Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November 1977) is a British art dealer and art historian.The grandson of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury, Bendor was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia where he completed his PhD entitled "The Politics of Foreign Policy: Lord Derby and the Eastern Crisis, 1875-8" in 2009. He joined Philip Mould Ltd in 2005 where he oversees research, cataloguing and acquisitions. He is 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. He has made several important discoveries of lost works by Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir Anthony Van Dyck. He also works as a journalist and writer, and has appeared in the BBC TV show Fake or Fortune?. He also presents programmes for BBC2's The Culture Show.Grosvenor discovered the Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay at Gosford House, the home of the Earl of Wemyss near Edinburgh,The name Bendor is derived from the Grosvenor family's medieval heraldic shield, a bend or, a golden bend (diagonal stripe), which they used until 1389 when it was claimed instead by the Scrope family.[citation needed] In the nineteenth century the first Duke of Westminster bred a Derby winning race-horse named Bend Or.[citation needed] The Duke also awarded it as a nickname to his grandson Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953), born in the year before the Derby win.[citation needed]. }
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- Bendor_Grosvenor abstract "Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November 1977) is a British art dealer and art historian.The grandson of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury, Bendor was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia where he completed his PhD entitled "The Politics of Foreign Policy: Lord Derby and the Eastern Crisis, 1875-8" in 2009. He joined Philip Mould Ltd in 2005 where he oversees research, cataloguing and acquisitions. He is 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. He has made several important discoveries of lost works by Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir Anthony Van Dyck. He also works as a journalist and writer, and has appeared in the BBC TV show Fake or Fortune?. He also presents programmes for BBC2's The Culture Show.Grosvenor discovered the Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay at Gosford House, the home of the Earl of Wemyss near Edinburgh,The name Bendor is derived from the Grosvenor family's medieval heraldic shield, a bend or, a golden bend (diagonal stripe), which they used until 1389 when it was claimed instead by the Scrope family.[citation needed] In the nineteenth century the first Duke of Westminster bred a Derby winning race-horse named Bend Or.[citation needed] The Duke also awarded it as a nickname to his grandson Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953), born in the year before the Derby win.[citation needed]".