Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 6th Duke of Richmond

1818 - 1903  (85 years)

• Name	Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox)  [1]
  Suffix	6th Duke of Richmond
  Born	27 Feb. 1818	Richmond House, Whitehall Gardens, London, England   [1]
  Christened	26 March 1818	St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	1830	Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  	Westminster School
  Education	From 20 Oct. 1836 to 1839	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  	Christ Church, University of Oxford
  	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
  Office	From 1841 to 1860  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for West Sussex
  	Conservative
  Office	From 1842 to 1854  [1]
  	Aide-de-Camp (A.D.C.)
  	To the Duke of Wellington, 1842–52, and to Viscount Hardinge, the Duke's successor as Commander-in-Chief, 1852–54.
  Office	From March 1859 to June 1859  [1]
  	President of the Poor Law Board
  Office	3 March 1859  [1]
  	Privy Councillor (P.C.)
  Hereditary Title	From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	6th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	6th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	6th 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 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	6th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	6th Earl of March [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	6th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
  Census	7 April 1861	Molecomb House, Singleton, Sussex, England   [2]
  Office	From 10 April 1861 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	Chancellor of Aberdeen University
  Office	From 1867 to 1868  [1]
  	President of the Board of Trade
  Office	From 1867 to 1868  [1]
  	President of the Royal Agricultural Society
  Decoration	30 Jan. 1867  [1]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  	He was the 6th Duke of the 1675 creation who received the Garter. See the Complete Peerage, volume ii, Appendix B, and especially page 586, where, under Stuart and Lennox, the number "seven" includes his son, the 7th Duke.
  Office	From 1870 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	Elder Brother of the Trinity House
  Office	From 1870 to 1876  [1]
  	Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
  Office	From 1874 to 1880  [1]
  	Lord President of the Council
  Hereditary Title	From 13 Jan. 1876 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	1st Duke of Gordon [U.K., 1876]
  Hereditary Title	From 13 Jan. 1876 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	1st Earl of Kinrara [U.K., 1876]
  Office	From 1879 to 27 Sept. 1903  [1]
  	Lord Lieutenant of Banff
  Occupation	1879  [1]
  	Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture
  Office	From 1881 to 1885  [1]
  	President of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
  Office	From 1882 to 1883  [1]
  	President of the Royal Agricultural Society
  Office	1885  [1]
  	An Ecclesiastical Commissioner
  Office	From 1885 to 1886  [1]
  	Secretary for Scotland
  Office	From June 1885 to Aug. 1885  [1]
  	President of the Board of Trade
  Died	27 Sept. 1903	Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland   [1]
  Buried	3 Oct. 1903	Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I955	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	22 April 2019

  
  

  Father	Charles (Gordon-Lennox), 5th Duke of Richmond,   b. 3 Aug. 1791, Richmond House, Whitehall Gardens, London, England ,   d. 21 Oct. 1860, Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	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   [3]
  Family ID	F521	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	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   [1]
  Children	1. Lady Caroline Elizabeth Gordon-Lennox,   b. 12 Oct. 1844, Marylebone, Middlesex, England ,   d. 22 Nov. 1934  (Age 90 years) + 2. 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  (Age 82 years) + 3. Colonel Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox,   b. 19 Sept. 1847, Marylebone, Middlesex, England ,   d. 3 Oct. 1921  (Age 74 years)   4. Captain Lord Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox,   b. 30 July 1849, Chelsea, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1 Jan. 1886  (Age 36 years)   5. Lady Florence Augusta Gordon-Lennox,   b. circa 1852, Chelsea, Middlesex, England ,   d. 21 July 1895, 49, Belgrave Square, Belgravia, Middlesex, England  (Age ~ 43 years) + 6. Rt. Hon. Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox,   b. 29 July 1865,   d. 21 Oct. 1922  (Age 57 years)
  Last Modified	22 April 2019
  Family ID	F524	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

  In thanking him for the gift of a Garter badge after the Berlin Conference, Lord Beaconsfield wrote, 23 July 1878: "We have known each other, now, for more than thirty years, and, often, in trying times; and under any circumstances, it would be agreeable to remember, that there has never been a cloud between us. But it is only of recent years, that I have had an opportunity of becoming duly acquainted with your great and good qualities; . . ." (Monypenny and Buckle, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, volume vi, pages 359–60). For an obituary notice by Sir Ernest Clarke, in which stress is laid on his services to agriculture, see the Journal of the R. Agric. Soc., volume lxiv (1903), pages 1–15. A cartoon portrait of him appeared in Vanity Fair, 1870. [4]

  
  

• 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 846. [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 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 847.