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At the onset of WW1, the Duchess of Rutland converted Rutland House in Arlington Street into a Hospital for Officers.  Her bedroom became the operating theatre and the ballroom and gilded drawing room wards.  (The family home, Belvoir Castle near Grantham, Leicestershire, also became a military convalescent home for officers.  It too was run by the Duchess).

The Rutland Hospital for Officers had 17 beds and was affiliated to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital in Millbank.

The Duke and Duchess's youngest daughter, Lady Diana Manners, had qualified as a nurse after six months' training at Guy's Hospital (despite her mother's concern at her working in such an uncongenial place) and became chief assistant to her mother at the Hospital.

The Hospital presumably closed in 1918.

Present status (June 2010)

After her husband's death in 1925 Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland, sold the property in 1934 to the Royal Over-Seas League and moved to No. 34 Chapel Street, Belgravia, where she died in 1937.

Today the Grade I listed gatehouse has been converted into office space, with a luxury residential apartment on part of the lower ground floor.  It is currently being offered for sale for £1.5m by Amsprop, a company owned by Lord Sugar.