Английская Википедия:Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
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Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon, Шаблон:Postnominals (27 February 1818Шаблон:Snd27 September 1903), styled the Earl of March until 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. Charles was born with the surname Lennox; when his father inherited the Gordon estates from his uncle, the father took the surname Gordon-Lennox for himself and his issue, by royal licence dated 9 August 1836.[1]
He owned 286,000 acres mostly in Banff, Aberdeen and Inverness. His Sussex holdings were 17,000 acres. By 1883, he had an income of £80,000 a year[2]
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.Шаблон:Sfn
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.[3] 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.[4] 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 1844Шаблон:Snd2 November 1934), who acted as chatelaine of Goodwood after her mother's death in 1887. She died unmarried in 1934.[5]
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond (1845–1928)
- Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox (19 September 1847Шаблон:Snd3 October 1921), married Blanche Maynard and had issue one daughter, Ivy Gordon-Lennox, (16 June 1887Шаблон:Snd3 March 1982), who m. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland.
- Captain Lord Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox (30 July 1849Шаблон:Snd1 January 1886), died unmarried
- Lady Florence Gordon-Lennox (21 June 1851Шаблон:Snd21 July 1895), died unmarried
- Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox (29 July 1865Шаблон:Snd21 October 1922), married Alice Ogilvy-Grant and had issue
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