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