Career

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1902, and in 1927 she became the first chairman of the National Gardens Scheme. She held the office of Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) for Sussex and, later, Morayshire. She was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and, later, as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.

She died in 1971, aged 99.

On 8 June 1893 Hilda Madeline Brassey married Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, the 8th Duke of Richmond (born 30 December 1870 — died 7 May 1935). They had the following children:

Lady Amy Gwendoline Gordon-Lennox (born 5 May 1894 — died 1975)

Honorary

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (born 15 August 1895 — died 5 September 1895)

Lady Doris Hilda Gordon-Lennox (born 6 September 1896 — died circa 8 February 1980)

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington (born 26 January 1899 — died 24 August 1919)

Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 9th Duke of Lennox, 9th Duke of Gordon (born 5 February 1904 — died 2 November 1989).