Lord Henry Lennox
Lord Henry Lennox | |
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First Secretary of the Admiralty | |
In office 16 July 1866 – 1 December 1868 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | The Earl of Derby Benjamin Disraeli |
Preceded by | Thomas Baring |
Succeeded by | William Edward Baxter |
First Commissioner of Works | |
In office 21 March 1874 – 14 August 1876 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli |
Preceded by | William Patrick Adam |
Succeeded by | Hon. Gerard Noel |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 November 1821 |
Died | 29 August 1886 | (aged 64)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Amelia Brooman (d. 1903) |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox PC (2 November 1821 – 29 August 1886), known as Lord Henry Lennox, was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1846 to 1885 and was a close friend of Benjamin Disraeli.
Background and education[]
Lennox was the third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, and Lady Caroline, daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He was the brother of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Lord Alexander Gordon-Lennox and Lord George Gordon-Lennox. He was educated at The Prebendal School, Chichester, then University of Oxford.[1]
Political career[]
Lennox entered the House of Commons in 1846 as Member of Parliament for Chichester, in Sussex. He represented this constituency until 1885,[2] when he stood for Partick, but was defeated.[3]
Lennox held office in every Conservative government between 1852 and 1876. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury in 1852 and between 1858 and 1859 in the first two short-lived governments of the Earl of Derby before becoming First Secretary of the Admiralty in 1866 in Derby's last government, a post he held until 1868, the last year under the premiership of his close friend Benjamin Disraeli. According to John F. Beeler in British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, 1866-1880, Lennox acted as a spy to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Disraeli, informing him of the intentions of leading admirals.[4]
He served again under Disraeli as First Commissioner of Works from 1874 to 1876[5] and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1874.[6] He was forced to resign as First Commissioner of Works after revelations in the case of Twycross v Grant regarding the Lisbon Tramways swindle, of which company he was a director.[7][8]
Personal life[]
Lennox married Amelia Susannah (née Brooman), widow of John White, in 1883. They had no children. He died in August 1886, aged 64. Lady Henry Lennox died in February 1903.[1] John White was the uncle of another peer, Lord Overtoun, while lady Amelia was the great-grandmother of 1950s MP Richard Brooman-White.[9]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b thepeerage.com Rt. Hon. Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox
- ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Chichester to Clitheroe". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889, page 214
- ^ Beeler, John F. British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, 1866-1880, page 74. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
- ^ "No. 24081". The London Gazette. 27 March 1874. p. 1873.
- ^ "No. 24112". The London Gazette. 10 July 1874. p. 3423.
- ^ Sanders, Lloyd Charles (1893). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ The New York Times 7 August 1876. "Affairs in England".
- ^ Loch mansion had colourful residents, Helensburgh Heritage Trust, 29 July 2019
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Henry Lennox
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