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Henry Charles George (Henry) Gordon-Lennox

1821–86

Politician and speculator. Third son of the fifth duke of Richmond. BA, Oxford (Christ Church), 1843. MP for Chichester, 1846–85. Lord of the Treasury, 1852 and 1858–9; secretary to the Admiralty, 1866–8; first commissioner of public works, 1874–6.

Source

ODNB s.v. Lennox, Charles Gordon-, fifth duke of Richmond and fifth duke of Lennox.

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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