Colonel Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 7th Duke of Richmond b. 27 Dec. 1845 Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England d. 18 Jan. 1928 Goodwood, Sussex, England

1845 - 1928 (82 years)

Name	Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox) [1]
Title	Colonel
Suffix	7th Duke of Richmond
Born	27 Dec. 1845	Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England [1]
Gender	Male
Education	From 1859 to 1863	Eton, Buckinghamshire, England [2]
	Eton College
Census	7 April 1861	Molecomb House, Singleton, Sussex, England [3]
Military Service	From 1865 to 1869 [2]
	Grenadier Guards
Office	From 1869 to 1885 [2]
	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Chichester Division
	Conservative
Office	From 1869 to 1885 [2]
	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for West Sussex
	Conservative
Office	From 1885 to 1903 [2]
	Ecclesiastical Commissioner
Decoration	From 1896 to 1901 [2]
	Militia A.D.C. to Queen Victoria
Decoration	From 1901 to 1910 [2]
	Militia A.D.C. to Edward VII
Military Service	From 1901 to 1902 [2]
	South African War
	Mentioned in despatches
Office	From 1901 to 1926 [2]
	Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons, Sussex
Decoration	1902 [2]
	Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.)
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	2nd Duke of Gordon [U.K., 1876]
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	2nd Earl of Kinrara [U.K., 1876]
	"Torboltoun" (only) in the patent (Mag. Sig.) as quoted in Wood's Douglas, volume ii, page 688, but "Tarbolton" in Scots Peerage, volume v, page 363, and "Methven of Torboltoun" according to the later peerages. See also Cal. S. P. Dom., 1679–80, page 616.
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	7th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	7th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	7th Duke of Richmond [E., 1675]
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	7th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	7th Earl of March [E., 1675]
Hereditary Title	From 27 Sept. 1903 to 18 Jan. 1928 [1]
	7th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
Decoration	1904 [2]
	Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.)
Decoration	18 Dec. 1905 [2]
	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
Decoration	From 1910 [2]
	Militia A.D.C. to George V
Military Service	Colonel, 3rd Royal Sussex Regiment [2]
Office	Lord-Lieutenant for Moray and Banffshire [2]
Office	1917 [2]
	Chancellor of Aberdeen University
Occupation	Steward of the Jockey Club [2]
Died	18 Jan. 1928	Goodwood, Sussex, England [2]
Buried	21 Jan. 1928	Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England [2]
Person ID	I960	British Peerage & Gentry
Last Modified	22 April 2019

Father	Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 6th Duke of Richmond, b. 27 Feb. 1818, Richmond House, Whitehall Gardens, London, England , d. 27 Sept. 1903, Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland (Age 85 years)
Mother	Frances Harriet Greville, b. 8 March 1824, London, Middlesex, England , d. 8 March 1887, Goodwood, Sussex, England (Age 63 years)
Married	28 Nov. 1843	St. George's, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England [4]
Family ID	F524	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Amy Mary Ricardo, b. 10 Oct. 1848, d. 23 Aug. 1879, Grosvenor Crescent, Belgravia, London, Middlesex, England (Age 30 years)

Married 10 Nov. 1868 St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, England [2]

Children

+	1. Colonel Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 8th Duke of Richmond, b. 30 Dec. 1870, d. 7 May 1935, Goodwood, Sussex, England (Age 64 years)
	2. Lady Evelyn Amy Gordon-Lennox, b. 23 April 1872, d. 17 Feb. 1922 (Age 49 years)
	3. Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox, b. 15 Jan. 1874, d. 19 Nov. 1946 (Age 72 years)
+	4. Brig.-Gen. Lord Esmé Charles Gordon-Lennox, b. 10 Feb. 1875, d. 4 May 1949 (Age 74 years)
+	5. Major Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox, b. 1 May 1878, d. 10 Nov. 1914 (Age 36 years)

Last Modified 20 April 2019

Family ID F527 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 Isobel Sophia Craven, b. 28 April 1863, d. 20 Nov. 1887 (Age 24 years)

Married 3 July 1882 Chapel Royal, Savoy, London, Middlesex, England [2]

Children

	1. Lady Muriel Beatrice Gordon-Lennox, d. 13 April 1969
	2. Lady Helen Magdalen Gordon-Lennox, d. 13 June 1965

Last Modified 20 April 2019

Family ID F530 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Heraldry

Arms of the Duke of Richmond
Quarterly: 1st and 4th grand quarters, the Royal Arms of Charles II (viz. quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland); the whole within a bordure company argent charged with roses gules barbed and seeded proper and the last; overall an escutcheon gules charged with three buckles or (the Dukedom of Aubigny); 2nd grand quarter, argent a saltire engrailed gules between four roses of the second barbed and seeded proper (Lennox); 3rd grand quarter, quarterly, 1st, azure three boars' heads couped or (Gordon); 2nd, or three lions' heads erased gules (Badenoch); 3rd, or three crescents within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules (Seton); 4th, azure three cinquefoils argent (Fraser).

Notes
Carried the sceptre with the dove at the Coronation of George V, 22 June 1911. [1]

Sources

[S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume XIV, page 545.
[S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 847.
[S36] 1861 England and Wales Census, class RG9, piece 621, folio 19A, page 1.
[S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 846.

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Colonel Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 7th Duke of Richmond