Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March
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{{infobox person
| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable
| name = The Countess of March
| image = Amy Gordon-Lennox Countess of March.jpg
| caption=Amy Ricardo, 1866, by Camille Silvy
| birth_name = Amy Mary Ricardo
| birth_date = {{birthdate|1847|06|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Paddington, London
| death_date = {{dda|1879|08|23|1847|06|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = Belgravia, London
| parents = Percy Ricardo
Matilda Mawdesley Hensley
| spouse = {{marriage|Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March
|10 November 1868|23 August 1879|reason=died}}
| children = Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond
Lady Evelyn Cotterell
Violet Brassey, Baroness Brassey
Lord Esmé Gordon-Lennox
Lord Bernard Gordon-Lennox
| relations = Horace Ricardo (brother)
F. C. Ricardo (brother)
}}
Amy Mary Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March ({{nee}} Ricardo; 24 June 1847 – 23 August 1879) was an English peeress from the Ricardo family. She was the first wife of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, and the mother of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond. She died before her husband inherited the dukedom.
Early life
Amy was born at 5 Westbourne Crescent in Tyburnia, Paddington,{{cite news |title= Births |work=The Times |date=25 June 1847 |page= 9}} the daughter of stockbroker Percy Ricardo (1820–1892)G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 601. of Bramley Park, Guildford, Surrey,The house later became the home of Gertrude Jekyll: {{cite web|url=https://www.surreylife.co.uk/homes-gardens/property-market/surrey-s-most-impressive-country-houses-past-and-present-1-2270685|title=Surrey's most impressive country houses, past and present|date=9 July 2013|website=Surrey Life|access-date=12 September 2018}} and his wife, the former Matilda Mawdesley Hensley (1826–1880), herself the daughter of John Isaac Hensley of Holborn in Middlesex. Among her siblings were sister Ellen Maud Ricardo (wife of Sir Hervey Bruce, 4th Baronet) and brothers Colonel Horace Ricardo and Colonel F. C. Ricardo.
Personal life
File:Lady Evelyn Gordon-Lennox (1872–1922).png, Vol. XLIII, No. 549, 5 August 1903]]
On 10 November 1868, Amy married Charles Gordon-Lennox, the future duke, who then went by his courtesy title Earl of March. He was the eldest son of Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond and former Frances Harriett Greville.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3336. They had five children before her death in 1879:
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (1870–1935), who married Hilda Madeline Brassey, eldest surviving daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey, MP, of Preston Hall, and had children.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Wireless to New York |title=Duke of Richmond Dead at Age of 64; Title, Inherited From Son of Charles II, One of Three of Rank Held by Him. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/05/08/archives/duke-of-richmond-dead-at-age-of-64-title-inherited-from-son-of.html |access-date=12 January 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=8 May 1935}}
- Lady Evelyn Amy Gordon-Lennox (1872–1922), who married Sir John Richard Geers Cotterell, 4th Baronet, and had children.
- Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (1874–1946), who married Major Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, and had children
- Brigadier-General Lord Esmé Gordon-Lennox (1875–1949), who married, first, the Hon. Hermione Frances Caroline Fellowes, and second, Rosamond Lorys Palmer, and had children from both marriages
- Major Lord Bernard Gordon-Lennox (1878–1914), who married Hon. Evelyn Loch, second daughter of Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch, and had children; he was killed in action during the First World War.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0D14FA3C5C13738DDDAD0994D9415B848DF1D3 "Duke's son killed in battle in France." The New York Times, 13 November 1914.]
In August 1879, following a "lingering and painful illness" Lady March died at the family's Belgravia home at 3 Grosvenor Crescent.{{cite news |title= Obituary |work=The Times |date= 25 August 1879 |page= 10 }}
Her husband remarried Isabel Sophie Craven in 1882, and had further children. Isabel died in November 1887, and the duke thereafter remained a widower until his death in 1928.
=Published works=
In 1877, the countess compiled and published a catalogue of the artworks held at the family homes, Goodwood House and Gordon Castle.{{cite book|author=Elizabeth A. Pergam|title=The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: "Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public "|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCQxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT398|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-54279-1|pages=398–}}
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