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  • Family name: Blois or MacNaghten Blois
  • Blois Baronet of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall (Baronetage of England)[1]
    • Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. (31 December 1888 – 18 March 1950)[2]

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

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Timeline

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1897 July 2, Sir Ralph Blois attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1898 April 30, Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois and Winifred Grace Kennard married.[3]

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

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Black-and-white photograph of a standing man in an historical military with over-the-knee boots, epaulettes and a sword
Sir Ralph Blois, 9th Bt. in costume as Jerome Buonaparte, King of Westphalia. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.
Old painting of a seated woman dressed in white with a veil and a man leaning on a pillar
Jérôme Bonaparte et Catherine de Wurtemberg

Sir Ralph Blois (at 593) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball dressed as Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia.[4]:p. 12, Col. 4b

Lafayette's portrait of "Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaghten, 9th Bt as Jerome Buonaparte, King of Westphalia" in costume is photogravure #220 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[5] The printing on the portrait says, "Sir Ralph Bart. as Jerome Buonaparte, King of Westphalia."[6]

The portrait (right) of Jérome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (1784–1860)[7] and Catharina of Württemberg, Queen of Westphalia (1783–1835)[8] is in the collections at the Chateau de Versailles. It was painted by François-Joseph Kinson between 1802–1839[9] but probably after 1810. In a similar portrait of this couple dated 1810, they look younger and she is wearing a different white dress, but Jérome Bonaparte reigned only from 1807–1813.[7] If Sir Ralph Blois was following Louisa, Duchess of Devonshire's rules, his costume was supposed to be dated to before 1820.

Demographics

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  • Nationality: English

Family

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  • Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. (21 November 1866 – 18 March 1950)[2]
  • Winifred Grace Kennard ( – 28 November 1963)[3]
  1. Iris Freda Blois (21 August 1899 – 11 August 1962)
  2. Sir Gervase Ralph Edmund Blois, 10th Bt. (6 June 1901 – 22 May 1968)
  3. Christian Frances Blois (21 October 1902 – 18 September 1998)
  4. Carol Edward John Blois ( 9 November 1906 – 9 September 1945)
  5. Flavia Ria Joan Blois (26 December 1914 – )

Notes and Questions

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Footnotes

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  1. ↑ "Blois baronets". Wikipedia. 2021-08-12. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blois_baronets&oldid=1038504861.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blois_baronets.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sir Ralph Barrrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-13. https://www.thepeerage.com/p16176.htm#i161754.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Winifred Grace Kennard." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-13. https://www.thepeerage.com/p16213.htm#i162129.
  4. ↑ "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12 [of 20], Cols. 1a–4c [of 6] The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
  5. ↑ "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
  6. ↑ "Sir Ralph Bart. as Jerome Buonaparte." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158583/Sir-Ralph-Barrett-Macnaghten-9th-Bt-as-Jerome-Buonaparte-King-of-Westphalia.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Jérôme Bonaparte". Wikipedia. 2021-11-08. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte&oldid=1054213200.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jérôme_Bonaparte.
  8. ↑ "Catharina of Württemberg". Wikipedia. 2021-10-22. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catharina_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg&oldid=1051201310.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharina_of_Württemberg.
  9. ↑ "Les collections – Château de Versailles". collections.chateauversailles.fr. Retrieved 2021-12-27. http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#6a5d0dc3-fd3b-43e5-9fee-226247397937.
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