The son of Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, he succeeded to the titles when his father died in 1989.

[2] He was also a patron of Prisoners Abroad, a charity supporting the welfare of Britons imprisoned overseas and their families.

In his own words:[4] It is, in my view, a scandal that there are areas in Sussex which are in the bottom 20% of national measures of social deprivation.

At the same time, when local people or companies think of giving to charity they tend to think of large national bodies, because little is known about the small community groups on their doorsteps.The then Earl of March married in 1951 Susan Monica Grenville-Grey (1932-2023), daughter of Colonel Cecil Everard Montague Grenville-Grey and Louise Monica (née Morrison-Bell).

They had three children: The Duke and Duchess, then Earl and Countess of March, attracted press attention when they adopted two girls of mixed race during a time of anti-immigrant sentiment and when interracial marriage was frowned upon: Both girls were born in England to white mothers, with a Ghanaian and a black South African father respectively.