Note 12 — INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO CHAPTER I
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Robert, Earl Grosvenor (1767–1845), had in 1831 been created Marquess of Westminster; he had married Eleanor, only daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Wilton. Richard, Lord Grosvenor, their eldest son, married Elizabeth Mary, daughter of the first Duke of Sutherland; Thomas, the second son, inherited, under a special remainder, his grandfather’s Earldom of Wilton, and married Mary Margaret, daughter of Edward, twelfth Earl of Derby.