Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond

Charles Henry Gordon - Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond KG, GCVO, CB (* December 27, 1845 in London, † January 18, 1928 ) was a British politician and nobleman.

Charles was the son of Charles Henry Gordon - Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, and his wife Frances Harriet Greville. He inherited from his father in 1903, after his death the title of the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon.

Charles Henry was educated at Eton and then served in the Grenadier Guards. From 1869 to 1889 he was a member of the House of Commons later first for West Sussex Chichester. Gordon - Lennox fought in the Second Boer War and was Mentioned in Despatches. After that, he was Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire and Morayshire.

Gordon - Lennox, of the courtesy title Earl of March led to the death of his father, married in 1868 his first wife Amy Mary Ricardo ( 1848-1879 ), with whom he had the following children:

• Charles Henry Gordon - Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond ( 1870-1935 )
• Amy Evelyn (1872-1922)
• Violet Mary (1874-1946); ∞ 1894 Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe
• Esmé Charles (1875-1949)
• Bernard Charles (1878-1914) fallen,

His second wife was married in 1882 to Isabel Sophie Craven ( 1863-1887 ), a granddaughter of Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, by whom he had two more daughters:

• Muriel Beta Rice (1884-1968)
• Helen Magdalan (1886-1965); ∞ 1911 Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland