page_title: Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
section_title: Nickname "Bend'Or"
hierarchical_section_title: Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster / Nickname "Bend'Or"
context_page_description: Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO, DSO was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world.
  He was the son of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, and Lady Sibell Lumley, the daughter of the 9th Earl of Scarborough.
context_section_description: From his childhood and during his adult life he was known within family circles as "Bendor", which was also the name of the racehorse Bend Or owned by his grandfather the first Duke, which won The Derby in 1880, the year following his grandson's birth. The name is a jovial reference to the ancient lost and much lamented former armorials of the family: Azure, a bend or, which were awarded to the Scrope family in the famous case of 1389 heard before the Court of Chivalry, known as Scrope v Grosvenor. His wife Loelia wrote in her memoirs: "Of course everybody, even his parents and sisters, would normally have addressed the baby as "Belgrave" so they may have thought that any nickname was preferable. At all events it stuck, and my husband's friends never called him anything but Bendor or Benny".
caption: Azure, a bend or, the ancient Grosvenor arms