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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 King Charles II.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
