Charles (Gordon-Lennox), 5th Duke of Richmond

1791 - 1860  (69 years)

• Name	Charles (Gordon-Lennox)  [1]
  Suffix	5th Duke of Richmond
  Born	3 Aug. 1791	Richmond House, Whitehall Gardens, London, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	to 1809	Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  	Westminster School
  Education	From 28 Oct. 1809 to 1813	Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland   [1]
  	Trinity College, Dublin
  	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
  Office	From 1812 to 1819  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Chichester
  	Tory
  Office	From 1819 to 1860  [1]
  	Colonel of the Sussex Militia
  Hereditary Title	From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860  [1]
  	5th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860  [1]
  	5th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860  [1]
  	5th Duke of Richmond [E., 1675]
  	"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 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860  [1]
  	5th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860  [1]
  	5th Earl of March [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860  [1]
  	5th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
  Decoration	12 May 1829  [1]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  Office	From Nov. 1830 to May 1834  [1]
  	Postmaster-General
  Office	22 Nov. 1830  [1]
  	Privy Councillor (P.C.)
  Office	1831  [2]
  	Vice-Admiral of Sussex
  Office	1832  [2]
  	Militia A.D.C. to William IV
  Office	From 1835 to 1860  [2]
  	Lord Lieutenant of Sussex
  Office	From 1836 to 1860  [2]
  	Chancellor of Marischal College, Aberdeen
  Decoration	2 April 1840  [2]
  	Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.)
  Office	High Steward of Chichester  [1]
  Office	From 1841 to 1845  [2]
  	President of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
  Office	1845  [2]
  	President of the Royal Agricultural Society
  Office	From Sept. 1860 to 21 Oct. 1860  [2]
  	Joint Chancellor of Aberdeen University
  Died	21 Oct. 1860	Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Buried	Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England   [2]
  Person ID	I950	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	22 April 2019

  
  

  Father	General Charles (Lennox), 4th Duke of Richmond,   b. 9 Sept. 1764, Scotland ,   d. 28 Aug. 1819, near Richmond, Canada  (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Lady Charlotte Gordon,   b. 20 Sept. 1768, Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland ,   d. 5 May 1842, Upper Portland Street, London, England  (Age 73 years)
  Married	9 Sept. 1789	Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland   [3]
  Family ID	F518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Caroline Paget,   b. 6 June 1796,   d. 12 March 1874, Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England  (Age 77 years)
  Married	10 April 1817	St. James's, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Children	+ 1. 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)   2. Lord FitzRoy George Charles Gordon-Lennox,   b. 11 June 1820,   d. 1841  (Age 20 years)   3. Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox,   b. 2 Nov. 1821,   d. 29 Aug. 1886  (Age 64 years) + 4. Captain Lord Alexander Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox,   b. 14 June 1825,   d. 22 Jan. 1892  (Age 66 years)   5. Lord George Charles Gordon-Lennox,   b. 22 Oct. 1829,   d. 27 Feb. 1877  (Age 47 years)   6. Lady Caroline Amelia Gordon-Lennox,   d. 30 April 1890   7. Lady Augusta Katherine Gordon-Lennox,   d. 3 April 1904 + 8. Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox,   b. 13 April 1838, London, England ,   d. 5 Oct. 1910, Laleham House, Staines, London, England  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	22 April 2019
  Family ID	F521	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

  He took by Royal licence, 9 August 1836, the additional surname of Gordon on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle, the 5th and last Duke of Gordon [S.]. [2] As a peer he was anti-Catholic and seceded from the Tory party when Peel gave way to the Catholic claims. Being a member of the Grey cabinet he supported the Reform Bill, but he was alone in dissenting from their decision, 8 May 1832, to resign if the King would not give them powers to make peers at once (Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, page 339). He resigned in May 1834, joined Peel as one of the new Conservative party and became leader of the Protectionists. Lord Beauvale wrote to Lady Palmerston from Toplitz, 23 June 1841: "Sir John Courcy says the Queen will send en cas de besoin for the Duke of Richmond" (Lady Airlie, Lady Palmerston and her Times, volume ii, page 63). In January 1842 he declined Peel's offer to appoint him Lord Privy Seal (Parker, Sir Robert Peel, volume ii, page 519). [2]

  
  

• 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 X, page 844. [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 845. [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 843.