Social Victorians/People/Alington

Also Known As

• Family name: Sturt
• Baron and Baroness Alington (U.K. peerage, 15 January 1876)
  • Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington of Crichel (15 January 1876 – 17 February 1904)
    • Augusta Bingham: Lady Alington of Crichel (15 January 1876 – 3 July 1888)
    • Evelyn Henrietta Leigh (10 February 1892 – 17 February 1904)
  • Humphrey Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington of Crichel (17 February 1904 – 30 July 1919)
    • Feodorowna Yorke (17 February 1904 – 27 June 1934; he died 30 July 1919)

Organizations

Humphrey Napier Sturt

• Member of Parliament for East Dorset (1891–1904)

Timeline

1883 June 25, Feodorowna Yorke and Humphrey Napier Sturt married.

1892 February 10, Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington of Crichel and Evelyn Henrietta Leigh married.

1892 April 30, Hon. Mildred Cecilia Harriet Sturt and Henry Arthur Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Evelyn Henrietta Leigh Sturt, Lady Alington attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. Humphrey Napier Sturt, M.P., and Hon. (Cecilia) Mildred H. Sturt also attended. (Evelyn, Lady Alington is #41 on the list of people who attended; Humphrey Sturt is #120.)

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Evelyn, Lady Alington in costume as Duchesse de Nevers, Dame de la Cour de S.M. Marguérite de Valois. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Evelyn, Lady Alington

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Evelyn, Lady Alington was dressed as the Duchesse de Nevers:

• "XVI. Century costume of cerise velvet with white satin front panel richly embroidered with silver and studded with pearls and rubies; the bodice had a stomacher of white satin, also embroidered with jewels, including diamonds, and the sleeves were slashed with white satin; high Medici collar of old lace. Ruby and diamond coronet and double necklace of the same."
• "the Duchesse de Nevers, a lady from the court of Marguerite de Valois."

Henry Bullingham's portrait of "Evelyn Henrietta (née Leigh), Lady Alington as Duchesse de Nevers, Dame de la Cour de S.M. Marguérite de Valois" in costume is photogravure #202 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lady Alington as Duchesse de Nevers, Dame de la Cour de S.M. Marguérite de Valois," with a Long S in Duchesse.

The Hon. Humphrey Sturt

Humphrey Sturt was also present, in the Quadrille of the Louis XV and Louis XVI dressed as an Abbé:

• "Abbé of the period of Louis XV., in black, with cut steel buttons."
• "The Hon. Humphrey Sturt was an Abbé of the Louis XV. period."
• "(Abbé, Louis XV. period), black with cut steel buttons."

Hon. Cecilia (Mildred Cecilia) H. Sturt

Their daughter Hon. Cecilia Sturt Cadogan, Viscountess Chelsea was also present and is treated on the page for that family.

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Residences

• Alington House, London

Family

• Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington (16 May 1825 – 17 February 1904)
• Augusta Bingham (7 February 1832 – 3 July 1888)

1. Humphrey Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington (20 August 1859 – 30 July 1919)
2. Winifred Selina Sturt (1868–1914)
3. Cecilia (Mildred Cecilia Harriet) Sturt (1869–1942)

• Evelyn Henrietta Leigh ( – 23 January 1939)

• Humphrey Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington (20 August 1859 – 30 July 1919)
• Feodorowna Yorke (1864 – 27 June 1934)

1. Diana Isabel Sturt (3 April 1884 – )
2. Sylvia Sturt (1886 – 1886)
3. Gerard Philip Montagu Napier Sturt (9 April 1893 – 11 November 1918)
4. Napier George Henry Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington of Crichel (1 November 1896 – 17 September 1940)
5. Hon. Lois Sturt (25 August 1900 – 18 September 1937)

• Hon. Cecilia (Mildred Cecilia Harriet) Sturt (1869–1942)
• Henry Arthur Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea (13 June 1868 – 2 July 1908)

1. Edward George John Humphrey, briefly Viscount Chelsea (1903–1910), a godson of Edward VII and George, Prince of Wales.
2. Sibyl Louise Beatrix (1893–1969)
3. Edith Mary Winifred (1895–1969)
4. Cynthia Hilda Evelyn (1896–1966)
5. Alexandra Mary (1900–1961)
6. Victoria Laura (1901–1991)

• Admiral of the Fleet The Honourable Sir Hedworth Lambton Meux (5 July 1856 – 20 September 1929)
• Charles William Augustus Montagu (23 November 1860 – 10 November 1939)

Questions and Notes

1. Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington is not listed as having attended the Duchess of Devonshire's ball; he would have been 72 years old. Evelyn Sturt, Lady Alington was there — a photograph exists; if she was 80 when she died, then she would have been born in c. 1860, so possibly about 40ish at the time of the ball.
2. Charles William Augustus Montagu was Hon. Mildred Cecilia Harriet Sturt's third husband; they did not marry until 1930 although they are in the same portrait in the Album (#209). She was Lady Chelsea in 1897.