英國第三大富豪去世 留給25歲兒子90億鎊

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined members of the Royal Family in paying tribute to the Duke of Westminster, who died suddenly on Tuesday.
威斯敏斯特公爵本週二過世，劍橋公爵與公爵夫人和皇室家庭成員一同向其致敬。

Billionaire duke, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor – the third richest man in Britain who was worth an estimated £9 billion- is believed to have died of a heart attack at the age of just 64 on Tuesday afternoon.
傑拉爾德·卡文迪什·格羅夫納公爵，是英國第三富，身價數十億，達90億英鎊之多。據稱，週二下午死於心臟病突發，年僅64歲。

The father-of-four, the 6th Duke, was the richest property developer in the UK, whose vast wealth comes from estates in Oxford, Cheshire, and Scotland as well as huge swathes of Mayfair and Belgravia.
第六代威斯敏斯特公爵膝下有四個孩子，是英國最富有的地產開發商。地產覆蓋牛津、柴郡、蘇格蘭和梅費爾和貝爾格雷夫大片土地。

His tragic death means that his son Hugh will now inherit the entire estate, including the family seat in Cheshire, Eaton Hall, at the age of just 25.
公爵不幸過世，他25歲的兒子休將會繼承其所有房產，包括柴郡的宅邸和伊頓莊園。

Friends described him as an 'introspective' man, one who was lonely in many ways, and, it has been reported, came close to a nervous breakdown in 1998, when he said the pressures of business and the great number of public appearances he was making overcame him.
朋友們稱他爲“自省”者，在諸多方面都很孤寂。據報道，1998年曾精神崩潰，生意壓力過大、一直要拋頭露面讓他不堪重負。

Gerald Grosvenor was passionate about helping those less fortunate than him, working for many years with young offenders and drug abusers as well as campaigning on rural issues. During the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak he donated £500,000 to farmers affected by the crisis.
傑拉爾德·格羅夫納熱衷幫助運道不及他的人們，多年來一直爲少年犯還有嗑藥者奔忙，還致力於鄉村問題。2001年手足口病爆發，他給受此危機影響的農夫們捐贈了50萬英鎊。

In his early 20s, on becoming trustee of the estate, he had been forced to abandon his dream of a career in the Armed Forces, but later satisfied his love of all things military by serving in the Territorial Army.
在20多歲出頭、剛剛成爲房產理事的時候，他不得不放棄自己夢想的從軍事業，不過後來在英國本土防衛自衛隊服役，滿足了軍旅之心。

During the second half of the 20th century, his business expanded into the Americas and developed Annacis Island and Vancouver in Canada in the 1950s.
20世紀下半葉，他的產業擴張至美洲；在50年代，發展了加拿大阿納西斯島和溫哥華地區。