GROSVENOR, Sir Richard (1585-1645), of Eaton Hall, Cheshire.

b. 9 Jan. 1585, G. Ormerod, Hist. Cheshire (1882), ii. 843. 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Richard Grosvenor of Eaton Hall and Christian, da of Sir Robert Broke of Norton, Cheshire. educ. privately (John Bruen) 1595; Queen’s Oxf. 1599, BA 1602. Pprs. of Sir Richard Grosvenor ed. R. Cust (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxiv), xiv; Al. Ox. m. (1) 1600, Lettice (bur. 20 Jan. 1611), Ormerod, ii. 843. da. of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley† of Vale Royal, Cheshire, 1s. 3da.; P.H. Lawson, ‘Fam. Mem. of the Stanleys’, Jnl. of the Chester and N. Wales Arch. and Hist. Soc. n.s. xxiv, 89. (2) 1614, Elizabeth (bur. 26 June 1621), Ormerod, ii. 843. da. of Sir Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire, s.p.; (3) Elizabeth (d. 12 Mar. 1628), Cheshire and Lancs. Fun. Certs. ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. vi), 99-100. da. of Sir Peter Warburton† of Grafton, Cheshire, j.c.p. wid. of Sir Thomas Stanley of Alderley, Cheshire, s.p. Pprs. of Sir Richard Grosvenor, xii-xiii; Eaton Hall, Grosvenor Hist. and Legal Misc. 6, ff. 6-7; Ormerod, ii. 843; CB, i. 189-90. Kntd. 24 Aug. 1617; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 165. suc. fa. 1619; cr. bt. 23 Feb. 1622. CB, i. 189-90. d. 14 Sept. 1645. Ormerod, ii. 843. sig. Ric[hard] Grosvenor.