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The Duchess of Richmond and the Waterloo Ball 47
The Duchess took the keenest interest in the Regiment which her
mother had established. Thus, when the Duke of Richmond succeeded
_. _, . . his brother-in-law the Duke of Bedford, the Lord-
The Duchess and
the Gordon Lieutenant of Ireland, in 1807, he reviewed the Gordon
Highlanders ; and Colonel Greenhill Gardyne tells us
that the Duchess made much of them, and applied for two regimental
bonnets, probably for her boys.
The Duke died from the effects of the bite of a fox, near Rich-
mond, Montreal — he became Governor of Canada in 1818 — on August
28th, 1819. It may be remembered that Lord Doneraile
met the same terrible fate in 1887. The Duchess, who
outlived him by twenty-three years, died on May 5th, 1842, at the age
of seventy-three. She bore the Duke fourteen children, namely, seven
sons and seven daughters, as follows : —
1. Charles, ^th Duke of Richmond, 1791-1860. He adopted, by royal license,
the name of " Gordon " in front of " Lennox" (on the death of his uncle)
on August 9th, 1836. He was wounded at the battle of Orthez, and
was A.D.C. to the Prince of Orange at Waterloo. He was the
father of
Charles Henry, 6th Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who was created
Duke of Gordon in 1876.
2. Lord John George Lennox, 1793- 1 873. He had five sons, among them
Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox, of the Royal Engineers, who won the
Victoria Cross at the battle of Sebastopol.
3. Lord Henry Adam Lennox, Royal Navy, who was drowned by falling
overboard from H.M.S. Blake, when sailing from Portmahon in 18 12.
4. Lord William Pitt Lennox, 1 799-1881. He wrote his memoirs.
5. Lord Frederick Lennox, 1801-1829. He was an officer in the army.
6. Lord Sussex Lennox, 1802- 1874.
7. Lord Arthur Lennox, 1806-1S64. He was in the army.
8. Lady Mary Lennox, married Sir Charles Fitzroy, and died in 1847.
9. Lady Sarah Lennox, married in the year of Waterloo Sir Peregrine
Maitland, and died in 1854. She was the grandmother of Captain
Frederick Kerr, D.S.O., of the Gordon Highlanders, and of Commander
Kerr, R.N., who made an interesting reference to Jane Maxwell, on
the occasion of a recent visit of the torpedo flotilla to Aberdeen.