CHARLES LENNOX, 2ND DUKE OF RICHMOND

'Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and 2nd Duke of Lennox', KG, KCB, PC, FRS (born 18 May 1701 at Goodwood, Sussex; died 8 August 1750 at Godalming) was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond. He served as Lord of the Bedchamber to George II from 1727, and in 1735 he was appointed Master of the Horse.
He was an early Grand Master Mason from 1724, shortly after the formation of the Premier Grand Lodge of England; it appears that his father had been a master mason in Chichester in 1696. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 February 1724.^[1]
The 2nd Duke of Richmond was perhaps early cricket’s greatest patron. He is forever associated with Sussex; he was born at Goodwood, lived and died at Godalming and is buried in Chichester Cathedral. He captained his own XI and his players included some of the earliest known professionals such as his own groom Thomas Waymark, who was the game's foremost all-rounder in the first half of the 18th century.
The Duke was one of the founding Governors of London's Foundling Hospital, which received its Royal Charter from George II in 1739. The Foundling Hospital was a charity dedicated to saving London's abandoned children. Both the Duke and the Duchess took great interest in the project. The Duke attended committee meetings and both took part in the baptism and naming of the first children accepted by the Hospital in March 1741.
He was Lieutenant-General in the British troops alongside Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, against Bonnie Prince Charlie. This may have been the inspiration behind the Culloden Tower and Georgian architecture in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
He married Lady Sarah Cadogan (1706–1751), daughter of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, on 4 December 1719 at The Hague, Netherlands. They had twelve children, several of whom died in infancy:

★ Lady Georgiana Carolina Lennox (1723–1774), married Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland and had issue.

★ boy who died in infancy (1724)

★ Louisa, (1725–c.1728)

★ Charles Lennox (9 September 1730–November 1730)

★ Lady Emilia Mary Lennox (1731–1814), married James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster and had issue.

★ Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1733–29 December 1806)

★ General Lord George Henry Lennox (1738-1805)

★ Lady Louisa Augusta Lennox (1743–1821)

★ Lady Sarah Lennox (1745–1826), married Thomas Bunbury, 6th Bt and had issue.

★ Lady Cecily Lennox (20 March 1750–1769)

★ For more information about the Lennox sisters, click here
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, is recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland as having had a natural son by Sophia, heiress of family of Howkins of Brownsover in Warwickshire, by the name of William (born 1747).

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Further reading

★ R.H. Nichols and F A. Wray, ''The History of the Foundling Hospital'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1935).

★ Tillyard, Stella. ''Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832''. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994.

External links

★ Genealogics - Leo van de Pas

★ From Lads to Lord's; The History of Cricket: 1300 – 1787

References

★ ''Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket'' by G B Buckley (FL18)

★ ''Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century'' by Timothy J McCann (TJM)

★ ''The Dawn of Cricket'' by H T Waghorn (WDC)

★ ''At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 – 1751'' by F S Ashley-Cooper in ''Cricket'' Magazine (1900) (ASW)

★ ''Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773'' by H T Waghorn (WCS)

Notes

1. Lists of Royal Society Fellows