In 1959 he served as High Sheriff of Cheshire. On 18 February 1955, he was appointed honorary colonel of the Cheshire Yeomanry and on, he was appointed colonel of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers. In 1952, he was appointed as an Exon in the Yeomen of the Guard. In 1947 he was invalided out of the Army, but in 1950 was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Wiltshire Army Cadet Force. He commanded his regiment in the Second World War with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was wounded in the leg by a shell splinter on 18 July 1944, suffering from attacks of septicaemia for the remainder of his life. From 1936 to 1938 he served as regimental adjutant and in 1938 he was appointed adjutant of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry. He was promoted lieutenant in 1929, Captain in 1936, and major in 1943. He was commissioned into the 9th Lancers from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1926. He inherited his titles 1963 upon the death of his sixty-eight-year old cousin, William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster, who died unmarried and childless.
Gerald was the son of Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor and Lady Mabel Crichton and a grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. Grave of Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster The 4th Duke of Westminster's memorial in Eccleston ChurchĬolonel Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster DSO PC DL (13 February 1907 – 25 February 1967) was a British landowner and aristocrat.
