Hilda Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

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Hilda Madeline Brassey Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond, DBE, CBE, JP (b. 16 June 1872 - d. 29 December 1971) was the daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey (b. 14 July 1840 - d. 13 May 1891) and Anna Harriet Stevenson (d. 15 July 1898). Hilda Brassey married Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, son of Sir Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Amy Mary Ricardo, on 8 June 1893.

She held the office of Justice of the Peace (JP) for Sussex and, later, Morayshire. She was invested as a CBE, and, later, as DBE in 1946.

She died in 1971, aged 99.

Contents 1 Family 2 Husband 3 Children 4 References

[edit] Family

[edit] Husband

• Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (b. 30 December 1870 - d. 7 May 1935).

[edit] Children

• 1. Lady Amy Gwendoline Gordon-Lennox (b. 5 May 1894 - d. 1975)
• 2. Hon. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (b. 15 August 1895 - d. 5 September 1895)
• 3. Lady Doris Hilda Gordon-Lennox (b. 6 September 1896 - d. circa 8 February 1980)
• 4. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington (b. 26 January 1899 - d. 24 August 1919)
• 5. Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 9th Duke of Lennox, 9th Duke of Gordon (b. 5 February 1904 - d. 2 November 1989)

[edit] References

• Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 489.