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Lennox was created Duke of Richmond, '''Earl of March''' and '''Baron Settrington''' in the Peerage Of England on 9 August 1675 and '''Duke of Lennox''', '''Earl of Darnley''' and '''Lord Torbolton''' in the Peerage Of Scotland on 9 September 1675 , and was invested as a Knight Of The Garter in 1681. He was appointed Lord High Admiral of Scotland, under reservation of the commission granted to James, Duke of Albany and York (later James VII) as Lord High Admiral for life. The appointment was therefore only effective between 1701 and 1705, when Lennox resigned all his Scottish lands and offices. It appears that he was Master of a Lodge in Chichester in 1696, and so was one of the few known seventeenth century Freemason s, and certainly one of remarkably high rank. Married to Anne Brudenell (died 1722), daughter of Francis, Baron Brudenell ; with whom he had three children:
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