The Right Honourable Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox PC |
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"Treasurer of the Household". Gordon-Lennox as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1892. | |
Treasurer of the Household | |
In office 20 November 1891 – 11 August 1892 |
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Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
Preceded by | The Earl of Radnor |
Succeeded by | The Earl of Chesterfield |
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Born | 29 July 1865 |
Died | 21 October 1922 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Alice Ogilvie-Grant (1856–1946) |
Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox PC (29 July 1865 – 21 October 1922) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household from 1891 to 1892 under Lord Salisbury.
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Gordon-Lennox was the youngest of the four sons of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, by his wife Frances Harriett Greville, daughter of Algernon Greville.[1]
Gordon-Lennox entered Parliament in 1888 as Member of Parliament for Chichester, a seat he held until 1894.[2] In 1891 he was sworn of the Privy Council[3] and appointed Treasurer of the Household under Lord Salisbury,[4] a post he retained until the government fell the following year.[5]
Gordon-Lennox married Alice Ogilvie-Grant, daughter of the Honourable George Henry Ogilvie-Grant and granddaughter of Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield, on 6 July 1889. They had at least one child, Victor Charles Hugh Gordon-Lennox (1897–1967). Gordon-Lennox died in October 1922, aged 57. Lady Walter Gordon-Lennox died in March 1946, aged 90.[1]
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Earl of March |
Member of Parliament for Chichester 1888 – 1894 |
Succeeded by Lord Edmund Talbot |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by The Earl of Radnor |
Treasurer of the Household 1891–1892 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Chesterfield |