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acquired the land that, through her, came to form the basis for the
Grosvenors’ London holdings. (Sir Robert Grosvenor had apparently
also served in France in the late 1360s or early 1370s under
Sir James Audley, “a lieutenant of the Black Prince”.19) In London,
Audley Street (South and North) runs through Mayfair.
• Cliveden Avenue, which runs for most of the length of Annacis
Island, shares its name with a stately home that the first Duke of
Westminster owned in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire,
in the latter part of the 1800s. He acquired it on the death of
his mother-in-law, a member of the prominent Sutherland family
that built the immense Italianate country house still on the site,
and he sold it to the Astor family in 1893.
Today, the Grosvenor name is also evident elsewhere in Metro Vancouver
beyond Annacis Island. It can be found, for example, on the Grosvenor
Building on Georgia Street (built in the 1980s and home to law firms such
as Hunter Litigation Chambers) and recent residential developments.20 The
Grosvenor Group’s website—as well as presentation signs for its new developments—
bear a stylized wheatsheaf logo that seems to have replaced, on
new marketing material, the rounded version found on the Annacis Business
Park marker.
And somehow it seems appropriate, given this family’s history, that the
present Duke of Westminster, the seventh, is a godfather to Prince George,
the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
ENDNOTES
1. This piece is woven together based on numerous fascinating
sources including Charles Markham,
“They’re Building a Vest-Pocket Empire on the
Fraser”, Maclean’s (13 October 1956), online:
<archive.macleans.ca/article/1956/10/13/theyre
-building-a-vest-pocket-empire-on-the-fraser>; R
Stewart-Brown, “The Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy,
1385-1391” (1938) 89 Transactions of the
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1, online:
<www.medievalists.net/2009/05/the-scrope-andgrosvenor
controversy-1385-1391/>; “The Scrope-
Grosvenor Trial (1385-1390)”, online: <chaucer.fas.
harvard.edu/pages/scrope-grosvenor-trial-1385-
1390>; “Scrope v Grosvenor”, Wikipedia, online: <en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrope_v_Grosvenor>; “Close
Rolls, Richard II: May 1389” in HC Maxwell Lyte, ed,
Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 3, 1385-
1389 (London: 1921) 581, online: British History
Online <www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/
ric2/vol3/pp581-590>; “Close Rolls, Richard II:
December 1391” in HC Maxwell Lyte, ed, Calendar
of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392
(London: 1922), 517, online: British History Online
<www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/
vol4/pp517-520>; Sir N Harris Nicolas, The Controversy
Between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert
Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry, AD MCCCLXXXV
– MCCCXC (London: 1832); Zachary Garceau,
“Scrope v Grosvenor”, Vita Brevis (6 May 2020),
online: <vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2020/
05/scrope-v-grosvenor/>; “Grosvenor’s Heritage –
Grosvenor’s London Estate”, online: <www.grosvenor
london.com/grosvenor/our-heritage>; WHB Bird,
“The Grosvenor Myth”, (1902) The Ancestor 166;
Juliet Patricia Davis, “The Resilience of a London
Great Estate: Urban Development, Adaptive Capacity
and the Politics of Stewardship” (2018) 11 Journal
of Urbanism: International Research on Place-
making and Urban Sustainability, online: <www.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549175.20
17.1360378>; “Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster”,
Wikipedia, online: <en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Hugh_Grosvenor,_1st_Duke_of_Westmin
ster>; “Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westmin
ster”, Wikipedia, online: <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hugh_Grosvenor,_2nd_Duke_of_Westminster>
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