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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.
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 current dukedom of Richmond was created in 1675 for Charles Lennox, the illegitimate son of Charles II of England and one of his mistresses, the Breton noblewoman Louise de Penancoët de Kérouaille; Charles Lennox was also made Duke of Lennox a month later.
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.
Charles Lennox, a natural son of King Charles II, was created Duke of Richmond in 1675 and granted lands in Scotland and Yorkshire (later sold). Through his grandmother, the Duchess of...
NumberDescriptionHeld ByReference1West Sussex Record Office194032West Sussex Record OfficeGoodwood MSS3West Sussex Record OfficeAcc 101104West Sussex Record OfficeAcc 16183Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, 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 King Charles II.
The most High & Noble Prince Charles Lenox Duke of Richmond | Museum number 1874,0808.1181 |
