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His GraceThe Duke of RichmondCBE DL
The Duke in 2011
Born	Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (1955-01-08) 8 January 1955 (age 69)
Title	11th Duke of Richmond 11th Duke of Lennox 11th Duke of Aubigny 6th Duke of Gordon etc
Spouses	Sally Clayton ​ ​(m. 1976; div. 1989)​ Hon. Janet Elizabeth Astor ​ ​(m. 1991)​
Children	5
Parents	Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond (father) Susan Grenville-Grey (mother)

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, 11th Duke of Lennox, 11th Duke of Aubigny, 6th Duke of Gordon, CBE, DL (born 8 January 1955), styled Lord Settrington until 1989 and then Earl of March and Kinrara until 2017, is a British aristocrat and owner of Goodwood Estate in Sussex. He is the founder of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival.

The Duke of Richmond serves as President of the British Automobile Racing Club, Patron of the TT Riders Association, and is an honorary member of the British Racing Drivers Club, the Guild of Motoring Writers and the 500 Owners Club.

Photography

Having a passion for film and photography since the age of 10, Lord Settrington left Eton College at the first possible opportunity and at 17 worked for the film director Stanley Kubrick on the film Barry Lyndon.

Goodwood

In 1995, the Earl of March, as he was then styled, moved from London to the family seat Goodwood to take over management of the estate, following family tradition of the estate management devolving upon the heir apparent when the latter turns forty.

Motorsport at Goodwood was started by his grandfather, Freddie March, who opened the Goodwood Motor Circuit in 1948. March established the Festival of Speed at Goodwood House in 1993. He then brought motor racing back to the circuit, which had closed in 1966, with the creation of the Goodwood Revival in 1998. Both events have since become recognised as some of the most unusual, exciting and creative events in the world.

The Goodwood Estate covers 12,000 acres to the north of Chichester. The Goodwood Estate Company is a diverse portfolio of businesses which includes: Goodwood Racecourse, a 4,000-acre organic farm, two eighteen-hole golf courses, Goodwood Aerodrome and Flying School, and a 91-bedroom hotel. The Group employs over 550 people and attracts 800,000 visitors to the estate each year. Also on the estate are Goodwood Cricket Club and the headquarters of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

A Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for West Sussex since 2006, Richmond was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to heritage, sport and charity.

Marriages and children

The duke has been married twice and has three sons and two daughters. Marrying firstly in 1976 to Sally Clayton, daughter of Maurice Clayton, he and Lady Settrington had one daughter:

• Lady Alexandra Gordon-Lennox (born 1985), married 2013 Sean Thomas Brennan (div).

Divorced from his first wife in 1989, on 30 November 1991 Lord March married secondly the Hon. Janet Elizabeth Astor (born 1 December 1961), daughter of William, 3rd Viscount Astor, by whom he has one daughter and three sons:

• Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara (born 20 December 1994), heir apparent to the family titles
• Lord William Rupert Charles Gordon-Lennox (born 29 November 1996)
• Lady Eloise Cordelia Gordon-Lennox (born 10 March 2000)
• Lord Frederick Lysander Gordon-Lennox (born 10 March 2000).

In January 2016, he and the Duchess (then Earl and Countess of March) were attacked and tied up in a major jewel robbery at Goodwood House.

In popular culture

March's name appears in the video game Gran Turismo 6, when he sends players an invitation related to the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Titles and styles

• 8 January 1955 – 2 November 1989: Lord Settrington
• 2 November 1989 – 1 September 2017: Earl of March and Kinrara
• 1 September 2017 – present: His Grace The Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon

Arms

Coat of arms of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond

Coronet That of a British Duke Crest 1st, a Bull's Head erased Sable horned Or; 2nd, on a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion statant guardant Or crowned with a Ducal Coronet Gules and gorged with a Collar compony of four pieces Argent charged with eight Roses Gules and the Last; 3rd, out of a Ducal Coronet a Stag's Head affrontée Proper attired with ten Tynes Or Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th grand quarters, the Royal Arms of Charles II (viz. quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland); the whole within a Bordure compony Argent charged with Roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper and the Last; overall an Inescutcheon Gules charged with three Buckles Or (Aubigny); 2nd grand quarter, Argent a Saltire engrailed Gules between four Roses of the Second barbed and seeded Proper (Lennox); 3rd grand quarter, quarterly, 1st, Azure three Boars' Heads couped Or (Gordon); 2nd, Or three Lions' Heads erased Gules (Badenoch); 3rd, Or three Crescents within a Double Tressure flory counter-flory Gules (Seton); 4th, Azure three Cinquefoils Argent (Fraser) Supporters Dexter: a Unicorn Argent armed, crined and unguled Or; Sinister: an Antelope Argent, also armed, crined and unguled Or, each Supporter gorged with a Collar compony as the Crest Motto Over the 1st Crest, Avant Darnlie; over the 2nd Crest, En La Rose Je Fleuris; and over the 3rd Crest, Bydand Orders The Circlet of the Order of the British Empire

References

1. ^ "Richmond, 11th Duke of, (Charles Henry Gordon Lennox) (born 8 Jan. 1955)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u26582. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
2. ^ O'Grady, Sean (30 July 2009). "Earl of March: A glorious example of the landed classes". The Independent.
3. "Alain Elkann Interviews Lord March about the Goodwood sporting Estate, including the Goodwood Revival, Glorious Goodwood and Festival of Speed". alainelkanninterviews.com. 14 June 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
4. www.autocar.co.uk
5. www.wtf1.com
6. www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com
7. "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N11.
8. www.burkespeerage.com
9. "Goodwood House raid: Ring Charles II gave to mistress among heirlooms stolen in £700k stately home break-in". The Daily Telegraph. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
10. Gran Turismo 6 Archived 27 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine, gran-turismo.com. Retrieved 25 March 2016.

External links

• Information about his association with Goodwood
• "Typical biker: Earl of March". The Daily Telegraph. 19 September 2000.
• 2012 Goodwood Revival Picture Gallery

v t e Current dukes in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
Sorted in order of precedence
Royal dukes	Prince William, Duke of Cornwall, Rothesay and Cambridge Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Prince Andrew, Duke of York Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
England	Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland
Scotland	Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 16th Duke of Hamilton Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Lennox Richard Scott, 12th Duke of Queensberry Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose Charles Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe
Great Britain	Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Brandon Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland
Ireland	Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Duke of Leinster James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn
United Kingdom	Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Gordon Torquhil Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife
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