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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.
In 1675, King Charles II created his illegitimate son Charles Lennox Duke of Richmond (created on 9 August 1675) and Duke of Lennox (created on 9 September 1675), and the two Dukedoms have since been held concurrently by Lennox's descendants.
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...
Charles was close to his grandmother, the Duchess of Portsmouth, and visited her every year in Aubigny. Because the 1st Duke of Richmond predeceased Portsmouth, it was actually Charles, 2nd Duke of Richmond, who inherited the duchy in France. Downward spiral
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, 2nd Duke of Richmond convened his first English lodge in France in 1734, the year that he succeeded as Duc d’Aubigny. Lodge meetings were held at Louise de Kérouaille (pictured), his grandmother’s house on the Rue des Saints-Pères in Paris and in a private room at the Hôtel Bussy.
