Charles Gordon-Lennox, Lord March, 5th Duke of Richmond
1791–1860
Army officer and politician. Known as Lord March until he succeeded to the dukedom in 1819. Provincial grand master of Freemasons, Sussex, 1819–60. Postmaster-general, 1830–4. President of the Royal Agricultural Society, 1845–60. FRS 1840.
Sources
Complete peerage
ODNB
Royal Society past fellows (https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/PersonSearch.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons, accessed 3 June 2022)
Bibliography
Complete peerage: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. By George Edward Cokayne. Revised edition. Edited by Vicary Gibbs, et al. 13 vols. in 14. London: St Catherine Press. 1910–59.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.


