Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th duke of Richmond, 6th duke of Lennox, and 1st duke of Gordon
1818–1903
Politician and landowner. Son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, fifth duke of Richmond and fifth duke of Lennox. BA, Oxford, 1839. Conservative MP for West Sussex, 1841–60. President of the Board of Trade, 1867. Leader of the House of Lords, 1869–76; lord president of the Council, 1874–80. Interested in farming; president of the Agricultural Society, 1868 and 1883. Created first duke of Gordon, 1876.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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