Lord Henry Lennox

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Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox (2 November 1821 – 29 August 1886) was an English Conservative politician and close friend of Benjamin Disraeli.

Lennox was the third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond. He entered the House of Commons in 1846 as a Member of Parliament for Chichester, in Sussex. He represented this constituency until 1885, when he was defeated in Partick. Lennox held office in every Conservative government between 1852 and 1880. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury in the first two short-lived governments of the Earl of Derby before becoming First Secretary of the Admiralty in Derby's last government (1866–1868). He served as First Commissioner of Works in Disraeli's second government from 1874 until 1876.

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• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Political offices
Preceded by Sir William Gibson-Craig Henry Rich Richard Bellew	Junior Lord of the Treasury 1852	Succeeded by Lord Alfred Hervey Lord Elcho John Sadleir
Preceded by The Viscount Monck Viscount Duncan Henry Brand	Junior Lord of the Treasury 1858–1859	Succeeded by Peter Blackburn
Preceded by Thomas Baring	First Secretary of the Admiralty 1866–1868	Succeeded by William Edward Baxter
Preceded by William Patrick Adam	First Commissioner of Works 1874–1876	Succeeded by Gerard Noel
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Abel Smith Lord Arthur Lennox	Member of Parliament for Chichester with John Abel Smith 1846–1859, 1863–1868 Humphrey William Freeland 1859–1863 (representation reduced to one member 1868) 1846–1885	Succeeded by Earl of March