Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (née Lady Charlotte Gordon; 20 September 1768 – 5 May 1842)[1] was a Scottish aristocrat and peeress best known as the hostess of the famed ball held in Brussels on the eve of the Battle of Quatre Bras.

[1] In 1814, the family moved to Brussels, where the Duchess gave the ball at which the Duke of Wellington received confirmation that the Army of the North under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte had entered the territory of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands near Charleroi (in what is now the Kingdom of Belgium).

The Duchess and her family continued to live in Brussels until 1818, when her husband was appointed Governor General of British North America.

[citation needed] She died at the age of 73 in London on 5 May 1842.

[1] The Duke and Duchess had seven sons and seven daughters: