Lord Nicholas Gordon-Lennox

Lord Nicholas Charles Gordon-Lennox KCMG KCVO (31 January 1931 – 11 October 2004), the younger son of the 9th Duke of Richmond and his wife, Elizabeth, was a British diplomat, serving as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Spain from 1984 to 1989.

He was raised at the family home of Goodwood House before being sent with his elder brother, Charles, to the United States at the outbreak of World War II.

In 1963, he returned to England again to become Private Secretary to Caccia again, in the latter's post as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, before moving to Madrid as Head of the Chancery in 1966.

In 1979 he became Assistant Under-Secretary at the Foreign Commonwealth Office and his final diplomatic post was as British Ambassador to Spain from 1984 to 1989.

Gordon-Lennox was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 1986, for his role as Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Spain.