Duke of Richmond.—On Sunday night, about ten o’clock, died, at his seat at Goodwood, in Sussex, Charles Lenox, Duke of Richmond, in England, and of Lenox, in Scotland, Knight of the Garter, &c. in the 73d year of his age, being born Feb. 22, 1734. He married, April 1, 1757, Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the Earl of Aylesbury.
His Grace was of Royal extraction, being descended from Charles Lenox, natural son of King Charles II. by Lady Louisa Renne de Penencourt, a French Lady, who came to England with the Duchess of Orleans, the King’s sister; and whom his Majesty not only created Duchess of Portsmouth, Countess of Farnham, and Baroness of Petersfield, in England, but prevailed on Louis XIV. to confer on her the title of Duchess of Aubigny, in France.—His Grace was a Field-Marshal of Great-Britain, and a Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (Blue).
The reports lately circulated about his Grace’s marriage are not true, and he will be succeeded in his titles and estates by his nephew, the Hon. Gen. Lenox, Representative for the county of Sussex. We understand that the Duke’s communication to his successor, related only to the provision his Grace had made for three natural daughters, and a request that they and their mother might be suffered to reside on a particular farm near Goodwood, to which the mother was greatly attached.
It is said his Majesty has given the vacant Blue Ribband, and the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Sussex, to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. A messenger has also been dispatched to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, with his Majesty’s gracious offer of the command of the fine regiment of Oxford Blues.
