Norman Grosvenor


Captain The Honourable Norman de l'Aigle Grosvenor, was a British Liberal Party politician.

Early life

Grosvenor was one of five sons and two daughters born to Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury and the former Hon. Charlotte Wellesley. Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury, was his elder brother. Another brother, Thomas Grosvenor, married Sophia Williams.
His father was the third son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster and the former Lady Eleanora Egerton. A member of the Grosvenor family headed by the Duke of Westminster, his uncle was Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, while Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, and Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge, were his first cousins. His mother was the eldest daughter of eldest daughter of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley.

Career

He was returned to parliament at an unopposed by-election in December 1869 as a Member of Parliament for Chester, succeeding his cousin Earl Grosvenor, who had succeeded to the peerage. He did not stand again at the 1874 general election.

Personal life

Grosvenor married Caroline Susan Theodora, daughter of James Stuart-Wortley, in 1881. Her father was the Solicitor General under Lord Palmerston and Caroline, herself, was a novelist and artist who led the Women's Farm and Garden Union. They were the parents of two daughters:
Grosvenor died, aged 53, on 21 November 1898. His wife died in August 1940.

Descendants

Through his daughter Susan, he was the grandfather of Alice Buchan, John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, and Alastair Francis Buchan, two of whom would spend most of their lives in Canada.