3-039-025 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Movers and Seconders of the Address in the Lords and Commons: the Marquis of Westminster, 1871. 'The Right Hon. Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster, Earl Grosvenor, Viscount Belgrave, Baron Grosvenor, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and a Baronet...was appointed Captain of the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry in 1847, and has been Colonel-Commandant of the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Volunteers since 1861...up to the time of his removal to the Upper House, the Marquis of Westminster lost his notability as a revolted Liberal, and voted straight and true with the Gladstone Ministry. It is doubtless owing to the loyalty thus displayed that he was selected to move the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne in the House of Lords; and there is no one, whether from his rank, character, or capability, better entitled to have that duty intrusted to him'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.