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Victor Charles Hugh Gordon-Lennox

Male 1897 - 1968  (70 years)


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  1. 1.  Victor Charles Hugh Gordon-Lennox was born on 10 Sept. 1897 (son of Rt. Hon. Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox and Alice Elizabeth Ogilvie-Grant); died on 25 Jan. 1968.

    Other Events:

    • Education: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Trinity College, University of Cambridge
    • Military Service: Captain, Grenadier Guards
    • Occupation: From 1922 to 1929; Journalist, Daily Mail
    • Occupation: From 1923 to 1929; Political Correspondent, Daily Mail
    • Occupation: 1930; Journalist, Daily Telegraph
    • Occupation: 1935; Diplomatic Correspondent, Daily Telegraph

    Notes:

    Military Service:
    Served during the First World War (wounded).

    Victor married Anne Dorothy Browne on 12 July 1923, and was divorced in 1928. Anne (daughter of Edward Cazalet Browne) died on 16 March 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Victor married Diana Elizabeth Constance Kingsmill on 28 Dec. 1932, and was divorced in 1940. Diana (daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill) died in 1982. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. (Henry) George Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 24 Sept. 1934.

    Victor married Norah Julia Wensley Schofield on 19 May 1958. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Rt. Hon. Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 29 July 1865 (son of Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 6th Duke of Richmond and Frances Harriet Greville); died on 21 Oct. 1922.

    Other Events:

    • Office: From 1888 to 1894; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Chichester
    • Office: From 1891 to 1892; Treasurer of the Household

    Walter married Alice Elizabeth Ogilvie-Grant on 6 July 1889. Alice (daughter of Hon. George Henry Ogilvie-Grant, of Grant) died on 7 March 1946. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Alice Elizabeth Ogilvie-Grant (daughter of Hon. George Henry Ogilvie-Grant, of Grant); died on 7 March 1946.
    Children:
    1. 1. Victor Charles Hugh Gordon-Lennox was born on 10 Sept. 1897; died on 25 Jan. 1968.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 6th Duke of RichmondCharles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 6th Duke of Richmond was born on 27 Feb. 1818 in Richmond House, Whitehall Gardens, London, England; was christened on 26 March 1818 in St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, England (son of Charles (Gordon-Lennox), 5th Duke of Richmond and Lady Caroline Paget); died on 27 Sept. 1903 in Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland; was buried on 3 Oct. 1903 in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England.

    Other Events:

    • Education: 1830, Westminster, Middlesex, England; Westminster School
    • Education: From 20 Oct. 1836 to 1839, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; Christ Church, University of Oxford
    • Office: From 1841 to 1860; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for West Sussex
    • Office: From 1842 to 1854; Aide-de-Camp (A.D.C.)
    • Office: From March 1859 to June 1859; President of the Poor Law Board
    • Office: 3 March 1859; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
    • Hereditary Title: From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903; 6th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903; 6th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903; 6th Duke of Richmond [E., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903; 6th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903; 6th Earl of March [E., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 21 Oct. 1860 to 27 Sept. 1903; 6th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
    • Census: 7 April 1861, Molecomb House, Singleton, Sussex, England
    • Office: From 10 April 1861 to 27 Sept. 1903; Chancellor of Aberdeen University
    • Office: From 1867 to 1868; President of the Board of Trade
    • Office: From 1867 to 1868; President of the Royal Agricultural Society
    • Decoration: 30 Jan. 1867; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
    • Office: From 1870 to 27 Sept. 1903; Elder Brother of the Trinity House
    • Office: From 1870 to 1876; Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
    • Office: From 1874 to 1880; Lord President of the Council
    • Hereditary Title: From 13 Jan. 1876 to 27 Sept. 1903; 1st Duke of Gordon [U.K., 1876]
    • Hereditary Title: From 13 Jan. 1876 to 27 Sept. 1903; 1st Earl of Kinrara [U.K., 1876]
    • Office: From 1879 to 27 Sept. 1903; Lord Lieutenant of Banff
    • Occupation: 1879; Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture
    • Office: From 1881 to 1885; President of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
    • Office: From 1882 to 1883; President of the Royal Agricultural Society
    • Office: 1885; An Ecclesiastical Commissioner
    • Office: From 1885 to 1886; Secretary for Scotland
    • Office: From June 1885 to Aug. 1885; President of the Board of Trade

    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.

    Education:
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

    Office:
    Conservative

    Office:
    To the Duke of Wellington, 1842–52, and to Viscount Hardinge, the Duke's successor as Commander-in-Chief, 1852–54.

    Hereditary Title:
    "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.

    Decoration:
    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.

    Charles married Frances Harriet Greville on 28 Nov. 1843 in St. George's, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England. Frances (daughter of Algernon Frederick Greville and Charlotte Maria Cox) was born on 8 March 1824 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 8 March 1887 in Goodwood, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Frances Harriet Greville was born on 8 March 1824 in London, Middlesex, England (daughter of Algernon Frederick Greville and Charlotte Maria Cox); died on 8 March 1887 in Goodwood, Sussex, England.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 7 April 1861, Molecomb House, Singleton, Sussex, England

    Children:
    1. Lady Caroline Elizabeth Gordon-Lennox was born on 12 Oct. 1844 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England; died on 22 Nov. 1934.
    2. Colonel Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 7th Duke of Richmond was born on 27 Dec. 1845 in Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England; died on 18 Jan. 1928 in Goodwood, Sussex, England; was buried on 21 Jan. 1928 in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England.
    3. Colonel Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 19 Sept. 1847 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England; died on 3 Oct. 1921.
    4. Captain Lord Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 30 July 1849 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England; died on 1 Jan. 1886.
    5. Lady Florence Augusta Gordon-Lennox was born circa 1852 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England; died on 21 July 1895 in 49, Belgrave Square, Belgravia, Middlesex, England; was buried on 25 July 1895 in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England.
    6. 2. Rt. Hon. Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 29 July 1865; died on 21 Oct. 1922.

  3. 6.  Hon. George Henry Ogilvie-Grant, of Grant
    Children:
    1. 3. Alice Elizabeth Ogilvie-Grant died on 7 March 1946.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Charles (Gordon-Lennox), 5th Duke of RichmondCharles (Gordon-Lennox), 5th Duke of Richmond was born on 3 Aug. 1791 in Richmond House, Whitehall Gardens, London, England (son of General Charles (Lennox), 4th Duke of Richmond and Lady Charlotte Gordon); died on 21 Oct. 1860 in Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England; was buried in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England.

    Other Events:

    • Office: High Steward of Chichester
    • Education: to 1809, Westminster, Middlesex, England; Westminster School
    • Education: From 28 Oct. 1809 to 1813, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland; Trinity College, Dublin
    • Office: From 1812 to 1819; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Chichester
    • Office: From 1819 to 1860; Colonel of the Sussex Militia
    • Hereditary Title: From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860; 5th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860; 5th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860; 5th Duke of Richmond [E., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860; 5th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860; 5th Earl of March [E., 1675]
    • Hereditary Title: From 28 Aug. 1819 to 21 Oct. 1860; 5th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
    • Decoration: 12 May 1829; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
    • Office: From Nov. 1830 to May 1834; Postmaster-General
    • Office: 22 Nov. 1830; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
    • Office: 1831; Vice-Admiral of Sussex
    • Office: 1832; Militia A.D.C. to William IV
    • Office: From 1835 to 1860; Lord Lieutenant of Sussex
    • Office: From 1836 to 1860; Chancellor of Marischal College, Aberdeen
    • Decoration: 2 April 1840; Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.)
    • Office: From 1841 to 1845; President of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
    • Office: 1845; President of the Royal Agricultural Society
    • Office: From Sept. 1860 to 21 Oct. 1860; Joint Chancellor of Aberdeen University

    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.].

    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).

    Education:
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

    Office:
    Tory

    Hereditary Title:
    "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.

    Charles married Lady Caroline Paget on 10 April 1817 in St. James's, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Caroline (daughter of Henry William (Paget), 1st Marquess of Anglesey and Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers) was born on 6 June 1796; died on 12 March 1874 in Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England; was buried in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Lady Caroline Paget was born on 6 June 1796 (daughter of Henry William (Paget), 1st Marquess of Anglesey and Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers); died on 12 March 1874 in Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, England; was buried in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England.
    Children:
    1. 4. Charles Henry (Gordon-Lennox), 6th Duke of Richmond was born on 27 Feb. 1818 in Richmond House, Whitehall Gardens, London, England; was christened on 26 March 1818 in St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, England; died on 27 Sept. 1903 in Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland; was buried on 3 Oct. 1903 in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England.
    2. Lord FitzRoy George Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 11 June 1820; died in 1841.
    3. Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox was born on 2 Nov. 1821; died on 29 Aug. 1886.
    4. Captain Lord Alexander Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 14 June 1825; died on 22 Jan. 1892.
    5. Lord George Charles Gordon-Lennox was born on 22 Oct. 1829; died on 27 Feb. 1877.
    6. Lady Caroline Amelia Gordon-Lennox died on 30 April 1890.
    7. Lady Augusta Katherine Gordon-Lennox died on 3 April 1904.
    8. Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox was born on 13 April 1838 in London, England; died on 5 Oct. 1910 in Laleham House, Staines, London, England.

  3. 10.  Algernon Frederick Greville was born on 29 Jan. 1798 (son of Captain Charles Greville and Lady Charlotte Bentinck); died on 15 Dec. 1864 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England.

    Other Events:

    • Office: Bath King of Arms
    • Residence: 1864, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England
    • Probate: 20 Jan. 1865, Principal Registry, London, Middlesex, England; Granted to Arthur Charles Greville of Hillingdon Esquire the Son and Georgina Maria Greville of Hillingdon Spinster the Daughter the Executors (Effects under £40,000, Resworn under £60,000)

    Algernon married Charlotte Maria Cox on 7 April 1823. Charlotte (daughter of Richard Henry Cox) died on 3 April 1841. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Charlotte Maria Cox (daughter of Richard Henry Cox); died on 3 April 1841.
    Children:
    1. 5. Frances Harriet Greville was born on 8 March 1824 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 8 March 1887 in Goodwood, Sussex, England.
    2. Georgiana Maria Greville died on 14 Jan. 1872 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England.
    3. Lt.-Col. Arthur Charles Greville was born on 18 May 1827; died on 27 May 1901.
    4. Cavendish Hubert Greville died on 5 Nov. 1854.
    5. Augusta Mary Greville died on 28 Dec. 1921.



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