Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond

Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond

Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond KG ( December 9, 1764 - August 28, 1819 ) was a British nobleman , general and politician.

Life

Charles was the only son of Lord George Henry Lennox (around 1738-1805) and his wife Louisa Kerr († 1830). His father was the youngest son of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701–1750).

In 1789 he joined the British Army and earned the rank of lieutenant colonel in an infantry regiment. From 1795 to 1798 he was aide-de-camp for King George III. In 1798 he was promoted to major-general , in 1805 to lieutenant-general and in 1814 to general .

From 1790 to 1806 he was a Member of the House of Commons as MP for Sussex . He retired from the House of Commons when he in 1806, upon the death of his uncle Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond , whose peerage as Duke of Richmond , Duke of Lennox and duc d'Aubigny inherited and thus a member of the House of Lords was .

From April 1807 to August 1813 he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . He opposed all efforts to relax at least some of the laws discriminating against Irish Catholics . In 1812 he let Lord Bathurst , War and Colonial Minister, know that he would only remain at his post in Ireland "if nothing was done for the Catholics". In 1810 he was awarded the Order of the Garter .

During Napoleon's “Hundred Days” , he commanded the Allied reserve to protect Brussels from a possible French attack. Like his grandfather, he was a keen promoter of cricket .

In 1818 Lennox went to Upper Canada as Governor General . There he died the following year of rabies after a fox bite .

Marriage and offspring

In 1789 he married Lady Charlotte Gordon (1768–1842), a daughter of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon , with whom he had the following children:

• Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (1791-1860);
• Lady Mary Lennox (1792–1847), ⚭ 1820 Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy;
• Lord John George Lennox (1793–1873), MP, ⚭ 1818 Louisa Fredericka Rodney;
• Lady Sarah Lennox (1794–1873), ⚭ 1815 General Sir Peregrine Maitland;
• Lady Georgiana Lennox (1795-1891), ⚭ 1824 William FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros ;
• Lord Henry Adam Lennox (1797-1812);
• Lord William Pitt Lennox (1799–1881), ⚭ 1. 1824 Mary Anne Paton, ⚭ 2. 1854 Ellen Smith, ⚭ 3. 1863 Maria Jane Molyneux;
• Lady Jane Lennox (1800–1861), ⚭ 1822 Laurence Peel;
• Lord Frederick Lennox (1801-1829);
• Lord Sussex Lennox (1802–1874), ⚭ 1828 Hon. Mary Margaret Lawless, daughter of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry ;
• Lady Louisa Maddelena Lennox (1803–1900), ⚭ 1825 William Frederick Fownes Tighe;
• Lady Charlotte Lennox (1804–1831), ⚭ 1823 Maurice Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge ;
• Lord Arthur Lennox (1806–1864), MP, ⚭ 1835 Adelaide Constance Campbell;
• Lady Sophia Georgina Lennox (1809–1902), ⚭ 1838 Lord Thomas Cecil, son of Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter .

Honors

The city of Richmond Hill in Ontario , Canada, is named after the Duke who is said to have passed through it in 1819, along with various other localities. The place Lennoxville and Richmond County in Nova Scotia also bear his name.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 16769 (August 31, 1813), p. 1723 .
2. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine , No. 114 (September 1813), p. 285.
3. ↑ George FG Stanley: Lennox, Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox . In: Francess G. Halpenny (ed.): Dictionary of Canadian Biography , Vol. 5: 1801 to 1820 . University of Toronto / Université Laval, Toronto / Québec 1983, pp. 488–490, citation p. 489.

Web links

• General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond on thepeerage.com

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles Lennox	Duke of Richmond Duke of Lennox 1806-1819	Charles Lennox
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1807-1813	Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth
John Coape Sherbrooke	Governor General of Canada 1818–1819	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie