Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox 1821 - 1886

Henry Lennox was the second son of the 5th Duke of Richmond, and had six sisters, hence Disraeli's reference to his knowledge of the value of a sister. At this time he was a Liberal-Conservative for Chichester (from 1846 - 1885) and the lord of the treasury in 1852 and 1858-9. The later appointment was thanks to the influence of his close friend, Benjamin Disraeli. The two of them became close friends in 1851. Their early relationship was much more emotional that their later, political interactions (e.g. In an 1852 letter to Lennox, Disraeli writes,"I can only tell you that I love you" Moneypenny and Buckle, vol.3, p.387). Many biographers of Benjamin suggest that a homosexual affair, if never physically consummated, was certainly present between the two. Henry never married.