Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny,( 18 May 17018 August 1750) was a British nobleman, peer, and politician.
He was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, an illegitimate son of King Charles II.
He held a number of posts in connection with his high office but is best remembered for his patronage of cricket.
He has been described as the most important of the sport's early patrons and did much to help its evolution from village cricket to first- class cricket.
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox, 4th Duke of Aubigny,( 9 December 176428 August 1819) was a Scottish peer, soldier, politician, and Governor General of British North America.
Timothy J. McCann
Timothy J.( Tim) McCann( born 4 June 1944) has been an archivist at the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester since 1967.
He has written several books about the history of Sussex including a classic work on cricket:" Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century"( 2004).
He previously wrote and edited" The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724- 1750"( 1984), a work about Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and his close friend Thomas Pelham- Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.
William Bedle
William Bedle( 22 February 1679( Julian calendar date, 1680 in the Gregorian calendar) – 3 June 1768) was an English cricketer who played for Dartford Cricket Club and Kent county cricket teams in the first quarter of the 18th century.
With the possible exception of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, Bedle is the earliest known accomplished player, certainly the earliest who is renowned solely for his expertise as a player.
He was born in Bromley but lived most of his life near Dartford, where he was a wealthy farmer and grazier.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, 1st Duke of Liria and Jérica, 1st Duke of Fitz- James( 21 August 1670 – 12 June 1734) was an Anglo- French military leader, illegitimate son of King James II of England by Arabella Churchill, sister of the 1st Duke of Marlborough.
Berwick was a successful general in the pay of Louis XIV of France.
Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death.
Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649.
However, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a "de facto" republic led by Oliver Cromwell.
Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe.
Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands.
A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain.
On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim.
After 1660, all legal documents stating a regnal year did so as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649.
Charles's English parliament enacted laws known as the Clarendon Code, designed to shore up the position of the re-established Church of England.
Charles acquiesced to the Clarendon Code even though he favoured a policy of religious tolerance.
The major foreign policy issue of his early reign was the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
In 1670, he entered into the Treaty of Dover, an alliance with his cousin King Louis XIV of France.
Louis agreed to aid him in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay him a pension, and Charles secretly promised to convert to Catholicism at an unspecified future date.
Charles attempted to introduce religious freedom for Catholics and Protestant dissenters with his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it.
In 1679, Titus Oates's revelations of a supposed Popish Plot sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, was a Catholic.
The crisis saw the birth of the pro-exclusion Whig and anti-exclusion Tory parties.
Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were executed or forced into exile.
Charles dissolved the English Parliament in 1681, and ruled alone until his death in 1685.
He was received into the Catholic Church on his deathbed.
Charles was one of the most popular and beloved kings of England, known as the "Merry Monarch", in reference to both the liveliness and hedonism of his court and the general relief at the return to normality after over a decade of rule by Cromwell and the Puritans.
Charles's wife, Catherine of Braganza, bore no live children, but Charles acknowledged at least twelve illegitimate children by various mistresses.
He was succeeded by his brother James.
Lady Sarah Lennox
Lady Sarah Lennox (14 February 1745 – August 1826) was the most notorious of the famous Lennox sisters, daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Aubigny (29 July 167227 May 1723), of Goodwood House near Chichester in Sussex, was an illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth.
Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond
Esmé Stuart, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 5th Duke of Lennox( 2 November 164910 August 1660) was the son of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond and Mary Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
His father, who had been a loyal support of Charles I of England during the English Civil War, died in 1655, and Esmé and his mother went into exile in France.
He died of the smallpox in 1660, aged 10, in Paris, unmarried and his titles passed to his cousin Charles.
He was interred, on 4 September 1660, in Westminster Abbey.
Anne Lennox, Duchess of Richmond
Anne Lennox, Duchess of Richmond( 1671 – 9 December 1722), formerly Anne Brudenell, was the wife of two English noblement: first, Henry Belasyse, 2nd Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, and second, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond.
She was the mother of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.
She was the daughter of Francis Brudenell, Baron Brudenell, and his wife, the former Lady Frances Savile.
Her paternal grandfather was Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan; her father would have inherited the earldom had he not predeceased his father.
Her first husband was Henry Belasyse, whom she married in about 1689; Belasyse died in August 1691.
The couple had no children.
On 8 January 1692 Anne married the duke, who was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England.
Their children were:
The duke also had an illegitimate daughter by his mistress, Jacqueline de Mézières.
The duchess died in 1722, aged about 51.
She was buried on 16 December 1722 in the Brudenell family vault at St Peter's Church, Deene, Northamptonshire, where her marble memorial, designed by Giovanni Battista Guelfi and erected in 1734, can still be seen.
Her husband died the following year.

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