Lord George Lennox

Lord George Lennox
Lord George Lennox
	Lord George Lennox, by George Romney
Born	November 29, 1737
Died	25 March 1805 (aged 67)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	General
Commands held	33rd Regiment of Foot
Battles/wars	Seven Years' War

General Lord George Henry Lennox (29 November 1737 – 25 March 1805) was the second son of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and was thus descended from King Charles II of England. He was a brother of the famous Lennox sisters.

Military career[]

From 1758 to 1762 George Lennox was the Colonel of the 33rd Regiment of Foot. In 1757 a second battalion (2nd/33rd) of the 33rd Regiment had been raised. In 1758 this battalion became an independent regiment, the 72nd Regiment of Foot. At that time his elder brother Charles Lennox had been the Colonel of the 33rd and was then appointed Colonel of the new regiment. George Lennox took command of the 33rd Regiment (1st/33rd).^[1] At the beginning of May 1758 the 33rd Regiment was stationed in Blandford, Dorset and was then moved to the Isle of Wight to take part in an attack on the French coast at St Malo on 5 May in the Seven Years' War. On 1 August both Brothers Regiments (33rd & 72nd) were involved in a highly successful raid on Cherbourg, which resulted in the destruction of 30 French ships, and the capture of 200 guns and rockets, plus a number of French Regimental Colours and a large quantity of booty. After this raid the George Lennox and the 33rd Regiment remained inactive, garrisoned on the Isle of Wight on Internal security duties.

On 29 December 1762, he was appointed colonel of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, whom he commanded until his death. On 16 February 1784, he was appointed Constable of the Tower of London.

Family[]

Lord George Lennox married Lady Louisa Kerr, daughter of William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian in 1759, and they had four children:

Lady Maria Louisa Lennox (2 November 1760 – July 1843).
Lady Emily Charlotte Lennox (December 1763 – 19 October 1832), married Adm. Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley and had issue.
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond (9 September 1764 – 28 August 1819).
Lady Georgiana Lennox (6 December 1765 – 20 January 1841), married Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst.

Despite the Hanoverian side taken by his father, George made an arranged marriage for his own son Charles with the heiress of Clan Gordon, a notable Jacobite family.

Ancestry[]

References[]

↑ History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (page 41), Brereton / Savoury, ISBN 0-9521552-0-6

External links[]

thePeerage.com

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John Page Hon. Augustus Keppel	Member of Parliament for Chichester with John Page 1761–1767	Succeeded by John Page William Keppel
Preceded by John Butler Thomas Pelham	Member of Parliament for Sussex with Thomas Pelham 1767–1768 Richard Harcourt 1768–1774 Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson 1774–1780 Thomas Pelham 1780–1790 1767–1790	Succeeded by Thomas Pelham Charles Lennox
Military offices
Preceded by Sir Henry Erskine, Bt	Colonel of the 25th Regiment of Foot 1762–1805	Succeeded by Hon. Charles FitzRoy
Preceded by The Earl Waldegrave	Governor of Plymouth 1784–1805	Succeeded by The Earl of Chatham
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl Cornwallis	Constable of the Tower Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets 1784	Succeeded by The Earl Cornwallis

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[1] History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (page 41), Brereton / Savoury, ISBN 0-9521552-0-6

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