Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox

Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox KG (1579 – 30 July 1624) was the son of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox. He was a patron of the playwright Ben Jonson, who lived in his household for five years.

He married Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, in 1609. They had eleven children:

He died in 1624 and was interred, on 6 August 1624, in Westminster Abbey.[1]