Social Victorians/1886-03-09 Russian Embassy Reception
Appearance
Dinner and Reception at the Russian Embassy
[edit | edit source]Logistics
[edit | edit source]- 1886 March 9, Tuesday
- Hosted by the Russian Ambassador Baron Georges de Staal and Madame de Staal
- Russian Embassy on Chesham Place
Dinner
[edit | edit source]Who Was Present
[edit | edit source]- The Duchess of Edinburgh
- Earl and Countess Spencer
- the Earl of Rosebery
- the Earl of Kenmare
- the Earl and Countess of Cork
- the Earl of Northbrook and Lady Emma Baring
- Lady Isabel Boyle
- Count and Countess d'Aubigny
- M. Hengel-müller
- Lord Gerard
- Lord Rothschild
- General Sir Francis Seymour
- Sir Philip Currie
- Mr. and Lady Selina Hervey, and Miss Bidwell
- Count N. Adlerberg and M. Bouténeff, Secretaries of the Embassy
Present as an Attendant
[edit | edit source]In attendance on the Duchess of Edinburgh
- Lady Emma Osborne
Reception
[edit | edit source]Who Was Present
[edit | edit source]- the Sultan of Johore and suite
Corps Diplomatique
[edit | edit source]- The Turkish Ambassador
- the German Ambassador and Countess Hatzfeldt
- the Italian Ambassador
- Madame Waddington
- the Swedish Minister
- the Netherlands Minister
- the Belgian Minister
- the Chinese Minister and Marchioness Tseng
- the Japanese Minister and Madame Kawase
- the Brazilian Minister and Baroness de Penedo
- the Greek Minister
- the Persian Minister
- the Roumanian Minister and Princess Ghica
- the Danish Minister
- the Portuguese Minister
- the United States Minister
- Count Pourtales
- Baron Plessen
- M. G. J. de Osme
- Morel Bey
- Mikayl Khan
- Baroness de Brienen and Madlle. de Brienen
- Count and Countess Bentinck
- Countess Königsmark
- Mr. Ohyama
- Rev. Eugene and Mrs. Smirnoff
- Mr. and Mrs. Schlesinger and Miss Schlesinger
- Madlle. Heim
- Commander and Mrs. Chadwick
- Baron and Baroness de Barreto
- Rev. Eugene Soloviev
- Vicomte de St. Genys
- M. J. F. du Bose and Madlle. du Bose
- M. Gosch
- Madame d'Arcos
- M. Adelborg
- M. Bapst
- Count, Kinsky
- &c.
General Company
[edit | edit source]- the Duchess of Bedford and the Marchioness of Tavistock
- the Duchess of Leeds and Lady Harriet Godolphin Osborne
- Julia Marchioness of Tweeddale
- the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford
- the Earl and Countess of Iddesleigh
- the Earl of Morley
- the Dowager Countess of Airlie and Lady Griselda Ogilvy
- the Countess of Dunraven
- the Countess of Malmesbury
- Julia Countess of Jersey and Mr. Brandling
- Viscountess Midleton and Hon. Albinia Brodrick
- Viscountess Curzon
- Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill
- Lord and Lady Colville and Hon. Miss Colville
- Lord and Lady Sudeley
- Lady Margaret Browne
- Lord Alcester
- Lady Randolph Churchill
- Lady Sandhurst and Lady Alice Gore
- Lord and Lady Charles Beresford
- Lady Howard de Walden
- Lord Belmont
- Lord and Lady Cremorne
- Lord and Lady Esher
- Hon. Lady Cotterell and Miss Cotterell
- Lady Goldsmid
- Lady Abercromby
- Lady Harcourt
- Lady Cross and Misses Cross (2)
- Lady Tweedmouth
- Lady Sykes
- Lady Henry Gordon-Lennox
- Lady Conyers and Hon. Miss Lane Fox
- Lord Sherborne
- Hon. Lady Campbell
- Lady Elizabeth Romilly and Miss Romilly
- Lady and Miss Antrobus
- Lady Hothfield and Miss Stracey
- Lady Walter Scott and Miss Evelyn Scott
- Lady Walter Campbell
- Lord Oranmore and Hon Misses Browne Guthrie
- the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
- Colonel Hon. Henry Byng and Miss Byng
- Hon. Henry Stonor
- Captain Hon. H. Monson
- Colonel Hon. William and Mrs. Colville and Miss Colville
- Hon. Sir Henry Ponsonby and Miss Ponsonby
- the Right Hon. Sir Henry Elliot
- Hon. Mrs. William Lowther
- the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Erskine May and Miss Laughton
- Hon. Francis Villiers
- Hon. Mrs. Henry Edwardes
- the Solicitor-General and Lady Davey and Miss Davey
- Colonel and Lady Blanche Edwardes
- Sir Julian and Lady Pauncefote
- Sir Edmund and Lady Lechmere
- Sir Algernon Borthwick
- General Sir Daniel and Lady Lysons
- Sir Maurice and Lady Fitzgerald
- Sir Arthur Sullivan and Lady Sullivan (?)
- Sir Halliday and Lady Macartney
- Sir Oscar Clayton
- Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan
- Sir Robert Abercromby
- Sir James Carmichael
- Sir Arthur Hayter
- Sir Villiers Lister and Miss Lister
- Sir A. Savile Lumley
- Sir Frederick Leighton
- Sir Rivers Wilson
- Sir E. Hertslett
- General Morris
- General and Miss Duff
- Colonel H. M. Hozier
- Colonel Stephens
- Colonel Arthur Collins
- Major and Mrs. Bigge
- Captain St. John Mildmay
- Captain and Mrs. E. Mildmay
- Captain Shaw
- Mr. and Mrs. Howard Vincent
- Dr. Rolfe
- Mr. Shaw Lefevre
- Mrs. Dudley Ward
- Mrs. Leigh
- Mrs. Mundella
- Mr. John Romilly
- Mrs. and Miss Farquhar
- Mr. Alfred Farquhar
- Mr. Francis Stephens
- Mr. Harcourt
- Mr. and Mrs. W. Langdale
- Mr. George Greville
- Mrs. Douglas Murray
- Mrs. Osborne Morgan
- Mr. Austin Lee
- Mr. Combe Tennant
- Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Lane
- Mr. Saunderson
- Mr. Townley
- Mrs. Hugh Wyndham and Miss Wyndham
- Mrs. and Miss Mello
- Mr. and Mrs. Robertson
- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Synge
- Madame de Bunsen
- Mr. and Mrs. Surtees
- Mr. and Mrs. James Stern
- Mrs. Bischoffsheim
- Mrs. Edwards
- Mr. Mitford
- Mrs. Washington Hibbert
- Mrs. and Miss Tennant
- Mrs. and Miss Higgins
- Mrs. and Miss Singleton
- Mr. W. Gillett
- Mr. W. Jolliffe
- Mr. Curzon
- Mr. Dallison
- Mr. Moreton Frewen
- Mr. Edward Hamilton
- Mr. Massey Shaw
- Mr. Charles Jerningham
- Mr. Fellowes
- Mr. and Mrs. Woodford
- Mr. and Mrs. Toler
- Mr. Hamilton Aïde
- Mrs. and Miss Romain
- Mr. and Mrs. Baldock
- Mr. Petre
- Mrs. and Miss Lindsay Antrobus
- Mr. and Mrs. Post
- Mr. Henry Oppenheim
- Mrs. Cholmondeley
- Mr. Edgar Vincent
- Mrs. Ronalds, Fanny Ronalds
- Mr. and Mrs. George Forbes
- Mrs. Beckett Denison and Miss Leslie
- Mrs. Richardson
- Mr. Bennett
- Mr. Thorndyke Rice
- Mr. and Mrs. Staniforth and Miss Staniforth
- Mrs. Edmund Vaughan
Questions and Notes
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- CCTRE "Court Circular: The Russian Embassy." Morning Post 10 March 1886, Wednesay: 5 [of 8], Col. 7A. The British Newspaper Archive. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18860310/065/0005 (accessed November 2014).