Lord George Gordon-Lennox
(1829-1877)
27 January 1863

Volume 10, page 46, sitting number 12,552.

[The leather chair embossed with the portcullis symbol representing the Houses of Parliament was often used by Silvy in his portraits of Members of Parliament.]

Born on 22 October 1829, Lord George Charles Gordon-Lennox was the fifth son of Charles Gordon-Lennox (1791-1860), 5th Duke of Richmond, and Lady Caroline Paget.

From 1860 to 1874 he was the Member of Parliament for Lymington.

On 3 August 1875 he married 'Mrs Cook, of Roydon Hall, Kent' (née Minnie Augusta Palmer, daughter of William Henry Palmer).  

He died on 27 February 1877, at the age of 47, leaving an estate valued at 'under £500.'

'Lord George Gordon Lennox, youngest brother of the Duke of Richmond, died yesterday at his London residence, Berkeley Square. His lordship had been in a weak state of health for some time, and he ultimately succumbed to exhaustion supervening upon jaundice. By his death the families of the Lord President of the Council, Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar, Earl and Countess of Bessborough, and Lord and Lady Cecelia Bingham are placed in mourning. Lord George Lennox, who was in his 49th [sic] year, was recently married to the widow of a Crimean officer, his country house being Roydon Hall, near Tunbridge Wells. His brother, Lord Henry Lennox, late First Commissioner of Public Works, who has been in the south of France for the benefit of his health, is expected in London to-day' (Manchester Evening News, 28 February 1877). 

According to a short obituary The Scotsman (28 February 1877), 'He was the son of the fifth Duke of Richmond, and was born in 1829. He served for some time in the Royal Horse Guards, and retired with the rank of Lieutenant. He represented Lymington in the Conservative interest from 1860 to 1874 but never took a prominent part in politics. He was a Magistrate for Banffshire, and Deputy-Lieutenant of Sussex.'