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Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

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Her Grace

The Duchess of Richmond
and Lennox
BornCharlotte Gordon
(1768-09-20)20 September 1768
Gordon Castle, Moray, Scotland
Died5 May 1842(1842-05-05) (aged 73)
London, England
Noble familyGordon (by birth)
Lennox (by marriage)
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1789; died 1819)​
Issue14, including Charles, George, William, Sussex and Arthur
FatherAlexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
MotherJane Maxwell

Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (born Lady Charlotte Gordon; 20 September 1768 – 5 May 1842)[1] was a Scottish aristocrat and peeress best known as the hostess of the famed ball held in Brussels on the eve of the Battle of Quatre Bras.

Biography

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Bust of the Duchess, by Joseph Nollekens

Born at Gordon Castle,[2] Lady Charlotte Gordon was the eldest child of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, and his wife, Jane Maxwell.[3] On 9 September 1789, she married Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox and 4th Duke of Aubigny.[1]

In 1814, the family moved to Brussels, where the Duchess gave the ball at which the Duke of Wellington received confirmation that the Army of the North under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte had entered the territory of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands near Charleroi (in what is now the Kingdom of Belgium). The Duchess and her family continued to live in Brussels until 1818, when her husband was appointed Governor General of British North America. The Duchess was widowed in 1819, and in 1836, she inherited the vast Gordon estates on the death of her brother, the 5th Duke of Gordon, who left no legitimate children.[citation needed]

She died in London on 5 May 1842 at the age of 73.[1]

Family

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The Duke and Duchess had seven sons and seven daughters:

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e Lundy 2011 cites Mosley 2003a, p. 3335
  2. ^ Lundy 2011 cites Naylor 1888, p. [page needed].
  3. ^ Lundy 2011 cites Mosley 2003a, p. 3335; Mosley 2003, p. 2012
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lundy 2011 cites Mosley 2003a, p. 3336
  5. ^ "Accidents and offences". Suffolk Chronicle. No. 104. 25 April 1812. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.

References

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  • Lundy, Darryl (25 April 2011), Lady Charlotte Gordon, The Peerage, p. 1179 § 11783, retrieved 1 November 2012 Endnotes:
    • Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, vol. 2 (107th 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), p. 2012
    • Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003a), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, vol. 3 (107th 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), pp. 3335, 3336
    • Naylor, George (1888), The Register's of Thorrington
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