page_title: Clan Lennox
section_title: Lennoxes of Woodhead
hierarchical_section_title: Clan Lennox / History / 15th and 16th centuries / Lennoxes of Woodhead
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodhead House, Lennoxtown Woodhead House, the residence of the Kincaid Lennox family was considered by Mr. John Kincaid Lennox and his wife to be a little too 'lowly' for would be aristocrats, so they employed Glasgow architect David Hamilton to extend it for them. However, Mr. Hamilton thought the site and style of the existing mansion presented difficulties, and suggested that the plans to upgrade should be abandoned in favour of a new architecturally ornamental castle, with all refinement, style and comforts of the day. The new building was Lennox Castle.
context_page_description: Clan Lennox is a Lowland Scottish clan. The clan chiefs were the original Earls of Lennox, although this title went via an heiress to other noble families in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The chiefship of the clan then went to the Lennox of Woodehead branch.
context_section_description: A branch of the Clan Lennox, the Lennoxes of Woodhead, feuded with the Clan Kincaid in the 1570s. The feud has been commented by some historians as remarkable because it was due to a marriage with the Lennox family that the Kincaid name was later re-established as an independent clan in the twentieth century.
caption: Woodhead Castle, seat of the Lennox of Balcorrach and Woodhead branch of the clan.
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