Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, CB, OBE, CD, TD, DL, GCLJ (born 22 December 1951), is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and his wife Hon. Viola Maud Lyttelton. He is the owner of property company Grosvenor Group. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2011, the Duke of Westminster is worth £6.7 billion placing him fourth in the list behind Lakshmi Mittal, Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich[1] and making him the richest British person. He was educated at Harrow School and Sandhurst. In 2005, he became Chancellor of the University of Chester.
Via Grosvenor Estates, the Duke is the richest property developer in the United Kingdom and one of the country's largest landowners, with vast estates in Lancashire, Cheshire and Scotland, as well as large areas of Mayfair and Belgravia in central London. The Duke also owns estates in Canada and Spain.
