Letter 3601

Lennox wishes he had ‘never brought the poor little things out of England’, since both of his daughters have taken ill in France. The Duchess of Richmond is pregnant and doing well. A young man of Lennox’s acquaintance named Monsieur Dufay studied with Cardinal Rohan. Dufay toured Italy and France, where he is from, and studied mathematics and chemistry. He might travel to England with Lennox. ‘I had forgot to tell you that Monsieur Dufay is Chimical professor of the Academy of Sciences here’. Charles Lennox (1701-1750), 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, was a politician and sportsman. In 1724 he was appointed aide-de-camp to George I and later worked for George II. Lennox was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1724 (Timothy J. McCann, ‘Lennox, Charles, second duke of Richmond, second duke of Lennox, and duke of Aubigny in the French nobility (1701–1750)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16450, accessed 13 Aug 2014]).