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3 unusual facts about Grosvenor


Cannizaro Park

The house, originally known as Warren House, was built in the 18th century and was owned by the Grosvenor and Drax families who, for most of its history, let it to a series of wealthy tenants.

North Bethesda, Maryland

The far southern edge of the North Bethesda CDP was originally the country estate of the Grosvenor family, whose lineage includes Alexander Graham Bell and a former President of the National Geographic Society.

The Long Voyage

Finally, he recounts the exciting story of the Grosvenor, an English-bound Mercantile ship that ran aground on 4 August 1782 in South Africa.


1792 in Great Britain

Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna establish the newsagent's business in Little Grosvenor Street, London, which will become W H Smith.

Alanna Heiss

Over the next three decades, P.S.1 became one of the most respected exhibition and performance spaces in New York, with such exhibitions as New York, New Wave (1981); Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956 (1993); Greater New York (2000 and 2005), and Arctic Hysteria (2008); Robert Grosvenor (1976); Keith Sonnier (1983); Alex Katz: Under the Stars, American Landscapes 1951-1995 (1998); John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000 (2000), and Gino De Dominicis (2008).

Benjamin Grosvenor

On May 20, 2009, Grosvenor made his debut with the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery, at the National Concert Hall, Dublin where he played Grieg.

Charles G. Bond

Charles Grosvenor Bond (May 29, 1877 – January 10, 1974) was a Republican United States Representative from the state of New York who served in the 67th United States Congress.

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.

Coleman Milne

They originally stretched the Ford Zephyr, later moving on to the Ford Granada upon which a number of versions such as the Minster, Dorchester, and Grosvenor were based.

Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor

Grosvenor described a method in a pamphlet titled The circle squared a method for determining the area of a circle squared that as a result gave a value for π (Pi) that was 3.142135… (Pi is 3.14159…).

E.O. Grosvenor House

It was built as a private home for Ebenezer O. Grosvenor, and now operates as the Grosvenor House Museum.

Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough

He qualified as a barrister in 1879 and was secretary to Lord Robert Grosvenor (a younger son of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster) at HM Treasury from 1880–84 and to Arthur Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1884-95.

Edward William Davies

His own doctor, Henry Lotz, later told the Supreme Court that he had treated Davies for gout complicated by heavy drinking in June 1901; that he had recommended the Grosvenor Hospital, and that Davies had gone there and then made ‘a rapid recovery’.

Embassy of the United States, London

In November 2009, the U.S. government conditionally agreed to sell the Grosvenor Square Chancery Building to Qatari real-estate investment firm Qatari Diar, which in 2007 purchased the Chelsea Barracks.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor Hall

Gilbert H. Grosvenor Hall is an historic building in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Grosvenor Chapel

The organ in Grosvenor Chapel was built by Abraham Jordan and installed in 1732 at the expense of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet.

The foundation stone of the Grosvenor Chapel was laid on 7 April 1730 by Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet, owner of the surrounding property, who had leased the site for 99 years at a peppercorn rent to a syndicate of four “undertakers” led by Benjamin Timbrell, a prosperous local builder.

Grosvenor Grammar School

Grosvenor also has two Irish cricket players working in the school, namely Kyle McCallan and Andrew White.

Grosvenor P. Lowrey

Grosvenor P. Lowrey (September 25, 1831 - April 21, 1893) was a 19th-century corporate attorney who served as consul to numerous powerful interests like Thomas Edison, Western Union, Wells Fargo and The New York Metropolitan Railway Company.

Grosvenor Rowing Club

Grosvenor's first VIII finished 14th at the 2008 Head of the River Race after starting 153rd, beaten narrowly to the Jackson Trophy (Cup for British non-tideway clubs) by 5 seconds by Agecroft Rowing Club who finished 11th after starting 37th.

Halkyn Castle

The house was designed by the architect John Buckler and built between 1824 and 1827 for Robert Grosvenor, who was at the time the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, and later the 1st Marquess of Westminster.

Henrietta Montalba

She mainly devoted herself to portrait or fancy busts; some executed in marble, like those of Doctor Mezger of Amsterdam (Grosvenor Gallery, 1886), and Dr. Schollander, the Scandinavian artist; others in bronze, like that of the Marquess of Lorne; but the greater part of her work was executed in terra cotta, as in the case of her bust of Robert Browning (Grosvenor Gallery, 1883).

J. W. N. Sullivan

By 1907 he and his parents were living at Grosvenor Road, Canonbury, London.

Jade Thompson

Jade and Elle Macpherson attended the Pride of Britain Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 3 October 2011 in London, England.

James Rannie Swinton

At Rome he found many sitters, and laid the foundation of his subsequent popularity as a portrayer of the fashionable beauties of his day; among those who sat to him at Rome were the Countess Grosvenor, Lady Canning, the Countess of Dufferin, and Lady Charlotte Bury.

Jeffrey Skitch

When Alan Styler temporarily left D'Oyly Carte later that year, Skitch began to share the larger role of Giuseppe in The Gondoliers and added to his repertory the roles of Archibald Grosvenor in Patience, Strephon in Iolanthe and Pish-Tush in The Mikado.

Jivin' in Be-Bop

The band plays off-camera while dancers perform during the remaining songs, which include "Shaw 'Nuff", "A Night in Tunisia", "Grosvenor Square", and "Ornithology".

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

Love and the Maiden (exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery 1877, now in the collections of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco)

Jordan Ramos

Jordan is the son of Brazilian Stuntman "Marcelo The Daredevil" and Acrobat and Keep Fit Instructor Anita Grosvenor Ramos.

Keith Webber

After finishing his professional playing career, Webber became an insurance salesman and then the licensee of the Grosvenor Arms pub in Handbridge, Chester and later the White Lion in Buckley.

Little Sodbury

The house fell into disrepair in the nineteenth century, but was restored by architect Sir Harold Brakspear for Lord Grosvenor and later Baron de Tuyll.

Lower Grosvenor Street

Lower Grosvenor Street was a street in Middlesex, England.

Mabel H. Grosvenor

Bell, far ahead of his time in support of social equality and a strong supporter of women's rights, encouraged Grosvenor's mother and grandmother to march in 1913 on the U.S. capital in support of women's right to vote.

Mayfair

Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet married Mary Davis, heiress to part of the Manor of Ebury, in 1677; the Grosvenor family gained 40 hectares (100 acres) of Mayfair.

Michael Caines

He subsequently spent a year and a half at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane in London, before embarking on three influential years under his mentor Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons in Oxfordshire, before moving to France to learn under Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu and Joël Robuchon in Paris.

Olantigh

The Member of Parliament for Wareham 1841–57, 1859–65, 1868–80, on 1 May 1827, married Jane Frances Sawbridge Erle-Drax Grosvenor, of Charborough Park, Dorset, and Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire, at St George's Church, Hanover Square, London.

Pioneers, a Volunteer Network

Attending the formal ceremony were Bell's daughter, Mrs. Gillbert Grosvenor, Frederick Johnson, President of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, T.N. Lacy, President of the Telephone Pioneers, and Brantford Mayor Walter J. Dowden.

Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax is the quadruple-barrelled surname of the descendants of Admiral The Honourable Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1880–1967), who was the younger son of the 17th Baron of Dunsany by his wife Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, née Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton (1855–1916).

Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge

Eleanor Lilian Grosvenor (1885–1977), married Major Josceline Grant; mother of Elspeth Huxley

Robert Puleston

This trial was to settle a dispute between Sir Richard le Scrope of Bolton and Sir Robert Grosvenor of Hulme concerning ownership of a coat of arms.

Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet

During the following year, Jane Grosvenor died and Grosvenor then married Diana, the only daughter of Sir George Warburton of Arley.

Spouge

In 2002 Caribbean Records Inc released a CD entitled Vintage Spouge with hits on it such as Gimme Music by Mike Grosvenor, Any Day Now by Richard Stoute and a cover of Sam Cooke's You Send Me, sung by spouge creator Jackie Opel.

St. Andrew's United Church

Westminster Presbyterian was the first established on the site in 1891, it merged with Grosvenor Street Presbyterian in 1921 when the latter church's building was demolished as part of a plan to extend Bay Street.

Strathclyde Business School

The presentation, made by TV celebrity David Walliams was at a gala ceremony on 29 November at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.

Thomas Cundy III

Thomas Cundy III ( Thomas de Candie *17 October 1821 – + 4 November 1895) joined his father's practice in the 1840s and was also surveyor of the Grosvenor Estate.


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