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1. www.british-history.ac.uk › survey-london › vol39The Acquisition of the Estate | British History Online

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   3 days ago · For three hundred years the Grosvenor family has owned large estates in what are now some of the most valuable parts of Westminster. These estates were acquired in 1677 through the marriage of Sir Thomas Grosvenor with Mary Davies, the infant daughter and heiress of a scrivener in the City of London.

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3. www.forbes.com › sites › timtreadgoldFire In A Coal Mine Could Slow Anglo American’s ... - Forbes

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   4 days ago · Grosvenor and other coal assets controlled by Anglo American in Australia have been earmarked for sale as part of a major makeover by the London-based mining company after it beat off a takeover...

4. www.british-history.ac.uk › survey-london › vol40Davies Street Area: Introduction | British History Online

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   1 day ago · Davies Street (named after Mary Davies, the heiress who by her marriage to Sir Thomas Grosvenor in 1677 brought the London estate into the Grosvenor family) was developed principally as the return frontages of large building plots which faced on to the main east-west streets.

5. www.9news.com.au › national › grosvenor-mineUnderground fire to close Queensland coal mine for 'months'

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   3 days ago · A fire erupted underground at Grovesnor Mine outside Moranbah, south-west of Mackay, on June 29. A spokesperson for operators Anglo American said the fire continued to burn today and work ...

6. www.british-history.ac.uk › survey-london › vol40Grosvenor Square: Introduction | British History Online

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   1 day ago · In Grosvenor Square the most assiduous subscribers were John Aislabie, whose house was rather notably Palladian, and Lord Scarbrough, whose house was probably not. The first occupants stayed, on average, for twelve or thirteen years.

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   5 days ago · Grosvenor’s UK property business has invested in noa (formerly known as A/O)’s Fund II, which invests in technologies that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, build climate resilience, and accelerate the energy transition and digitisation of the real estate and construction industries.

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   Who was Sir Richard Grosvenor?

   • In 1622 Sir Richard Grosvenor was created a baronet by James I, and Sir Thomas, his great-grandson, was the third baronet. The family seat was at Eaton Hall, near Chester. All Sir Thomas Grosvenor's prospects from the marriage were in the future.

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   How much land did Mary Davies give Sir Thomas Grosvenor?

   • The marriage portion which the guardians of the twelve-year-old Mary Davies were able to offer the young Cheshire baronet Sir Thomas Grosvenor in 1677 consisted of some five hundred acres of land, mostly meadow and pasture, a short distance from the western fringes of built-up London.

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   Who built Grosvenor houses?

   • The first of these was Seth Smith, whose earliest building venture on the Grosvenor estates took place in Davies Street. In September 1818 he applied to the Estate Board for the renewal terms of some houses on the west side 'for the purpose of rebuilding a description of better houses'.

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   Who lived in Grosvenor Square?

   • Again, however creditable, this was a slightly less patrician effort than that of the St. James's Squareites. In Grosvenor Square the most assiduous subscribers were John Aislabie, whose house was rather notably Palladian, and Lord Scarbrough, whose house was probably not. The first occupants stayed, on average, for twelve or thirteen years.

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9. www.arthistorynews.com › articles › 8157_MrsMrs Gainsborough sent to Bologna - Art History News - by ...

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   3 days ago · News from Italy that the Museo Davia Bargellini in Bologna has been lent Thomas Gainsborough's Portrait of the Artist's Wife from the Collection Rau for UNICEF. Completed in 1777, this marvellous portrait, full of painterly bravura, will be on display in the museum until 6th October 2024.