Grosvenor (/ˈɡroʊvənər/GROH-vən-ər) is a
surname derived from
Hugh Le Grand Veneur, a member of a
Norman French family that aided
William the Conqueror in 1066. Le grand veneur, literally means "the master huntsman" in
French, is an elevated title in William's 11th-century French court. Initially, Hugh was called Hugh Lupus. Lupus was overweight, and his townsmen gradually changed the appellation from le grand veneur ("the master huntsman") to le gros veneur ("the Fat Huntsman"), and Hugh wore the epithet with pride.[1]
Melville Bell Grosvenor (1901–1982), editor of National Geographic Magazine and president of the National Geographic Society, son of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
Archibald Grosvenor, one of the main characters in the Gilbert & Sullivan opera Patience
References
^"1066, Gilbert Le Grand Veneur, Hugh Lupus, & the Cheshire Cat," Saturday, 31 December 2011," John's Adventures in Genealogical Wonderland, Internet website
[1], accessed January 25, 2020.
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