Social Victorians/People/Richmond and Gordon

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Also Known As[edit | edit source]

  • Family name: Gordon-Lennox
  • Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox and Lady H. Lennox
  • Duke of Richmond and Gordon
    • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke (1860 – 27 September 1903)
    • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke (27 September 1903 – 18 January 1928)
  • Duchess of Richmond and Gordon
    • Frances Harriett Greville Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke (1860 – 8 March 1887)
    • Isabel Sophie Craven Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke (8 March 1887 – 20 November 1887)
    • After Isabel Sophie Craven Gordon-Lennox died on 20 November 1887, the 7th Duke did not remarry, so there was no Duchess of Richmond and Gordon between then and 18 January 1928.
    • Technically, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon is also the Duke of Lennox, and a number of subsidiary titles are associated with the three dukedoms, including the Earl of March and Baron of Settrington.[1]
      • Earl of March — the Earl of March and Kinrara (after 1876; Earl of March before) is a courtesy title for the eldest son and heir presumptive of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon.
        • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke (1860 – 27 September 1903)[2]
        • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke (27 September 1903 – 7 May 1935)
      • Baron of Settrington, a courtesy title for the eldest son of the Earl of March and Kinrara
        • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke ( – 1860)
        • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke (1860 – 27 September 1903)

Demographics[edit | edit source]

  • Nationality: British[3]

Family[edit | edit source]

  • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon (27 February 1818 – 27 September 1903)[4]
  • Frances Harriett Greville Gordon-Lennox (8 March 1824 – 8 March 1887)[5]
  1. Lady Caroline Gordon-Lennox (12 October 1844 – 2 November 1934), never married
  2. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond (27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928)
  3. Colonel Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox (19 September 1847 – 3 October 1921)
  4. Captain Lord Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox (30 July 1849 – 1 January 1886)
  5. Lady Florence Gordon-Lennox (21 June 1851 – 21 July 1895)
  6. Rt. Hon. Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox (29 July 1865 – 21 October 1922)


  • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox, 2nd Duke of Gordon (27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928)[6]
  • Amy Mary Ricardo Gordon-Lennox (24 June 1847 – 23 August 1879)[7]
  1. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (30 December 1870 – 7 May 1935)
  2. Evelyn Amy Gordon-Lennox (23 April 1872 – 17 February 1922)
  3. Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (15 January 1874 – 19 November 1946)
  4. Esmé Charles Gordon-Lennox (10 February 1875 – 4 May 1949)
  5. Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox (1 May 1878 – 10 November 1914)
  • Isabel Sophie Craven Gordon-Lennox (28 April 1863 – 20 November 1887)[8]
  1. Muriel Beatrice Gordon-Lennox (1884 – 13 April 1969)
  2. Helen Magdalan Gordon-Lennox (13 December 1886 – 13 June 1965)


  • Amelia Susannah Smith (1831 – 6 February 1903)[9]
  • Richard Archibald Brooman ()[10]
    1. Richard Charles Brooman (c. 1853 – )
  • John White (c. 1810 – )[11]
  • Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox (2 November 1821 – 29 August 1886)[12]

Relations[edit | edit source]

  • Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox was the son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, and the brother of Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond.

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies[edit | edit source]

Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox[edit | edit source]

  • Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield

Organizations[edit | edit source]

Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox[edit | edit source]

  • The Prebendal School, Chichester[3]
  • University of Oxford[3]
  • Member of Parliament, Conservative, for Chichester (1846–1885)[12]
  • Secretary of the Admiralty, 1868[12]
  • Director, Lisbon Tramways[3]
  • First Commissioner of Works (1874–1876)[12]

Timeline[edit | edit source]

1843 November 28, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (6th Duke) and Frances Harriett Greville married.[13]

1852, Amelia Susannah Smith and Richard Archibald Brooman married.[9]

1868, Amelia Susannah Smith Brooman and John White married.[9]

1868 November 10, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (7th Duke) and Amy Mary Ricardo married.[7]

1876, "The 6th Duke of Richmond and Lennox was created Duke of Gordon (See Clan Gordon) in 1876."[1]

1876, Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox resigned as First Commissioner of Works because of the Twycross v Grant case concerning the Lisbon Tramways swindle.[3]

1882 July 3, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (7th Duke) and Isabel Sophie Craven married.[8]

1883 January 25, Amelia Smith Brooman White and Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox married.[9]

1893 June 8, Hilda Madeline Brassey and Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox married.[14]

1894 June 30, Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey and Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox married.[15]

1887 March 8, Frances, Duchess of Richmond died, after which Lady Caroline Gordon-Lennox acted as chatelaine.[4]

1897 July 2, Lady H. Lennox attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House, as did Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox and Lady Blanche Gordon-Lennox (handled on the Gordon-Lennox page).

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball[edit | edit source]

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Lady H. Lennox (at 189) sat at Table 9 at the first seating for supper, escorted in by Montagu Lowry-Corry, Lord Rowton.[16]

Questions and Notes[edit | edit source]

Footnotes[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Duke of Richmond". Wikipedia. 2020-10-05. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke_of_Richmond&oldid=982008642. 
  2. ↑ "Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond". Wikipedia. 2020-07-27. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Gordon-Lennox,_7th_Duke_of_Richmond&oldid=969813249. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Lord Henry Lennox". Wikipedia. 2021-08-15. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_Henry_Lennox&oldid=1038934988.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Henry_Lennox.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond". Wikipedia. 2020-09-08. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Gordon-Lennox,_6th_Duke_of_Richmond&oldid=977375673. 
  5. ↑ "Frances Harriett Greville." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  6. ↑ "Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Amy Mary Ricardo." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Isabel Sophie Craven." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Amelia Susannah Smith." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21. https://www.thepeerage.com/p6656.htm#i66553.
  10. ↑ "Richard Archibald Brooman." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21. https://www.thepeerage.com/p70242.htm#i702414.
  11. ↑ " John White." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21. https://www.thepeerage.com/p27451.htm#i274505.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21. https://www.thepeerage.com/p6656.htm#i66552.
  13. ↑ "Algernon Greville". Wikipedia. 2019-04-27. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Algernon_Greville&oldid=894365575. 
  14. ↑ "Hilda Madeline Brassey." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  15. ↑ "Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  16. ↑ "Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House." Morning Post Saturday 3 July 1897: 7 [of 12], Col. 4a–8 Col. 2b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970703/054/0007.
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