Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (photograph, around 1880)

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond KG , PC (born February 27, 1818 in Richmond House , London , † September 27, 1903 in Gordon Castle , Morayshire ), was a British conservative politician .

Life

Charles was a son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond , and his wife Caroline Paget. He attended Westminster School and studied at the Christ Church of University of Oxford , where he received a brief career as a cricketer completed. He then served as an officer in the Royal Horse Guards from 1839 and became a member of the House of Commons for Sussex West in 1841 . Here he belonged to the Conservative Party. 1842–52 he was adjutant at Wellington and 1852–54 at his successor Lord Hardinge .

In the course of his political career he became Privy Counselor in 1859 and also held the post of director of the Poor Law Board under Derby from March to June 1859 . He followed his father after his death (October 21, 1860) as Duke of Richmond , Duke of Lennox , Duc d'Aubigny and in other nobility titles and entered the House of Lords . From 1861 he was Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen until his death . After the Conservatives came back to power, he was awarded the Order of the Garter in 1867 . 1867-68 he was President of the Board of Trade and took over when his party resigned in December 1868 their leadership in the House of Lords. 1874-80 he served in the government of Benjamin Disraeli as Lord President of the Council , he was also Leader of the House of Lords from 1874 to 1876 , until Disraeli (as Lord Beaconsfield) was ennobled by Queen Victoria and performed this function himself. On January 13, 1876 he was raised as heir to his great-uncle Duke of Gordon and Earl of Kinrara . From 1879 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire . Under Prime Minister Salisbury he was again President of the Board of Trade from June to August 1885 and Secretary of State for Scotland from August 1885 to January 1886. In the second cabinet formed by Salisbury in July 1886, however, he no longer took office.

progeny

The Duke married on November 28, 1843 in London Frances Harriet (1824-1887), daughter of Algernon Frederick Greville, with whom he had the following children:

• Lady Caroline Elizabeth Gordon-Lennox (1844-1934);
• Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond (1845-1928);
• Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox (1847–1921), ⚭ 1886 Blanche Maynard;
• Lord Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox (1849-1886);
• Lady Florence Gordon-Lennox (1851-1895);
• Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox (1865-1922); ⚭ 1889 Alice Elizabeth Ogilvie-Grant.

literature

• Lloyd Charles Sanders: Gordon-Lennox, Charles Henry, sixth duke of Richmond and first duke of Gordon . In: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), Supplements from 1912, Vol. 2, pp. 129-131.

Web links

• Earl of March at Hansard (English)
• Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry Bruce	Lord President of the Council 1874-1880	John Spencer
James Duff	Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire 1879–1903	Charles Gordon-Lennox
Office newly created	Minister for Scotland 1885–1886	George Trevelyan
Charles Gordon-Lennox	Duke of Richmond Duke of Lennox 1860-1903	Charles Gordon-Lennox
New title created	Duke of Gordon 1876-1903	Charles Gordon-Lennox