Cosmo married Marie Susan Etherington in 1898. Marie (daughter of Edward Etherington) died on 14 Oct. 1942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military Service: Captain, Royal Horse Guards (Blues)
• Office: From 1849 to 1859; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Shoreham

Alexander married Emily Frances Towneley on 6 Aug. 1863. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Other Events:

• Office: From 1790 to 1806; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Chichester
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Dec. 1806 to 28 Aug. 1819; 4th Baron of Settrington, co. York [E., 1675]
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Dec. 1806 to 28 Aug. 1819; 4th Duke of Lennox [S., 1675]
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Dec. 1806 to 28 Aug. 1819; 4th Duke of Richmond [E., 1675]
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Dec. 1806 to 28 Aug. 1819; 4th Earl of Darnley [S., 1675]
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Dec. 1806 to 28 Aug. 1819; 4th Earl of March [E., 1675]
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Dec. 1806 to 28 Aug. 1819; 4th Lord of Torboultoun [S., 1675]
• Office: 1807; High Steward of Chichester
• Office: From 1807 to 1813; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• Office: 1 April 1807; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Decoration: 31 March 1812; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: From 1813 to 1814; Governor of Hull
• Office: From 1814 to 1819; Governor of Plymouth
• Office: From 1816 to 1819; Lord Lieutenant of Sussex
• Office: From 1818 to 1819; Governor-General of Canada
• Probate: 1820

Notes:

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 Charlotte Gordon on 9 Sept. 1789 in Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland. Charlotte (daughter of Alexander (Gordon), 4th Duke of Gordon and Jane Maxwell) was born on 20 Sept. 1768 in Gordon Castle, Banffshire, Scotland; died on 5 May 1842 in Upper Portland Street, London, England; was buried on 13 May 1842 in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Probate: June 1842

Henry married Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]