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2 unusual facts about Chester Square


Chester Square

Chester Square is named after the city of Chester, near to which Eaton Hall – the ancestral home of the Grosvenor family – is situated.

Grosvenor Group

A few generations later, in the 1820s, their focus moved south - to what is now Belgravia - developing Eaton Square, Chester Square and other famous addresses.



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Gobnait Ní Bhruadair

Albinia Lucy Brodrick on 17 December 1861 at 23 Chester Square, Belgrave, London, the fifth daughter of William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton (1830–1907), and his wife, Augusta Mary (née Freemantle), daughter of the 1st Baron Cottesloe.

Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore

Lord Donoughmore married at St. Michael´s church, Chester-square, on 21 December 1901, Elena Maria Grace, daughter of Michael P. Grace.