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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.
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.
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.
When Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond was born on 18 May 1701, in Chichester, Sussex, England, his father, Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond, was 28 and his mother, Anne Brudenell, Duchess of Richmond, was 21. He married Sarah Cadogan Duchess of Richmond and Cadogan on 4 December 1719, in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.
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- Sarah Cadogan Duchess of Richmond And Cadogan
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, 1st Duke of Richmond. His Grace. The Duke of Richmond and Lennox. KG. Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Tenure. 9 August 1675 – 27 May 1723. Successor. Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.
