Frederick Charles (Gordon-Lennox), 9th Duke of Richmond

1904 - 1989  (85 years)

• Name	Frederick Charles (Gordon-Lennox)  [1]
  Suffix	9th Duke of Richmond
  Birth	5 Feb. 1904  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Education	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [2]
  	Christ Church, University of Oxford
  Education	From 1917 to 1920	Eton, Buckinghamshire, England   [2]
  	Eton College
  Military Service	1925  [2]
  	Lieutenant, 98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry) Brigade R.F.A.
  Military Service	From 1926 to 1928  [2]
  	22nd (London) Armoured Car Co.
  Hereditary Title	From 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	4th Duke of Gordon [U.K., 1876]
  Hereditary Title	From 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	4th 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 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	9th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	9th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	9th Duke of Richmond [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	9th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	9th Earl of March [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 7 May 1935 to 2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  	9th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
  Military Service	Flight-Lieutenant, Royal Air Force  [2]
  	During the Second World War.
  Death	2 Nov. 1989  [2]
  Person ID	I976	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	20 April 2019

  
  

  Father	Colonel Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 8th Duke of Richmond,   b. 30 Dec. 1870   d. 7 May 1935, Goodwood, Sussex, England (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Hilda Madeleine Brassey
  Marriage	8 June 1893	St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Family ID	F533	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Grace Hudson   d. 1992
  Marriage	15 Dec. 1927	Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, Chelsea, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 10th Duke of Richmond,   b. 19 Sept. 1929   d. 1 Sept. 2017 (Age 87 years) + 2. Lord Nicholas Charles Gordon-Lennox,   b. 31 Jan. 1931   d. 11 Oct. 2004 (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F536	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 April 2019

  
  

• 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 VI, 12 May 1937, and of Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 847. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume XIV, page 546.