(1767 - 1845), o. surv. s. of 1st E. Grosvenor, of Grosvenor House, London, and Eaton Hall, Ches.; sty. Vct. Belgrave 1784 - 1802 when suc. fa. as 2nd E.; educ. Westminster, Harrow and Trin. Camb. 1783; MP 1788 - 1802; m. 1794 Ldy. Eleanor Egerton, dau. of 1st E. of Wilton; cr. M. of Westminster 1831; KG and FRS 1841.
1786 - 8 Venice (12 May 1786), Rome (by 9 Dec. 1787)
1789
William Gifford recalled spending 'many years' with Lord Belgrave 'in two successive tours',1 details of which are sparse. Lord Belgrave came to Venice on 12 May 1786 (with the unidentifiable Lords 'Riglinton' and 'Clinton').2 Belgrave and Gifford were in France in 1787;3 Belgrave was in Geneva that summer, and in the winter of 1787 - 8 he was in Italy with Gifford.4 William Gifford was probably the 'Gifford' seen in Rome on 9 December 1787.5
Belgrave was elected to Parliament on 22 April 1788 and he apparently made a second tour of Italy with Gifford in 1789, returning in 1790.6 Gifford subsequently published satires on the Della Cruscan poets in Florence (The Baviad and The Maeviad, 1794 and 1795).
1. W. Gifford, Memoir of Wm. Gifford, 26. 2. ASV IS 760. 3. R.B. Clark, Wm. Gifford, Tory Satirist, 10 - 11. 4. Watkins, Letters, 2:90n., 135. 5. Lloyd jnl.MSS. 6. DNB, sub. Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl. Clark (at n3).