Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet

For other people named Richard Grosvenor, seeRichard Grosvenor (disambiguation).

Arms of theGrosvenor Baronets:Azure, a garb orwith acanton of abaronet,being theRed Hand of Ulster

Lettice, Lady Grosvenor, and her sister, Mary, Lady Calveley, ca. 1604

Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet(c. 1604 – 31 January 1665) is an ancestor of the modern dayDukes of Westminster.He was the son ofSir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronetand Lettice Cholmondeley, daughter ofSir Hugh Cholmondeley.He spent his childhood atEaton Hall,Cheshire.

In 1628 he married Sydney, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn ofMostyn,Flintshire,thereby also gaining estates in north Wales.

Sir Richard was involved in theCivil Waron theRoyalistside. In 1643 he wasHigh Sheriff of Cheshireand in February of that year outlawed those who supported theParliamentarycause in theBattle of Edgehillin the previous October.

In July 1659, Sir Richard was a supporter ofSir George Boothin the abortive pro-Royalist Cheshire and Lancashire Rising. Sir Richard's son and heir, Roger, was killed in a duel by his cousin, Hugh Roberts, on 22 August 1661.

When Sir Richard died in 1665, he was succeeded by his grandsonSir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet,who was aged only eight at the time.

Dedication by Wenceslaus Hollar

"Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester sitting in his parliament with the barons and abbots of that Countie Palatine". 1656 engraving byWenceslaus Hollar,dedicated to Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet

An Imaginary view of "Hugh LupusEarle of Chester sitting in his parliament with the barons and abbots of that Countie Palatine "was engraved in 1656 byWenceslaus Hollar,and published as an illustration to King's 'The Vale-Royall of England' and 'A Short Treatise of the Isle of Man' (London: 1656); second state.The engraving is dedicated in Latin:PM praenobilis Richardi Grossvenour de Eaton in Comitatu Cestriae Equitis Auratis et Baronetti ex stirpe comitatum Cestriae ut abunde patet in archivi A* Regis Ric(ardi) 2( "(In honour of (?)) the most noble Richard Grosvenor of Eaton in the County of Chester, Knight Bachelor and Baronet, from the stock of the Earls of Chester as is abundantly apparent in the archives" A* "of King Richard II" ). The arms of Grosvenor are shown at right bottom, featuring the Garb of Chester and a canton of a baronet.