Richard Grosvenor Earl Grosvenor 2nd Marquess of Westminster 1795 – 1869

Richard Grosvenor Earl Grosvenor 2nd Marquess of Westminster, KG, PC 1795 – 1869 was an English aristocrat, the brother of Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton and Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury,

Earl Grosvenor was a staunch advocate of homeopathy, and in 1866, Earl Grosvenor was on the Committee of the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method, and his offers to finance clinical trials of homeopathic remedies, in regular hospitals and under regular supervision, were refused by an allopathically dominated administration,

Hugh Lupus Grosvenor 1st Duke of Westminster, the son of Earl Grosvenor, was the nephew of Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton, the nephew of Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury (who was one of the founders of the British Homeopathic Association), and the nephew of Francis Egerton 1st Earl of Ellesmere

• this family were all staunch advocates of homeopathy,

In 1866, Earl Grosvenor was on the Committee of the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method, with William Pitt Amherst 2nd Earl Amherst, Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort, Ralph Buchan, William Alleyne Cecil Lord Burghley 3rd Marquess of Exeter, George Thomas Keppel 6th Earl of Albemarle, William Coutts Keppel Viscount Bury 7th Earl of Albemarle (the Earl of Albemarle’s son), James Key Caird 1st Baronet (Vice Chairman), Colonel Challoner, George Grimston Craven 3rd Earl of Craven, Henry William Dashwood 5th Baronet, Patrick Dudgeon, Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury, Francis Richard Charteris 10th Earl of Wemyss Lord Elcho, Arthur Algernon Capell 6th Earl of Essex, Philip Howard Frere, Edward Kerrison, Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Llanover, Colonel Farnaby Lennard, George Loch, Archibald Keppel MacDonald, Arthur de Vere Capell Viscount Malden, John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough (Chairman), Frederick Francis Maude, William Miles, James Moore, Charles Gordon Lennox 5th Duke of Richmond, Charles Marsham 3rd Earl of Romney, Sir Anthony Rothschild, John Villiers Shelley, John Robert Townshend 1st Earl Sydney, Lt. Colonel Charles Towneley, Augustus Henry Vernon, William Warren Vernon, Arthur Richard Wellesley 2nd Duke of Wellington (1807-1884), William Wells,

In 1866, the Treasury placed rooms at Adelphi Terrace at the disposal of John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough, who was the Chairman of the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method, based on the research done in Belgium by Edward Hamilton, with John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough overseeing the work of Edward Hamilton, George Lennox Moore, James Moore and Alfred Crosby Pope.

William Coutts Keppel Viscount Bury 7th Earl of Albemarle issued an address or report for the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method in 1866. Bury reported that the Dutch had experienced such success with homeopathy against that cattle plague, that they had authorised Edward Hamilton to visit Holland to investigate this.

Edward Hamilton discovered that the Dutch had treated 4798 cattle, 1031 were destroyed = 3767 were treated (with a mixture of allopathic and homeopathic treatments), the survival rate for the beasts treated was 45%, and the survival rate for the beasts treated only by homeopathy was 72-5%.

The Dutch Government had agreed to allow E Seutin, a homeopathic chemist, the total control of infected cattle in Matterness, and initially, E Seutin saved 70% of the cattle, though latterly, he had saved 9 out of every 10 beasts brought to him for treatment, and E Seutin’s use of homeoprophylaxic treatment of unifected beasts brought the epidemic under control entirely within four weeks. Matterness was pronounced free from infection and it has remained thus ever since. The remedies used were arsenicum, phosphorus, phos ac, rhus tox and sulphur.

In 1866, George Lennox Moore became involved with Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method, alongside Edward Hamilton and Alfred Crosby Pope, and overseen by John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough.

George Lennox Moore wrote a detailed report on these trials, including a refutation of the falsities published in _The Lancet__ _regarding the homeopathic treatment of the cattle plague, attacking William Coutts Keppel Viscount Bury 7th Earl of Albemarle and accusing him of ‘being completely misinformed on this matter‘, and inventing a trail of misleading mistruths about the situation.

The orthodox statistics of this clinical trial revealed 8640 cases, 8% killed, 77% died and 15% recovered, though John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough subsequently issued the interim homeopathic results claiming up to 50% recovery rates with arsenicum, belladonna, phosphorus, rhus tox and turpentine as the main homeopathic remedies used.

The Times wrote an article wishing the homeopaths success in these homeopathic trials, but they also made a pithy comment that the allopaths would probably rather see all the cattle die than have homeopathy proved successfull.

The final report on the homeopathic trials in the treatment of cattle plague was issued by John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough. The orthodox statistics of this clinical trial revealed 8640 cases, 8% killed, 77% died and 15% recovered, though John Winston Spencer Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough subsequently issued the interim homeopathic results claiming up to 50% recovery rates with arsenicum, belladonna, phosphorus, rhus tox and turpentine as the main homeopathic remedies used.

Of course, the ‘valuable and so far successful’ results of the homeopathic trials so far outstripped orthodox treatments, the homeopathic trials were immediately postponed by ‘orthodox sources’.

Richard Grosvenor continued the development of his family’s extensive property holdings in London. Mayfair was fully developed by the time he became head of the family, and he was responsible for the development of Belgravia, which he commissioned Thomas Cubitt to design.

On 16 September 1819, he married Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson Gower (8 November 1797-11 November 1891), daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland. They had thirteen children:

1.Lady Eleanor Grosvenor (22 October 1820-4 May 1911) age 90 years

2.Lady Mary Francis Grosvenor (2 Decemer 1821-2 January 1912) age 90 years

3.Gilbert Grosvenor (10 April 1823-2 January 1824) age 10 months

4.Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor (9 July 1824-16 December 1899), married Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock age 75 years

5.Hugh Lupus Grosvenor 1st Duke of Westminster age 74 years

6.Lady Evelyn Grosvenor (16 December 1826-25 January 1839) age12 years

7.Lady Caroline Amelia Grosvenor (14 June 1828-24 March 1906) age 77 years

8.Lady Octavia Grosvenor (22 September 1829-29 May 1921) age 91 years

9.Lady Agnes Grosvenor (24 January 1831-22 January 1909) age 77 years

10.Lord Gilbert Norman Grosvenor (6 January 1833-20 March 1854) age 21 years

11.Lady Jane Louisa Octavia Grosvenor (29 August 1834-13 July 1921) age 86 years

12.Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge (28 January 1837-18 May 1912) age 75 years

13.Lady Theodora Grosvenor (7 July 1840-24 March 1924) age 83 years