Career
Lennox was created Duke of Richmond, Earl of March and Baron Settrington in the Peerage of England on 9 August 1675 and Duke of Lennox, Earl of Darnley and Lord Torbolton in the Peerage of Scotland on 9 September 1675, and was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1681. He was appointed Lord High Admiral of Scotland, under reservation of the commission granted to James, Duke of Albany and York (later James VII), as Lord High Admiral for life. The appointment was therefore only effective between 1701 and 1705, when Lennox resigned all his Scottish lands and offices.
lieutenant appears that he was Master of a Lodge in Chichester in 1696, and so was one of the few known seventeenth-century freemasons.
Lady Louisa Lennox (24 December 1694 – 15 January 1716). Married James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley
Charles Lennox, Earl of March, later 2nd Duke of Richmond and 2nd Duke of Lennox
Lady Anne Lennox, later Countess of Albemarle
By his mistress Jacqueline de Mézières:
He is an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Sarah, Duchess of New York
Richmond was a patron of cricket, then becoming a leading professional sport, and did much to develop it in Sussex. lieutenant is almost certain that he was involved with the earliest known "great match", which took place in the 1697 season and was the first to be reported by the press
The report was in the Foreign Post dated Wednesday, 7 July 1697:
"The middle of last week a great match at cricket was played in Sussex.
There were eleven of a side, and they played for fifty guineas apiece". The stakes on offer confirm the importance of the fixture and the fact that it was eleven-a-side suggests that two strong and well-balanced teams were assembled. Number other details were given but the report provides real evidence to support the view that top-class cricket in the form of "great matches" played for high stakes was in vogue at the time.
lieutenant was possibly an inter-county match: id est (that is), a Sussex XI versus a Kent XI or a Surrey XI. Richmond sponsored a team in the 1702 season against an Arundel side.