1. Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor was born on 27 November 1977 and is a British art historian, writer and former art dealer.
11 Facts About Bendor Grosvenor
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Bendor Grosvenor is known for discovering a number of important lost artworks by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger.
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Bendor Grosvenor's parents are The Honourable Richard Alexander Grosvenor and Gabriella Grosvenor.
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The name Bendor is derived from the Grosvenor family's medieval heraldic shield, a bend or, a golden bend, which they used until 1389, when it was ruled that the Scrope family had a better claim to it, in the case Scrope v Grosvenor.
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Bendor Grosvenor was educated at Harrow School before attending the University of East Anglia for his BA.
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Bendor Grosvenor then received an MPhil from Pembroke College, Cambridge and a PhD from the University of East Anglia.
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Bendor Grosvenor's first major art discovery was a mis-catalogued portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence being sold at a London auction in 2003 as a work by Lawrence's pupil George Henry Harlow.
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Bendor Grosvenor has been a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on National Records and Archives, and the Lord Chancellor's Forum for Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research.
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Bendor Grosvenor was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder as an adult, and has advocated improved accessibility at museums.
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Bendor Grosvenor is a second cousin nine times removed to both Jacobite Princes, since he is a descendant of King Charles II and Louise de Kerouaille.
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Specifically Bendor Grosvenor's great-grandfather was John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston, a descendant of Charles and Henry's male-line second cousin Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.