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General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox, 4th Duke of Aubigny, KG, PC (9 December 1764 – 28 August 1819) was a British peer, soldier, politician and Governor-General of British North America.
In 1790 Lennox had been elected to his father’s seat of Sussex in the House of Commons, and he was re-elected in 1796, 1802, and 1806. He succeeded to the dukedom of Richmond and Lennox on the death of his uncle on 29 Dec. 1806. The following April he was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland.
The fourth creation of the dukedom of Richmond was in August 1675, when Charles II granted the title to Charles Lennox, his illegitimate son by Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth. Charles Lennox was further created Duke of Lennox a month later.
Lennox, Charles (1764–1819), 4th duke of Richmond and 4th duke of Lennox , lord lieutenant of Ireland, was born 9 September 1764, the eldest son of Lord George Henry Lennox, a general, and his wife, Lady Louisa Lennox Kerr, daughter of the 4th marquess of Lothian; he was apparently born in a barn in Scotland when his mother was on a fishing trip.
14 de ene. de 2008 · Charles Lennox Richmond and Lennox, 4th Duke of, soldier, administrator, governor-in-chief of British N America 1818-19 (b in Eng 9 Sept 1764; d near Richmond, UC 28 Aug 1819). After an undistinguished career in the British army, he sat as an MP in the British House of Commons 1790-1806 until he inherited the dukedom of Richmond.
He became the 4th Duke of Richmond on 29 December 1806, after the death of his uncle, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond. From April 1807 until 1813 he became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1818 he was appointed Governor General of British North America. The next year, while on a tour of Upper and Lower Canada, he was bitten by a fox.
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. After an illustrious military and administrative career which included seven years as Lord-Lieutenant in Ireland (1807-13), Richmond was appointed Governor-General of British North America in 1818. He died after only a year in the post.
