Hilda Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

Hilda Madeline Brassey Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond, DBE, JP (16 June 1872 – 29 December 1971) was the daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey (b. 14 July 1840 - d. 13 May 1891) and Anna Harriet Stevenson (died 15 July 1898).

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.

Family

On on 8 June 1893 Hilda Madeline Brassey married Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, the 8th Duke of Richmond (born 30 December 1870 — died 7 May 1935); they had the following children:

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

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