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词条 Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
释义

  1. Background and education

  2. Political career

  3. Family

  4. Ancestry

  5. Bibliography

     References 

  6. External links

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| honorific-prefix = His Grace
| name = The Duke of Richmond
| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=|KG|PC}}
| image = Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| order1 = President of the Board of Trade
| term_start1 = 8 March 1867
| term_end1 = 1 December 1868
| monarch1 = Victoria
| primeminister1 = The Earl of Derby
Benjamin Disraeli
| predecessor1 = Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt
| successor1 = John Bright
| term_start2 = 24 June 1885
| term_end2 = 19 August 1885
| monarch2 = Victoria
| primeminister2 = The Marquess of Salisbury
| predecessor2 = Joseph Chamberlain
| successor2 = Hon. Edward Stanhope
| order3 = Lord President of the Council
| term_start3 = 21 February 1874
| term_end3 = 28 April 1880
| monarch3 = Victoria
| primeminister3 = Benjamin Disraeli
| predecessor3 = The Lord Aberdare
| successor3 = The Earl Spencer
| birth_date = {{Birth-date|27 February 1818}}
| birth_place = Richmond House, London
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1903|09|27|1818|02|27}}
| death_place = Gordon Castle, Morayshire
| nationality = British
| party = Conservative
| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
| spouse = Frances Harriett Greville
| children = 6, including Charles and Walter
| parents = Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
Lady Caroline Paget
}}

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon, {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep=,|KG|PC}} (27 February 1818{{snd}}27 September 1903), styled Lord Settrington until 1819 and Earl of March between 1819 and 1860, was a British Conservative politician.

Background and education

Born at Richmond House, London, he was the son of Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox and Lady Caroline, daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, where he had a short career as a cricketer. He served in the Royal Horse Guards and was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington.

Political career

March entered politics as member for Sussex West in 1841. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1859. In 1860, he succeeded his father as Duke of Richmond and entered the House of Lords. He chaired the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, which reported in 1866, and the Royal Commission on Water Supply in 1869, which concluded that there was a need for some sort of overall planning of water supplies for domestic use.{{sfn |Porter |1978 |p=24}}

He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1867, and filled various positions in government in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby, Disraeli and the marquess of Salisbury.[1] In 1876 he was rewarded for his public service by being created Duke of Gordon and Earl of Kinrara in the peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] He was also Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen from 1861 until his death at Gordon Castle in 1903.

Family

Richmond married Frances Harriett Greville, daughter of Algernon Greville, on 28 November 1843. They had six children:

  • Lady Caroline Gordon-Lennox (12 October 1844{{snd}}2 November 1934), died unmarried
  • Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond (1845–1928)
  • Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox (19 September 1847{{snd}}3 October 1921), married Blanche Maynard and had issue one daughter, Ivy Gordon-Lennox, (16 June 1887{{snd}}3 March 1982), who m. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland.
  • Captain Lord Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox (30 July 1849{{snd}}1 January 1886), died unmarried
  • Lady Florence Gordon-Lennox (21 June 1851{{snd}}21 July 1895), died unmarried
  • Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox (29 July 1865{{snd}}21 October 1922), married Alice Ogilvie-Grant and had issue

Ancestry

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|1= 1. Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
|2= 2. Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
|3= 3. Lady Caroline Paget
|4= 4. Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
|5= 5. Lady Charlotte Gordon
|6= 6. Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
|7= 7. Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers
|8= 8. Lord George Lennox
|9= 9. Lady Louisa Kerr
|10= 10. Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
|11= 11. Jane Maxwell
|12= 12. Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
|13= 13. Jane Champagné
|14= 14. George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey
|15= 15. Frances Twysden
|16= 16. Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
|17= 17. Lady Sarah Cadogan
|18= 18. William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian
|19= 19. Lady Caroline Darcy
|20= 20. Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon
|21= 21. Lady Catherine Gordon
|22= 22. Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet, of Monreith
|23= 23. Magdalene Blair
|24= 24. Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of Plas Newydd and Mount Bagenall
|25= 25. Caroline Paget
|26= 26. Very Rev. Arthur Champagné
|27= 27. Marianne Hamon
|28= 28. William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey
|29= 29. Lady Anne Egerton
|30= 30. Rt. Rev. Philip Twysden, Bishop of Raphoe
|31= 31. Frances Carter
}}

Bibliography

{{Refbegin}}
  • {{Cite book

|last=Porter |first=Elizabeth
|title=Water Management in England and Wales
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|year=1978
|isbn=978-0-521-21865-8
|ref=harv}}
  • {{cite book

|first=David |last=Torrance
|title=The Scottish Secretaries
|publisher=Birlinn
|year=2006
|isbn=978-1-84158-476-8
|ref=none}}{{Refend}}

References

1. ^{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Richmond, Earls and Dukes of|volume=23|page=307|first=Ronald John|last=McNeill|authorlink=Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun}}
2. ^{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Lennox|volume=16|page=420}}

External links

  • {{Hansard-contribs | earl-of-march-1 | the Duke of Richmond }}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20041228003423/http://rgu-sim.rgu.ac.uk/history/gordonchapel/6th_duke.htm Gordon Chapel]
  • [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37263/37263.html CricketArchive: Earl of March]
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