with Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille - Through Charles Lennox. Duke of Richmond, the Gordon-Lennox Lines, and the FitzGerald Lines of the Dukes of Leinster
This volume covers the descent through the Dukes of Richmond and the FitzGerald Dukes of Leinster. It includes generations of the recent Dukes of Northumberland, Hamilton and Sutherland, the Earls of Wemyss, Arran, Plymouth, Bathurst and Cowley, Lords Rayleigh, and the ancient Barony de Ros. Included are Charles James Fox, Pitt’s rival; Lord Edward FitzGerald, the Irish patriot; Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria’s Secretary; The Agha Khan; and Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. Wartime SOE heroines, freedom-fighter Judith Todd, the Earls Gowrie, and other recipients of the Victoria Cross. We also find Humphrey Lyttelton, the broadcaster, Emma Tennant, the author, and politicians Anthony Nutting, and Charles and Peter Morrison, Margaret Thatcher’s PPS. By marriage, Edward Grey, first world war Foreign Secretary, George Buchanan, last Ambassador to Imperial Russia; Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, and Anni-Fryd Lyngstad of ABBA
301 pages
©P. Arnold, 2019
ISBN 978-0-9957174-8-0