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Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, KG, KB, PC, FRS (18 May 1701 – 8 August 1750) of Goodwood House near Chichester in Sussex, was a British nobleman and politician. He was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox, the youngest of the seven illegitimate sons of ...
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701-1750), became the fourth noble Grand Master of Grand Lodge in 1724. Master of London’s most influential Masonic lodge, the Horn Tavern in New Palace Yard, Westminster (pictured below), and a grandson of Charles II, Richmond set a pro-Hanoverian seal on eighteenth-century Freemasonry.
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.
Biography. Politician and sportsman; gained the rank of Lieutenant-General by 1745; grandson of Charles II by Louise de Kéroualle (qq.v.). Lennox's cultural interests were diverse. At Goodwood, his family estate in Sussex, he built a shell house and established a menagerie. He was one of the earliest patrons of Canaletto.
Charles Lennox, 2 nd Duke of Richmond was the only son of Charles Lennox, 1 st Duke of Richmond (1672-1723) and his wife, Anne (d.1722), widow of Henry, 2 nd Baron Belasyse of Worlaby and daughter of Francis, Lord Brudenell.
He was made lieutenant-general in 1805 and general on 1 June 1814. 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.
26 de abr. de 2022 · Death: August 08, 1750 (49) Godalming, Surrey, England (United Kingdom) Place of Burial: Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, West Sussex, England. Immediate Family: Son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Anne Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Husband of Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond.
