Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond KG , GCVO , CB (born December 27, 1845 in London , † January 18, 1928 ), was a British politician and nobleman .
Charles was the eldest son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond , and his wife Frances Harriet Greville. As his father's apparent marriage , he carried the courtesy title Earl of March from 1860 .
He was trained at Eton College and then joined the British Army as an officer in the Grenadier Guards . He was a member of the Conservative Party and was a Member of the House of Commons from 1869 to 1885 for West Sussex and from 1885 to 1888 for Chichester . He then became Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire and Morayshire . With the rank of Colonel of the 3rd Royal Sussex Regiment he fought in the Second Boer War and was Mentioned in dispatches . In 1902 he was named Companion of the Order of the Bath . He served as aide-de-camp for Queen Victoria from 1896 to 1903 , for King Edward VII from 1903 to 1910, and for King George V from 1910 to 1920 .
When his father died in 1903, he inherited the title of Duke of Richmond , Lennox and Gordon and became a member of the House of Lords . In 1904 he was promoted to the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and became Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex . In 1905 he was accepted as a Knight Companion in the Order of the Garter and was Justice of the Peace for Sussex. In 1917 he was appointed Chancellor of Aberdeen University .
In 1868 he married Amy Mary Ricardo (1848–1879), with whom he had five children:
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (1870-1935);
- Lady Evelyn Amy Gordon-Lennox (1872–1922), ⚭ Sir John Richard Geers Cotterell, 4th Baronet;
- Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (1874–1946), ⚭ 1894 Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe ;
- Lord Esmé Charles Gordon-Lennox (1875-1949);
- Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox (1878-1914), fallen;
His second marriage was in 1882 with Isabel Sophie Craven (1863–1887), a granddaughter of Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke , with whom he had two other daughters:
- Lady Muriel Betarice Gordon-Lennox (1884–1968), ⚭ (1) 1904–1933 William Malebisse Beckwith, ⚭ (2) 1933 Lewis Derek Jones;
- Lady Helen Magdalan Gordon-Lennox (1886–1965), ⚭ 1911 Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland .
Web links
- Earl of March at Hansard (English)
- Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
- Genealogics
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Charles Gordon-Lennox |
Duke of Richmond, Duke of Lennox, Duke of Gordon 1903-1928 |
Charles Gordon-Lennox |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gordon-Lennox, Charles, 7th Duke of Richmond |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gordon-Lennox, Charles Henry, 7th Duke of Richmond; Gordon-Lennox, Charles, Earl of March |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and politician, member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1928 |