Social Victorians/People/Richmond and Gordon

Also Known As

• 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.
    • 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)
      • 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)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox

• Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield

Organizations

Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox

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

Timeline

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

1852, Amelia Susannah Smith and Richard Archibald Brooman married.

1868, Amelia Susannah Smith Brooman and John White married.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1897 June 28, Monday, according to the Morning Post, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox, 2nd Duke of Gordon was invited to the 28 June Queen's Garden Party, the official end of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London.

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

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.

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Family

• Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon (27 February 1818 – 27 September 1903)
• Frances Harriett Greville Gordon-Lennox (8 March 1824 – 8 March 1887)

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)
• Amy Mary Ricardo Gordon-Lennox (24 June 1847 – 23 August 1879)

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)

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)
• Richard Archibald Brooman ()
  1. Richard Charles Brooman (c. 1853 – )
• John White (c. 1810 – )
• Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox (2 November 1821 – 29 August 1886)

Relations

• 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.