Gordon-Lennox family, Dukes of Richmond and Gordon

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Date:	1300-2000
History:	Charles Lennox, a natural son of King Charles II, was created Duke of Richmond in 1675 and granted lands in Scotland and Yorkshire (later sold). Through his grandmother, the Duchess of Portsmouth (d. 1734), the 2nd Duke inherited the French estate of Aubigny (divided among members of the family in the 1830s). The Sussex estate, beginning with a small purchase in 1695, was greatly enlarged by the 3rd Duke between 1750 and 1806. The Gordon (formerly Seton) family rose to prominence in Scottish affairs in the 15th and 16th centuries. They were created Earls of Huntly c.1445, Marquesses of Huntly in 1599 and Dukes of Gordon in 1684. On the death of the 5th Duke in 1836 his extensive estates centred on Gordon Castle and Glenlivet (Morayshire and Banffshire), Huntly (Aberdeenshire) and Badenoch and Lochaber (Inverness-shire) passed mainly to his nephew, the 5th Duke of Richmond, the dukedom of Gordon being revived for the 6th Duke of Richmond in 1876. The Gordon Castle and other estates were sold to the Crown in 1937. Estates in 1883: 17,117 acres in Sussex; 2 acres in Yorkshire; 159,952 acres in Banffshire; 69,660 acres in Aberdeenshire; 27,409 acres in Inverness-shire; 12,271 acres in Morayshire; worth a total of £79,683 a year.
Places:	Fochabers, Moray Glenfiddich Lodge, Banffshire Glenlivet, Banffshire Goodwood, Sussex Gordon Castle, Moray Harmony Hall, Trinidad Huntly, Aberdeenshire Kinrara Lodge, Inverness-shire Lochaber, Inverness-shire
Sources of authority:	Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Principal family and estate collections, 1996, pp. 68-9.
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F84532 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F1549 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1940s-1980s: files of the 9th Duke of Richmond; Goodwood curatorial files;	West Sussex Record Office	19403	See Annual Return 2019
2	14th cent-20th cent: Sussex (Goodwood, etc) deeds, manorial records, family and estate papers 14th-20th cent, with misc deeds and papers rel to other English counties 16th cent-1902 and papers rel to estates in Scotland 19th cent and France (Aubigny) 18th cent-1838	West Sussex Record Office	Goodwood MSS	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [42a]
3	1730: Goodwood (Sussex) architectural drawings	West Sussex Record Office	Acc 10110	See Annual Return 1995
4	17th-19th cent: additional Goodwood estate records	West Sussex Record Office	Acc 16183	See Annual Return 2011
5	14th cent-20th cent: Aberdeenshire (Huntly, etc), Banffshire (Glenlivet, etc), Inverness-shire (Lochaber, etc) and Moray (Gordon Castle, etc) writs, legal, estate, fishery and ecclesiastical accounts and papers and Gordon family papers 14th-20th cent, with Harmony Hall (Trinidad) estate papers 1807-20	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD44	See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [42b]
6	18th cent-19th cent: Banffshire (Glenlivet, etc), Inverness-shire (Lochaber, etc) and Moray (Gordon Castle, etc) estate accounts and papers	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	CR 6, CR 8, RHP 1746-55, 1762-1854, 2210-2512	See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 42c]
7	1683-1879: Inverness-shire (Lochaber, etc) estate accounts and papers, etc	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD128/6/1-5	NRA 10992 Fraser-Mackintosh See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [42d]
8	1753: Inverness-shire (Lochaber, etc) abstract of estate rents and feu duty accounts	Highland Archives	D307	See Guide to the Highland Council Archive p73
9	1691: Inverness-shire (Lochaber, etc) estate valuation	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD248	NRA 32594 Ogilvie-Grant See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [75a]
10	1793-1803: misc Gordon family vouchers (4th Duke and Duchess of Gordon)	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD241	NRA 10441 Thomson See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [42e]
11	17th cent-20th cent: Gordon and Gordon-Lennox family legal and trust papers 17th-20th cent, with misc Scottish estate papers 18th-20th cent	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD247	NRA 10747 Brodie See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [42f]
12	1721-1826: Lennox family papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Loan MS 57	NRA 20952 Bathurst
13	1738, 1837-41: additional Goodwood records incl election accounts	West Sussex Record Office	Acc 15501	See Annual Return 2009
14	1818-1819: Canadian papers of the 4th Duke of Richmond (1764-1819)	Queen's University Archives	Lennox	NRA 41277 See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986 p35
15	1805-1813: Irish lieutenancy papers of the 4th Duke of Richmond, with some as Colonel of the 35th Regiment	Kent History and Library Centre	U 269/O213-16	NRA 8575 Sackville See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989 p61
16	1794-1818: political corresp of the 4th Duke of Richmond	National Library of Ireland	MSS 58-75A	See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989 p61
17	1892: New Zealand travel diary of the 8th Duke of Richmond (1870-1953)	West Sussex Record Office	Acc 11964	See Annual Return 2000
18	20th cent: additional records incl files rel to restoration of the Egyptian Dining Room	West Sussex Record Office	Acc14941	See Annual Return 2007
19	20th cent: Goodwood Estate sawmill leases and plans	West Sussex Record Office	17742
20	1885-1967: visitors books for Goodwood	West Sussex Record Office	19277	See Annual Return 2018
21	1842-1989: Goodwood estate material	West Sussex Record Office	19569	See Annual Return 2019
22	1926-2011: Goodwood estate records	West Sussex Record Office	19570	See Annual Return 2019