Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton

Lord Wilton is the eldest son of Robert Egerton Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury and his first wife, Anne Acland-Troyte. He succeeded his father as 6th Baron Ebury in 1957 and his fourth cousin, Seymour Egerton, 7th Earl of Wilton, as 8th Earl of Wilton in 1999.

Lord Wilton is also heir presumptive to the title Marquess of Westminster currently held by his distant cousin Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster.

Following a career in the financial services industry in London, Melbourne and Hong Kong, Lord Wilton attained a doctorate in Philosophy-Arts at Melbourne University, going on to teach there as Dr Francis Ebury.

The Earl was a member of the Board of Directors of Victorian Opera (Melbourne).

Lord Wilton has married three times. He was married firstly on 10 December 1957 to Gilian Elfrida Astley Elfin Soames (marriage dissolved 1962). They had one son:

• Julian Francis Martin Grosvenor, Viscount Grey of Wilton (born 8 June 1959), married in 1987 to Danielle Rossi (divorced 1990), heir apparent to the earldom and subsidiary titles.

Secondly, he married Kyra Aslin on 8 March 1963 (marriage dissolved 1973) without issue.

Thirdly, he married Suzanne Jean Suckling (4 August 1943 - 12 April 2018) in 1974. They remained married until her death 44 years later and had one daughter:

• Lady Georgina Lucy Grosvenor (29 March 1973 — 16 August 2003), a noted violist, married in 2000 to Peter Mitev.

His third wife was a biographer who wrote under the name "Sue Ebury". (The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer; Weary the Life of Sir Edward Dunlop, Weary: King Of The River), She was also an editor and publisher, member of the Development Council of the National Library of Australia and Patroness of the Australian Garden History Society.

• The Honourable Francis Grosvenor (1934–1957)
• The Right Honourable The Lord Ebury (1957–1999)
• The Right Honourable The Earl of Wilton (1999–present)

• , Dr Francis Ebury, University of Melbourne: Publications
• , The Peerage
• , Cracrofts Peerage

• The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility Saunders and Otley, 1838