guardianship of Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet, and Thomas and Francis Cholmondeley.
Career
After leaving Eton, he went on the Grand Tour, visiting Switzerland, Bavaria, Italy and the Netherlands. The couple had one daughter, Catherine, who died in 1718. During the following year, Jane Grosvenor died and Grosvenor then married Diana, the only daughter of Sir George Warburton of Arley.
They had no children.
Around this time he was suspected of being a Jacobite supporter, although in 1727 he participated in the coronation of George World War II During the time that Grosvenor was baronet, the estates in London were being developed. Also during this time there is evidence of the first association of the Grosvenor family with horse racing, when Grosvenor"s horses ran at Chester and Newmarket in 1720.
Membership
6th Parliament of Great Britain. 7th Parliament of Great Britain. 5th Parliament of Great Britain]
In 1715 Grosvenor was returned as Member of Parliament for Chester and in the following year he was elected as mayor of the city.