Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara

Charles Gordon-Lennox
Earl of March and Kinrara

Lord March
Sally Clayton;
Janet Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March and Kinrara
Father Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond
Born 8 January 1955
Occupation Goodwood House

Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara (born 8 January 1955) is a British aristocrat, owner of the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex. He is the founder of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival.

He is President of the British Automobile Racing Club, Patron of the TT Riders Association and an honorary member of the British Racing Drivers Club, the Guild of Motoring Writers and the 500 Owners Club.

Photography

Having had a passion for film and photography since the age of 10, March left school at the first possible opportunity and at 17 worked for the film director Stanley Kubrick on the film Barry Lyndon. He went on to forge a world-wide reputation as a still-life photographer, producing campaigns for some of the world’s most famous brands.

In 2012, a major exhibition of Charles March’s recent photographic work, ‘Nature Translated’, was staged at the Bermondsey Project Space in London. The exhibition was shown at the Marble Palace, part of the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg, in January 2014 and in Moscow as part of the Moscow Photography Biennale in April 2014. Two new exhibitions were held of Charles March’s photographs in early 2015: ‘Wood Land’ which was held at Venus Over Manhattan Gallery in New York City; and ‘Abstract and Intentional’ which was held at Hamiltons Gallery in London.

Goodwood

Main article: Goodwood House

In 1994, Lord March moved from London to Goodwood to take over the management of the estate.

Motor sport at Goodwood was started by his grandfather, Freddie Richmond, who opened the Goodwood Motor Circuit in 1948. The present Lord March established the Festival of Speed at Goodwood House in 1993, and then brought motor racing back to the circuit, which had closed in 1966, with the creation of the Goodwood Revival in 1998. Both events have since become recognised as some of the most unusual, exciting and creative events in the world.

The Goodwood Estate Company is a diverse portfolio of businesses which includes Goodwood Racecourse; a 4,000 acre organic farm; two eighteen hole golf courses; Goodwood Aerodrome and Flying School and a 91 bedroom hotel. The Group employs over 550 people and attracts 800,000 visitors to the Estate each year. The headquarters of Rolls Royce Motor Cars is also on the Estate which covers 12,000 acres to the north of Chichester.

Family

Charles March lives in Goodwood House with his wife, Janet (née Astor), and their four children.

March has been married twice, and has three sons and two daughters:

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