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.

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. He returned to England in 1944 to join Eton and later won a scholarship to read History at Worcester College, Oxford.

After graduation and National Service with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, he joined HM Foreign Service in 1954 and became Private Secretary to the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Harold Caccia in 1957, for which he was awarded the LVO. He transferred to Chile in 1961 as Second, then First Secretary at Santiago.

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

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