AND TEE DUKES OF RICHMOND. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE SECOND DUKE. 



Charles, the eldest cliild of the first Duke, and 

 afterwards second Duke of Richmond, Lennox, and 

 Aubigny, was born at Goodwood, on the 18th of May, 

 1701. As Earl of March, he satin the House of Com- 

 mons for the City of Chichester from 1722 till the 

 following year, when he succeeded to the dukedom. 

 George I. having revived the ancient Military Order 

 of the Bath, the Duke was chosen, in 1725, as one of 

 the knights of that Order, and in the following year 

 he was offered and accepted " the Garter," being in- 

 stalled at Windsor as a Knight Companion of the Most 

 Noble Order on the 16th of June. He was at that 

 time one of the Lords of the Bedchamber and aide- 

 de-camp to his Majesty ; and at the coronation on the 

 17th of October, 1727, was High Constable of England 

 for the occasion. 



In 1734, the dukedom of Aubigny in France, with 

 the peerage of that kingdom, devolved upon his Grace. 

 On the 8th of January, 1735, he was appointed 



