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“2nd Duke (Wikipedia)”; “Sir Richard Scrope – 1st
Baron Scrope of Bolton” (20 July 2017), online:
<thehistoryjar.com/tag/sir-robert-grosvenor/>;
“Grosvenor Group”, Wikipedia, online: <en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Group#The_
Grosvenor_Estate>; “Grosvenor Square”, Wiki
pedia, online: <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_
Square>; “Belgravia”, Wikipedia, online: <en.wiki
pedia.org/wiki/Belgravia>; “Eaton Hall, Cheshire”,
Wikipedia, online: <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton
_Hall,_Cheshire>; “Cliveden”, Wikipedia, online:
<en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliveden>; Arthur Charles
Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry (London
and Edinburgh: TC & EC Jack, 1908).
2. “Grosvenor – Synopsis – British Dukedoms” “British
Dukedoms”, online: <georgepohl.typepad.com/
england_dukedoms/2015/09/-grosvenor-synop
sis.html>. This lineage is somewhat disputed by some
historians, even if they concede that “the family is of
undoubted antiquity and distinction”: Bird, supra
note 1; Stewart-Brown, supra note 1 at 11–12.
3. Also found at “Deposition of Geoffrey Chaucer,
Esquire” (1386), online: <chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/
pages/deposition-geoffrey-chaucer-esquire-1386>.
4. Noel Cox, “The Law of Arms in New Zealand”
1998 ALRS 2 (1998), 18(2) New Zealand Universities
Law Review 225, endnote 13, online: <classic.
austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ALRS/1998/2.html#fn1
3>. The actual text of the 1389 judgment, and any
reasons for judgment, appear to have been “lost”, as
Nicolas laments (supra note 1), though its essence is
regularly summarized.
5. Strictly speaking, “though a garb, unless quoted
otherwise, is presumed to be a sheaf of wheat, the
term is not so confined”: Fox-Davies, supra note 1,
quoting WG Taunton, “The Tauntons of Oxford, by
One of Them”.
6. “British Dukedoms”, supra note 2.
7. Fox-Davies, supra note 1. Not all historians accept
this version of the story, questioning why the
Grosvenors would have modelled their arms on
those of later, more remote connections within the
Earl of Chester line, rather than on the wolf-related
crest of Hugh Lupus: Bird, supra note 1.
8. “Our History”, online: <www.grosvenor.com/aboutus/
our-history>.
9. In contrast, “at present, none of the descendants
bearing the Scrope surname possess any hereditary
titles in England”: Garceau, supra note 1.
10. Edward Walford, “Apsley House and Park Lane” in
Old and New London: Volume 4 (London, 1878),
359, online: British History Online <www.british-his
tory.ac/uk/old-new-longdon/vol3/pp359-375>.
11. Another of the duke’s Derby winners (in 1886) was
named—invoking either “a bend or” or “a garb
or”—“Ormonde”, and a later of his contenders was
“Orme”: Stewart-Brown, supra note 1 at 1.
12. Bendor Grosvenor is also the name of another, surviving
member of the Grosvenor family; he is a
prominent art historian and the fifth cousin of the
present Duke of Westminster: <en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Bendor_Grosvenor>.
13. See 2nd Duke (Wikipedia), supra note 1, which
alleges, for example, that Bendor shared the fascist
sympathies also found among certain other members
of the English aristocracy in the 1930s and early
1940s.
14. Markham, supra note 1. This episode was not as
lighthearted, of course, as this mid-century description
might suggest, as considerable violence ensued:
“2nd Duke (Wikipedia)”, supra note 1.
15. Ibid.
16. The island was named after Noël François Annance,
a clerk with the Hudson’s Bay Company at the time of
his travels on the Fraser River in the 1820s. His
adventures had earlier included distinguished service
on behalf of the British in the War of 1812. However,
his career prospects seem ultimately to have
been thwarted by the fact he was Métis. See e.g.
Michel Bouchard, “Retrieving Noel from Obscurity”,
British Columbia Review (26 September 2018),
online: <thebcreview.ca/2018/09/26/141-retriev
ing-noel-from-obscurity/>, reviewing Jean Barman,
Abenaki Daring: The Life and Writings of Noel
Annance, 1792-1869 (Montreal and Kingston:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).
17. “Our History”, supra note 8.
18. Sutton Young, “Logo Design for Grosvenor”, online:
<www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/258394097351187157/>.
19. Stewart-Brown, supra note 1 at 16.
20. The author represented the Grosvenor Group in a
hearing before the Property Assessment Appeal
Board in relation to one of those residential developments,
though not the one whose presentation sign is
pictured on page 776 of this article.
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