Catalogue description CHARLES LENNOX (AFTERWARDS GORDON LENNOX), 5TH DUKE OF RICHMOND, LENNOX AND AUBIGNY, K.G., P.C., F.R.S., 1791-1860

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Title: CHARLES LENNOX (AFTERWARDS GORDON LENNOX), 5TH DUKE OF RICHMOND, LENNOX AND AUBIGNY, K.G., P.C., F.R.S., 1791-1860
Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Publication note:

See Memoir of Charles Gordon Lennox, Fifth Duke of Richmond, K.G., P.C. (1862); John Kent, Records and Reminiscences of Goodwood and the Dukes of Richmond (1896).
Subjects:
  • Lennox, Charles, 1791-1860, 5th Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Aubigny
  • Lennox, Charles, Gordon, 1791-1860, 5th Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Aubigny
  • Gordon Lennox, Charles, 1791-1860, 5th Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Aubigny
Administrative / biographical background:

Born in London, 3 Aug. 1791. Died in London, 21 Oct. 1860; bur. in Chichester cathedral.

 

Styled Earl of March until 1819 when he succeeded his father, the 4th Duke.

 

Married 10 April 1817, Caroline, eldest dau. of Henry William, 1st Marquess of Anglesey; she died in London, 12 March 1874.

 

Children:--

 

Charles Henry (afterwards 6th Duke), born 27 Feb. 1818.

 

Lord Fitzroy George Charles Gordon-Lennox (1820-1841).

 

Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox (1821-1886), mar. Amelia Susannah, widow of John White.

 

Lord Alexander Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox (1825-1892), mar. Emily Frances Townley.

 

Lord George Charles Gordon-Lennox (1829-1877), mar. Augusta Mehetable Palmer, widow of Edwin Adolphus Cook.

 

Caroline Amelia (d. 1890), mar. John George, 5th Earl of Bessborough.

 

Augusta Katherine (d. 1904), mar. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar.

 

Lucy Frances (d. 1843).

 

Amelia Frederica (d. 1841).

 

Cecilia Catherine (d. 1910), mar. George, 4th Earl of Lucan.

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