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GORDON-LENNOX, LORD HENRY CHARLES GEORGE, third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 2 Nov 1821; adm. 1 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1840; BA 1843; MA 1847; precis writer, Foreign Office Feb 1845 – Feb 1846; MP (Cons) Chichester Feb 1846 – 85; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Mar – Dec 1852, Mar 1858 – Mar 1859; Secretary to the Admiralty Jul 1866 – Dec 1868; First Commissioner of Works Feb 1874 – Jul 1876, when he was compelled to resign owing to involvement in a financial scandal; Privy Councillor 7 Jul 1874; m. 25 Jan 1883 Amelia Susannah, widow of Richard Archibald Brooman, Neville House, Twickenham, Middlesex, and subsequently of John White, Arddarroch, Dumbartonshire, chemical manufacturer, and dau. of --- Smith; d. 28 Aug 1886. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.