Colonel Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 8th Duke of Richmond

1870 - 1935  (64 years)

• Name	Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox)  [1]
  Title	Colonel
  Suffix	8th Duke of Richmond
  Born	30 Dec. 1870  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Cremation	Brighton, Sussex, England   [2]
  Education	From 1884 to 1888	Eton, Buckinghamshire, England   [2]
  	Eton College
  Education	1888	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [2]
  	Christ Church, University of Oxford
  	Matriculated 1888.
  Decoration	From 1895 to 1898	Ireland   [2]
  	A.D.C. to Lord Roberts
  Military Service	From 1896 to 1900  [2]
  	Captain, 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (Militia)
  Decoration	From 1899 to 1901	South Africa   [2]
  	A.D.C. to Lord Roberts
  	South African War. Mentioned in despatches. Received D.S.O.
  Decoration	circa 1901  [2]
  	Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)
  Military Service	1901  [2]
  	Captain, Irish Guards
  Decoration	1905  [2]
  	Member of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.)
  Hereditary Title	From 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	3rd Duke of Gordon [U.K., 1876]
  Hereditary Title	From 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	3rd 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 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	8th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	8th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	8th Duke of Richmond [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	8th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	8th Earl of March [E., 1675]
  Hereditary Title	From 18 Jan. 1928 to 7 May 1935  [1]
  	8th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
  Military Service	Colonel, Sussex Yeomanry  [2]
  Office	Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Moray  [2]
  Probate	13 Feb. 1935  [3]
  	Role: Executor
  Died	7 May 1935	Goodwood, Sussex, England   [2]
  Person ID	I969	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	20 April 2019

  
  

  Father	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)
  Mother	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]
  Family ID	F527	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hilda Madeleine Brassey
  Married	8 June 1893	St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Children	1. Lady Amy Gwendoline Gordon-Lennox,   b. 5 May 1894,   d. 27 April 1975  (Age 80 years)   2. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox,   b. 15 Aug. 1895,   d. 5 Sept. 1895  (Age 0 years) + 3. Lady Doris Hilda Gordon-Lennox,   b. 6 Sept. 1896   4. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, styled Lord Settrington,   b. 26 Jan. 1899,   d. 24 Aug. 1919, Russia  (Age 20 years) + 5. Frederick Charles (Gordon-Lennox), 9th Duke of Richmond,   b. 5 Feb. 1904,   d. 2 Nov. 1989  (Age 85 years)
  Last Modified	20 April 2019
  Family ID	F533	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).

  
  

• 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. [S4] National Probate Calendar, Year 1935, volume L–P, page 80. "GORDON-LENNOX the right honourable lady Caroline Elizabeth of 30 Wilton-crescent Westminster Middlesex spinster died 22 November 1934 Probate London 13 February to the most noble Charles Henry duke of Richmond Lennox and Gordon M.V.O. D.S.O. lady Muriel Beatrice Derek-Jones (wife of Lewis Derek-Jones) and lady Violet Mary Brassey (wife of sir Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey baronet). Effects £9802 0s. 10d. Resworn £9858 19s. 7d."