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Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (born 22 December 1951) is a British billionaire, landowner, peer, businessman, and former Territorial Army officer in the British Army. He is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and The Hon. Viola Maud Lyttelton. He is the owner of property company Grosvenor Group. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2015 the Duke of Westminster is worth $13 billion, placing him ninth in the list and making him the fourth richest Briton. He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In 2005, he was elected 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 Oxford, Cheshire and Scotland, as well as large areas of Mayfair and Belgravia in Central London, and also elsewhere in Europe. ==Military career== After leaving Harrow with two O-levels,〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/5d408ecd#p0093pds〕 then Earl Grosvenor, he joined the Territorial Army in 1970 as a trooper. In 1973 he entered Sandhurst, and after passing out as an officer cadet, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve of the Royal Armoured Corps (Queen's Own Yeomanry) on 13 May 1973. He was promoted to lieutenant on 13 May 1975 and to captain on 1 July 1980. He was subsequently promoted to the acting rank of major on 1 January 1985 and to the substantive rank on 22 December. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 1 April 1992, he subsequently commanded the North Irish Horse, the Cheshire Yeomanry Squadron, founded by his ancestors, and the Queen's Own Yeomanry. He was promoted to colonel on 31 December 1994 and was appointed the Honorary Colonel of the 7th Regt. Army Air Corps (1 January 1996) and the Northumbrian Universities Officer Training Corps (30 November 1995). Promoted to brigadier on 17 January 2000, he was appointed the honorary Colonel of the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry on 14 May 2001. He was also appointed Colonel in Chief of the Canadian Royal Westminster Regiment, the North Irish Horse and as Colonel Commandant Yeomanry. The Duke was Grand Prior of the Priory of England of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, 1995–2001.〔http://www.st-lazarus.org.uk/order-of-saint-lazarus/Commanderies/14/-Mersey/25/History/33/〕 In 2004 the Duke was appointed to the new post of Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets), with promotion to the rank of Major-General. In March 2007, having served in the Ministry of Defence as Assistant CDS for four years, he handed over responsibility for 50,000 Reservists and 138,000 Cadets to Major-General Simon Lalor, in the wake of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal in which he was implicated.〔(Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff steps down ), Daily Mail, Retrieved 2012-03-31.〕 The Duke became Deputy Commander Land Forces (Reserves) in May 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Defence Viewpoints )〕 He retired in 2012. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his military service in the 2008 Birthday Honours. He is also an Honorary Vice President of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and a member of the International Advisory Board of the RUSI. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for his service as a member of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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