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# Brown Hart Gardens: A Duke's Vision for the Working Poor Standing at Brown Hart Gardens in 1899, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, the first Duke of Westminster, realized his ambitious vision for social responsibility among London's working classes by transforming this very patch of London into a model of in...

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Hugh Lupus first Duke of Westminster KC lesser to the improved industrial dwellings cov. ltd. of this and other buildings on his London estate accommodating nearly 4000 persons of the working class. The friend and benefactor of his poorer brethren. 1899