Social Victorians/1885-03-17 Duchess of Bedford Reception
Appearance
Reception, or Evening Party, hosted by the Duchess of Bedford
[edit | edit source]Logistics
[edit | edit source]- 1885 March 17, Tuesday night
- The Duchess of Bedford's residence, Eaton Square
- Host: Elizabeth Sackville-West Russell, Duchess of Bedford
Who Was Present
[edit | edit source]- the German Ambassador George Herbert Münster and the Countesses Olga and Marie Münster
- the Turkish Ambassador and Madlle. Musurus
- the Brazilian Minister and Baroness de Penedo
- the Spanish Minister
- the Portuguese Minister and Madame d'Antas
- the Netherlands Minister and the Countess de Bylandt
- the Swedish Minister
- Madame de Staal
- Baron de Plessen
- Blum Pasha
- Count N. Adlerberg
- Count and Countess Francis Lützow
- M. and Madame de Zulueta
- M. Anatole Kroupensky
- Captain Oldekop
- Baroness de Brienen and Madlle. de Brienen
- the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk
- the Duke of Argyll and Lady Evelyn Campbell
- the Duchess of Roxburghe and Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill
- the Marquis of Northampton
- the Lord Chancellor and Lady Sophia Palmer
- Earl Manvers and Lady Mary Pierrepont
- the Earl and Countess of Denbigh and Lady Clare Feilding
- the Earl of Arran and Lady Mabel Gore
- the Earl and Countess of Rosebery
- the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe
- the Countess of Bradford and Lady Mabel Bridgeman
- Earl Fortescue
- the Countess of Cork and Lady Isabel Boyle
- the Countess of Lathom and the Ladies Wilbraham (2)
- the Countess of Airlie and Lady Griselda Ogilvy
- the Earl of Sefton
- the Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Margaret Cecil
- Earl and Countess Beauchamp
- the Earl of Ducie and Misses Oakley (2)
- Earl and Countess Waldegrave
- the Countess of Galloway
- the Earl and Countess of Mar
- Elizabeth Countess of Harrington
- Countess De-La-Warr
- Earl Stanhope
- the Earl of Dalhousie
- the Countess of Lytton and Lady Betty Lytton
- Viscountess Strangford
- the Dowager Viscountess Canterbury
- Viscountess Bury and the Hon. Misses Keppel (2)
- Lord Gerard
- Lord and Lady Auckland
- Lord and Lady Arthur Russell
- Lord Sudeley
- Lady Abercromby
- Lord and Lady Alexander Russell
- Lady Lucy Hicks Beach and Lady Frances Fortescue
- Hon. Lady Cotterell and Miss Cotterell
- Lady Antrobus and Miss F. Antrobus
- Hon. Lady Biddulph
- Lady Fanny Marjoribanks
- Lady Henry Somerset
- Lady Boston and Hon. Miss Irby
- Lady Brassey and Miss Brassey
- Field-Marshal Lord Strathnairn
- Lady Francis Gordon and Miss Gordon
- Lady Georgiana Peel and Miss Peel
- Lady Elizabeth Romilly and Miss Romilly
- Lady Hermione Graham and Miss Graham
- Lady Maria Ponsonby and Miss Ponsonby
- Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Mr. Burdett-Coutts
- Lady Elizabeth Biddulph and Misses Biddulph (2)
- the Right Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Elliot and Miss Elliot
- Hon. Miss Henniker
- Hon. Kenneth Howard
- Captain the Hon. Randolph Stewart
- Hon. Eric Barrington and Miss Dallas Yorke
- Hon. Mr. Hastings
- Hon. Gilbert Hastings
- Hon. Mrs. William Lowther and Misses Lowther (2)
- Hon. Mrs. Hallyburton Campbell
- Captain the Hon. E. Dawson
- Hon. Ashley and Mrs. Ponsonby
- Hon. F. Hanbury-Tracy, M.P., and Mrs. Hanbury-Tracy
- the Prime Minister and Mrs. Gladstone
- the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Erskine May and Miss Laughton
- General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Ponsonby and Miss Ponsonby
- the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, M.P., and Miss Childers
- Sir John and Lady Burgoyne
- Sir Francis Deny
- Sir William Rose
- Sir Philip and Lady Pauncefote Duncombe and Miss Duncombe
- Colonel Sir R. and Hon. Lady Loyd-Lindsay
- General Sir Francis and Lady Seymour
- Sir John and Lady Lubbock
- Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Mr. and Lady Selina Hervey
- Mr. and Lady Margaret Graham
- General Higginson, C.B., and Miss Higginson
- Colonel and Mrs. Malet
- General and Hon. Mrs. Cecil Ives
- Colonel and Mrs. Haygarth
- Colonel Arthur Collins
- the Dean of Westminster and Mrs. Bradley and Miss Bradley
- Mr. Herbert Malet
- Mr. Arthur Malet
- Mr. Francis Stephens
- Mr. and Mrs. Warre Malet and Miss E. Warre Malet
- Mr. Cosmo Romilly
- Mr. Algernon Turnor
- Mr. Owen Morshead
- Mr. and Miss Biddulph
- Mr. Ralli, M.P., and Miss Ralli
- Mr. Henry Clarke
- Mrs. and Miss Villiers
- Mr. George Russell, M.P., Mrs. Ward and Misses Ward (2)
- Mrs. Arthur Kennard
- Mrs. Peel and Miss Peel
- Mrs. Oakeley
- Mr. Austin Lee
- Mrs. and Miss Cavendish Bentinck
- Mr. and Mrs. Horace Seymour
- Mrs. and Miss Hervey
- Mr. Alfred Denison
- Mr. George Moreton
- Mr. Augustus Hare
- Mr. E. Hamilton
- Mr. and Miss Munro
- Mr. Conway Seymour
- Mr. Willoughby Maycock
- Mr. Henry Oppenheim
- Mr. R. Bagot
- Mr. C. Clifford, M.P.
- Misses Cotes (2)
- Mr. George Repton, M.P.
- Mr. and Mrs. Leeky
- Mr. C. Ford
- Mr. Fitzroy
- Mr. Long
- Mr. and Mrs. Spottiswoode and Miss Spottiswoode
- Mr. Biddulph
Questions and Notes
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- TDoB'sR "The Duchess of Bedford's Reception." Morning Post 18 March 1885, Wednesday: 3 [of 8], Col. 5A. The British Newspaper Archive. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18850318/013/0003 (accessed November 2014).