Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond explained

Honorific-Prefix:His Grace
The Duke of Richmond
Order1:President of the Board of Trade
Term Start2:8 March 1867
Term End2:1 December 1868
Monarch2:Victoria
Primeminister2:The Earl of Derby
Benjamin Disraeli
Predecessor2:Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt
Successor2:John Bright
Term Start1:24 June 1885
Term End1:19 August 1885
Monarch1:Victoria
Primeminister1:The Marquess of Salisbury
Predecessor1:Joseph Chamberlain
Successor1:Hon. Edward Stanhope
Order3:Leader of the House of Lords
Term Start3:21 February 1874
Term End3:21 August 1876
Monarch3:Victoria
Primeminister3:Benjamin Disraeli
Predecessor3:The Earl Granville
Successor3:The Earl of Beaconsfield
Order4:Lord President of the Council
Term Start4:21 February 1874
Term End4:28 April 1880
Monarch4:Victoria
Primeminister4:Benjamin Disraeli
Predecessor4:The Lord Aberdare
Successor4:The Earl Spencer
Order5:President of the Poor Law Board
Term Start5:7 March 1859
Term End5:11 June 1859
Monarch5:Victoria
Primeminister5:The Earl of Derby
Predecessor5:Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt
Successor5:Charles Pelham Villiers
Office8:Member of the House of Lords
Status8:Lord Temporal
Term Start8:22 October 1860
Term End8:27 September 1903
Predecessor8:The 5th Duke of Richmond
Successor8:The 7th Duke of Richmond
Office9:Member of Parliament
for West Sussex
Term Start9:22 July 1841
Term End9:21 October 1860
Predecessor9:Lord John Lennox
Successor9:Sir Walter Barttelot
Birth Date:27 February 1818
Birth Place:Richmond House, London
Birth Name:Charles Henry Lennox
Death Place:Gordon Castle, Morayshire
Nationality:British
Party:Conservative
Alma Mater:Christ Church, Oxford
Spouse:Frances Harriett Greville
Children:6, including Charles and Walter
Parents:Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
Lady Caroline Paget

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Gordon, (27 February 1818 – 27 September 1903), styled the Earl of March until 1860, was a British Conservative politician.

Background and education

Born at Richmond House, London, he was the son of Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, and his wife Lady Caroline Paget, daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, where he had a short career as a cricketer. He served in the Royal Horse Guards and was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington. Charles was born with the surname Lennox; when his father inherited the Gordon estates from his uncle, the father took the surname Gordon-Lennox for himself and his issue, by royal licence dated 9 August 1836.

He owned 286,000 acres mostly in Banff, Aberdeen and Inverness. His Sussex holdings were 17,000 acres. By 1883, he had an income of £80,000 a year.[1]

Political career

March entered politics as member for West Sussex in 1841. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1859. In 1860, he succeeded his father as Duke of Richmond and entered the House of Lords. He chaired the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, which reported in 1866, and the Royal Commission on Water Supply in 1869, which concluded that there was a need for some sort of overall planning of water supplies for domestic use.

He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1867, and filled various positions in government in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby, Disraeli and the marquess of Salisbury.[2] In 1876 he was rewarded for his public service by being created Duke of Gordon and Earl of Kinrara in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was also Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen from 1861 until his death at Gordon Castle in 1903.

Family

Richmond married Frances Harriett Greville, daughter of Algernon Greville, on 28 November 1843. They had six children:

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Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/details/greatlandownerso00bateuoft/page/380/mode/1up?q=richmond The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
  2. Richmond, Earls and Dukes of. 23. 307. Ronald John. McNeill. Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun.
  3. Web site: Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox . Gordon Chapel . 10 August 2019 . 23 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210423180109/https://gordonchapel.weebly.com/lady-caroline-gordon-lennox.html . dead .