Lennox

Lennox (Levenachs, 'fields of the Leven'), an ancient Scottish territory, comprising the basin of the Leven and Loch Lomond—the whole of Dumfries-shire, great part of Stirlingshire, and portions of Perth and Renfrew shires. It gave name to an earldom (1174–1581), and then to a dukedom, conferred by Charles II. (q.v.) in 1680 on one of his illegitimate sons, Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lennox, who in 1702 sold the Lennox estates to the Marquis of Montrose. See GORDON; and The Lennox, by Sir W. Fraser (3 vols. 1874).