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Lady Augusta Katherine Gordon-Lennox (14 January 1827 – 3 April 1904) was a daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and his wife Lady Caroline Paget. She was married to Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar.

Family and early life
Lady Augusta was the second eldest daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and his wife Lady Caroline Paget, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey.

Marriage
On 27 November 1851, Lady Augusta married Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, a nephew of Queen Adelaide. According to the contemporary British women's magazine The Lady's Realm, the union was a "love-match" that led to Edward relinquishing his place in the line of succession to the Grand Ducal throne of Saxe-Weimar.

He died in 1902.