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  • Family name: Bourke [pronounced burk][1]
  • The Hon. Algernon Bourke
  • Mrs. Guendoline Bourke
  • Lady Florence Bourke
  • See also the page for the Earl of Mayo, the Hon. Algernon Bourke's father.

Overview

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Although the Hon. Algernon Henry Bourke was born in Dublin in 1854 and came from a family whose title is in the Peerage of Ireland,[2] he seems to have spent much of his adult life generally in England and especially in London.

Mrs. Guendoline Bourke was a noted horsewoman and an excellent shot, exhibited at dog shows successfully and was "an appreciative listener to good music."[3] She was reported as attending many social events without her husband, usually with a quick description of what she wore.

The Hon. Algernon Bourke and Mr. Algernon Bourke, depending on the newspaper article, were the same person. Calling him Mr. Bourke in the newspapers, especially when considered as a businessman or (potential) member of Parliament, does not rule out the son of an earl, who would normally be accorded the honorific of Honorable.

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

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Algernon Bourke

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  • Marcus Henry Milner, "one of the zealous assistants of that well-known firm of stockbrokers, Messrs. Bourke and Sandys"[4]
  • Caroline, Duchess of Montrose — her "legal advisor" on the day of her marriage to Marcus Henry Milner[5]

Guendoline Bourke

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  • Lord and Lady Alington, Belvedere House, Scarborough

Organizations

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Guendoline Bourke

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Algernon Bourke

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  • Eton
  • Cambridge University, Trinity College, 1873, Michaelmas term[7]
  • Conservative Party
  • 1879: Appointed a Poor Law Inspector in Ireland, Relief of Distress Act
  • 1885: Office of the 7th Surrey Rifles Regiment[8]
  • Special Correspondent of The Times for the Zulu War, accompanying Lord Chelmsford
  • Head, Messrs. Bourke and Sandys, "that well-known firm of stockbrokers"[4] ( – 1901 [at least])
  • White's gentleman's club, St. James's,[9] Manager (1897)[10]
  • Willis's Rooms

    ... the Hon. Algernon Burke [sic], son of the 6th Earl of Mayo, has turned the place into a smart restaurant where choice dinners are served and eaten while a stringed band discourses music. Willis's Rooms are now the favourite dining place for ladies who have no club of their own, or for gentlemen who are debarred by rules from inviting ladies to one of their own clubs. The same gentleman runs a hotel in Brighton, and has promoted several clubs. He has a special faculty for organising places of the kind, without which such projects end in failure.[11]

Boards of Directors

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  • 1883: One of the directors, the Franco-English Tunisian Esparto Fibre Supply Company, Ltd.[12]
  • 1891: One of the founders, the Discount Banking Company, Ltd., which says Algernon Bourke is a director of District Messenger Services and News Company, Ltd.[13]
  • 1894: One of the directors, the Frozen Lake, Ltd., with Admiral Maxse, Lord Marcus Beresford, Hwfa Williams[14]

Committees

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  • Member, Men's Committee of the Prince's Skating Club, which also included Lord Edward Cecil, Lord Redesdale, Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, Sir Edgar Vincent, Sir William Hart Dyke, and Mr. W. H. Grenfell[6] (1902, at least)
  • The Sala Memorial Fund, member of the committee (from 25 March 1896)
  • Member of an "influential committee" headed by the Lord Mayor "to restore salmon to the Thames" (June 1899)[15]

Timeline

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1872 February 8, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo was assassinated while inspecting a "convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands ... by Sher Ali Afridi, a former Afghan soldier."[16] The Hon. Algernon's brother Dermot became the 7th Earl at 19 years old.

1876 November 24, Friday, the Hon. Algernon Bourke was one of 6 men (2 students, one of whom was Bourke; 2 doctors; a tutor and another man) from Cambridge who gave evidence as witnesses in an inquest about the death from falling off a horse of a student.[17]

1884 May 3, Saturday, the "Rochester Conservatives" announced that they would "bring forward the Hon. Algernon Bourke, brother of Lord Mayo, as their second candidate,"[18] but because he could not be the first candidate, Bourke declined.[19]

1884 June 18, Wednesday, Mr. Algernon Bourke was on a committee to watch a Mr. Bishop's "thought-reading" experiment, which was based on a challenge by Henry Labourchere made the year before. This "experiment" took place before a fashionable audience.

1885 October 3, Saturday, the Hon. Algernon Bourke was named as the Conservative candidate for Clapham in the Battersea and Clapham borough after the Redistribution Bill determined the electoral districts for South London.[20] The Liberal candidate, who won, was Mr. J. F. Moulton.

1886 July 27, Tuesday, Algernon Bourke attended a service honoring a memorial at St. Paul's for his father, who had been assassinated.[21]

1886 September 2, Thursday, Mr. Algernon Bourke was part of a group of mostly aristocratic men taking part in a "trial-rehearsal" as part of Augustus Harris's production A Run of Luck, about sports.

1886 October 2, Saturday, the Duke of Beaufort and the Hon. Algernon Bourke arrived in Yougal: "His grace has taken a residence at Lismore for a few weeks, to enjoy some salmon fishing on the Blackwater before the close of the season."[22]

1887 December 15, Hon. Algernon Bourke and Guendoline Stanley were married at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, by Bourke's uncle the Hon. and Rev. George Bourke. Only family members attended because of "the recent death of a near relative of the bride."[23]

1888 July 26, Caroline Graham Stirling-Crawford (known as Mr. Manton for her horse-breeding and -racing operations) and Marcus Henry Milner married.[24] According to the Nottingham Evening Post of 31 July 1888,

LONDON GOSSIP.

(From the World.)

The marriage of "Mr. Manton" was the surprise as well the sensation of last week. Although some wise people noticed a certain amount of youthful ardour in the attentions paid by Mr. Marcus Henry Milner to Caroline Duchess of Montrose at Mrs. Oppenheim's ball, nobody was prepared for the sudden dénouement; and it were not for the accidental and unseen presence a well-known musical amateur who had received permission to practice on the organ, the ceremony performed at half-past nine on Thursday morning at St. Andrew's, Fulham, by the Rev. Mr. Propert, would possibly have remained a secret for some time to come. Although the evergreen Duchess attains this year the limit of age prescribed the Psalmist, the bridegroom was only born in 1864. Mr. "Harry" Milner (familiarly known in the City as "Millions") was one of the zealous assistants of that well-known firm of stockbrokers, Messrs. Bourke and Sandys, and Mr. Algernon Bourke, the head of the house (who, of course, takes a fatherly interest in the match) went down to Fulham to give away the Duchess. The ceremony was followed by a partie carrée luncheon at the Bristol, and the honeymoon began with a visit to the Jockey Club box at Sandown. Mr. Milner and the Duchess of Montrose have now gone to Newmarket. The marriage causes a curious reshuffling of the cards of affinity. Mr. Milner is now the stepfather of the Duke of Montrose, his senior by twelve years; he is also the father-in-law of Lord Greville, Mr. Murray of Polnaise, and Lord Breadalbane.[4]

1888 December 1st week, according to "Society Gossip" from the World, the Hon. Algernon Bourke was suffering from malaria, presumably which he caught when he was in South Africa:

I am sorry to hear that Mr. Algernon Bourke, who married Miss Sloane-Stanley a short time ago, has been very dangerously ill. Certain complications followed an attack of malarian fever, and last week his mother, the Dowager Lady Mayo, and his brother, Lord Mayo, were hastily summoned to Brighton. Since then a change for the better has taken place, and he is now out of danger.[25]

1889 – 1899 January 1, the Hon. Algernon Bourke was "proprietor" of White's Club, St. James's Street.[26]

1889 June 8, Saturday, the Hon. Algernon Bourke contributed some art he owned to the collection of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours' exhibition of "the works of the 'English Humourists in Art.'"

1892, the Hon. Algernon Bourke privately published his The History of White's, the exclusive gentleman's club.

1893 February 11, Tuesday, Algernon Bourke opened Willis's Restaurant:

Mr. Algernon Bourke has in his time done many things, and has generally done them well. His recently published history of White's Club is now a standard work. White's Club itself was a few years ago in its agony when Mr. Bourke stepped in and gave it a renewed lease of life. Under Mr. Bourke's auspices "Willis's Restaurant" opened its doors to the public on Tuesday last in a portion of the premises formerly so well known as Willis's Rooms. This new venture is to rival the Amphitryon in the matter of cuisine and wines; but it is not, like the Amphitryon, a club, but open to the public generally. Besides the restaurant proper, there are several cabinets particuliers, and these are decorated with the very best of taste, and contain some fine portraits of the Georges.[27]

1893 April 1, Saturday, Algernon Bourke published a letter to the editor of the Times, reprinted in the Kildare Observer, arguing against Gladstone's Home Rule bill on the grounds that Ireland would not be able to take out a loan on its own behalf because of its obligations to the U.K., including what was called its share of the national debt.[28]

1893 November 30, Thursday, with Sir Walter Gilbey the Hon. Algernon Bourke "assisted" in "forming [a] collection" of engravings by George Morland that was exhibited at Messrs. J. and W. Vokins’s, Great Portland-street.[29]

1895 February 23, Saturday, the Hon. Algernon Bourke attended the fashionable wedding of Laurence Currie and Edith Sibyl Mary Finch.

1895 August 24, Saturday, "Marmaduke" in the Graphic says that Algernon Bourke "opened a cyclists' club in Chelsea."[30]

1895 October, the Hon. Algernon Bourke opened the Prince's ice-skating rink for the season.

1896 June 29, Monday, Algernon Bourke published a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph:

To the Editor of “The Daily Telegraph.”

Sir — Permit me to make my bow to the public. I am the manager of the Summer Club, which on two occasions bas been the subject of Ministerial interpellation in Parliament. The Summer Club is a small combination, which conceived the idea of attempting to make life more pleasant in London by organising breakfast, luncheon, and teas in Kensington Gardens for its members. This appears to have given offence in some way to Dr. Tanner, with the result that the catering arrangements of the club are now "by order" thrown open to the public. No one is more pleased than I am at the result of the doctor's intervention, for it shows that the idea the Summer Club had of using the parks for something more than mere right of way bas been favourably received. In order, however, that the great British public may not be disappointed, should they all come to lunch at once, I think it necessary to explain that the kitchen, which by courtesy of the lessee of the kiosk our cook was permitted to use, is only 10ft by 5ft; it has also to serve as a scullery and pantry, and the larder, from which our luxurious viands are drawn, is a four-wheeled cab, which comes up every day with the food and returns after lunch with the scraps. Nevertheless, the Summer Club says to the British public — What we have we will share with you, though it don't amount to very much — I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

ALGERNON BOURKE.

White's Club, June 27[31]

1896 July 4, Saturday, "Marmaduke" in the Graphic took Bourke's side on the Summer Club in Kensington Park:

Most of us have noticed that if we read in the newspapers the account of some matter which we are personally acquainted with the account will generally contain several errors. I have also noticed that when a question is asked in the House of Commons regarding some matter about which I know all the facts the question and the official answer to it frequently contain serious errors. Last week Mr. Akers-Douglas was asked in the House to explain how it was that Mr. Algernon Bourke obtained permission to open the "Summer Club" in Kensington Gardens, and he was questioned upon other particulars connected with the same matter. Both the questions and the official reply showed considerable ignorance of the facts. There has been from time immemorial a refreshment kiosk in Kensington Gardens. Mr. Bourke obtained from the tenant of this permission to use the kitchen for the benefit of the "Summer Club," and to supply the members of the latter with refreshments. It was a purely commercial transaction. Mr. Bourke then established some wicker seats, a few tables, a tent, and a small hut upon a lawn in the neighbourhood of the kiosk. To do this he must have obtained the permission of Mr. Akers-Douglas, as obviously he would otherwise have been immediately ordered to remove them. Mr. Akers-Douglas equally obviously would not have given his sanction unless he had been previously informed of the objects which Mr. Bourke had in view — to wit, that the latter intended to establish a club there. That being the case, it is difficult to understand for what reason Mr. Akers-Douglas has now decided that any member of the public can use the chairs, tables, and tent belonging to the "Summer Club," can insist upon the club servants attending upon him, and can compel them to supply him with refreshments. Mr. Akers-Douglas should have thought of the consequences before he granted the permission.[32]

1896 August 10, Monday, the Morning Leader reported that the Hon. Algernon Bourke, for the Foreign Office, received Li Hung Chang at St. Paul's:

At St. Paul's Li Hung was received by Field-Marshal Simmons, Colonel Lane, the Hon. Algernon Bourke, of the Foreign Office (who made the necessary arrangements for the visit) and Canon Newbolt, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter. A crowd greeted Li with a cheer as he drove up in Lord Lonsdale’s striking equipage, and his Excellency was carried up the steps in an invalid chair by two stalwart constables. He walked through the centre door with his suite, and was immediately conducted by Canon Newbolt to General Gordon’s tomb in the north aisle, where a detachment of boys from the Gordon Home received him as a guard of honor.

Li inspected the monument with marked interest, and drew the attention of his suite to the remarkable likeness to the dead hero. He laid a handsome wreath of royal purple asters, lilies, maidenhair fern, and laurel, tied with a broad band of purple silk, on the tomb.

The visit was not one of inspection of the building, but on passing the middle aisle the interpreter called the attention of His Excellency to the exquisite architecture and decoration of the chancel. Li shook hands in hearty English fashion with Canon Newbolt and the other gentlemen who had received him, and, assisted by his two sons, walked down the steps to his carriage. He returned with his suite to Carlton House-terrace by way of St. Paul’s Churchyard, Cannon-st., Queen Victoria-st., and the Embankment.[33]

1896 August 19, Wednesday, the Edinburgh Evening News reported on the catering that White's Club and Mr Algernon Bourke arranged for the visiting Li Hung Chang:

It is probably not generally known (says the "Chef") that Mr Algernon Bourke, manager of White's Club, London, has undertaken to the whole of the catering for our illustrious visitor front the Flowery Land. Li Hung Chang has five native cooks in his retinue, and the greatest good fellowship exists between them and their English confreres, although considerable difficulty is experienced in conversation in understanding one another's meaning. There are between 40 and and 50 to cater for daily, besides a staff about 30; that Mr Lemaire finds his time fully occupied. The dishes for his Excellency are varied and miscellaneous, and from 14 to 20 courses are served at each meal. The bills of fare contain such items as bird's-nest soup, pigs' kidneys stewed in cream, boiled ducks and green ginger, sharks' fins, shrinips and prawns stewed with leeks and muscatel grapes, fat pork saute with peas and kidney beans. The meal usually winds with fruit and sponge cake, and freshly-picked green tea as liqueur.[34]

1896 November 6, Friday, Algernon Bourke was on the committee for the Prince's Club ice-skating rink, which opened on this day.

1896 November 25, Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. Algernon Bouke attended Lord and Lady Burton's party for Derby Day.

1896 December 4, Friday, the Orleans Club at Brighton was robbed:

The old building of the Orleans Club at Brighton, which opens its new club house at 33, Brunswick-terrace to-day, was the scene of a very ingenious burglary during the small hours of yesterday morning. The greater portion of the club property had already been removed to the new premises, but Mr Algernon Bourke, his private secretary, and some of the officials of the club, still occupied bed-rooms at the house in the King’s-road. The corner shop of the street front is occupied by Mr. Marx, a jeweller in a large way of business, and upon his manager arriving at nine o'clock he discovered that the place had been entered through hole in the ceiling, and a great part of a very valuable stock of jewelry extracted. An examination of the morning rooms of the club, which runs over Mr. Marx's establishment reveal a singularly neat specimen of the burglar's art. A piece of the flooring about 15in square had been removed by a series of holes bored side by side with a centre-bit, at a spot where access to the lofty shop was rendered easy by a tall showcase which stood convemently near. A massive iron girder had been avoided by a quarter of an inch, and this circumstance and the general finish of the operation point to an artist in his profession, who had acquired an intimate knowledge of the premises. The club doors were all found locked yesterday morning, and the means of egress adopted by the thief are at present a mystery.[35]

1896 December 10, Thursday, Guendoline Bourke was present to help staff a stall at the Irish Industries Exhibition and Sale, Brighton.

1897 July 2, Friday, the Hon. A. and Mrs. A. Bourke and Mr. and Mrs. Bourke attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1897 July 11–16, week of, a dog of Guendoline Bourke's won a prize at the Ladies' Kennel Association show in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Regent's Park.

23 July 1897 — or 30 July 1897 – Friday, Guendonline Bourke attended Lady Burton's party at Chesterfield House.

Far the prettiest women in the room were Lady Henry Bentinck (who looked perfectly lovely in pale yellow, with a Iong blue sash; and Mrs. Algernon Bourke, who was as smart as possible in pink, with pink and white ruchings on her sleeves and a tall pink feather in her hair.[36]

1897 October 30, Saturday, Black and White published J.P.B.'s "The Case of Mrs. Elliott,"[37] an odd short short story in which the Honourable Algernon Bourke Herriott is "rude to Mrs. Elliott,"[37]:Col. 2b presumably having proposed that they have sexual relations while her husband is out. J.P.B. links to the biographical Algernon Bourke's career in the stock market in the description of Mrs. Christine Elliott not even simulating interest in her husband's bicycling: "a soul is a grievous burthen for a stockbroker's wife,"[37]:Col. 2a suggesting that Mr. Elliott rather than Algernon Bourke Herriott is the stockbroker. The Hon. Algy

was a senior member of several junior clubs. A woman had dubbed him once "a rip with a taste for verses." The description was severe, but not unwarranted. His was a pretty pagan sensualism, though, singing from a wine palate to Church music. For the rest, he had just imagination enough to despise mediocrity.[37]:Col. 2a

1898 January 5, Wednesday, the Irish Independent reported that "Mr Algernon Bourke, the aristocratic stock broker ... was mainly responsible for the living pictures at the Blenheim Palace entertainment.[38]

1899 January 10, Tuesday, the Brighton Championship Dog Show opened:

Princess of Wales a Winner at the Ladies’ Kennel Club Show.

[Exclusive to "The Leader.")

The Brighton Championship Dog Show opened in the Dome and Corn Exchange yesterday, and was very well patronised by visitors and exhibitors. Among the latter was H.R.H. the Princess of Wales, who did very well; and others included Princess Sophie Duleep Singh, Countess De Grey, Sir Edgar Boehm, the Hon Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Lady Cathcart, Lady Reid, Mr. Shirley (chairman of the Kennel Club), and the Rev. Hans Hamiiton (president of the Kennel Club).

The entry of bloodhounds is one of the best seen for some time; the Great Danes are another stronyg lot; deerhounds are a fine entry, all good dogs, and most of the best kennels represented; borzois are another very stylish lot. The bigger dogs are, as usual, in the Corn Exchange and the "toy" dogs in the Dome. To everyone's satsfaction the Princess of Wales carried off two first prizes with Alex in the borzois class.[39]

1899 January 11, Wednesday, Guendoline Bourke attended a luncheon Stanfield-hall, home of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Montogomery, for Princess Henry of Battenberg, that also included the Countess of Dudley (sister of Mrs. Montgomery), General Oliphant, and the Mayor and Mayoress of Romsey.

1899 February 7, Tuesday, Guendoline Bourke was a member of the very high-ranking committee organizing a ball at the Hotel Cecil on 7 February 1899.

1899 June 1, Thursday, the Hon. Algernon and Guendoline Bourke attended the wedding of her brother, Sloane Stanley and Countess Cairns at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton.[40]

1899 July 1, Saturday, Algernon Bourke attended a meeting in London at the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor House about preserving Killarney as part of the National Trust and seems to have been acting for someone who wanted to purchase the Muckross Estate.

1899 October 19, Thursday, the Hon. Algernon Bourke had a bankruptcy hearing:

The public examination of the Hon. Algernon Bourke was held before Mr Registrar Giffard yesterday, at the London Bankruptcy Court. The debtor, described as proprietor of a St. James's-street club, furnished a statement of affairs showing unsecured debts £13,694 and debts fully secured £12,800, with assets which are estimated at £4,489 [?]. He stated, in reply to the Official Receiver, that he was formerly a member of the Stock Exchange, but had nothing to do with the firm of which he was a member during the last ten years. He severed his connection with the firm in May last, and believed he was indebted to them to the extent of £2,000 or £3,000. He repudiated a claim which they now made for £37,300. In 1889 he became proprietor of White's Club, St. James's-street, and carried it on until January 1st last, when he transferred it to a company called Recreations, Limited. One of the objects of the company was to raise money on debentures. The examination was formally adjourned.[26]

1899 November 8, Wednesday, the Hon. Algernon Bourke's bankruptcy case came up again:

At Bankruptcy Court, yesterday, the case the Hon. Algernon Bourke again came on for hearing before Mr. Registrar Giffard, and the examination was concluded. The debtor has at various times been proprietor of White’s Club, St. James’s-street, and the Orleans’ Club, Brighton, and also of Willis's Restaurant, King-street, St. James's. He attributed his failure to losses sustained by the conversion of White’s Club and the Orleans' Club into limited companies, to the payment of excessive Interest on borrowed money, and other causes. The liabilities amount to £26,590, of which £13,694 are stated to be unsecured, and assets £4,409.[41]

1899 December 23, Saturday, "Mr. Algernon Bourke has departed for a tour in Africa, being at present the guest of his brother in Tunis."[42]

1900 February 15, Thursday, Miss Daphne Bourke, the four-year-old daughter of the Hon. Algernon and Mrs. Bourke was a bridesmaid in the wedding of Enid Wilson and the Earl of Chesterfield, so presumably her parents were present as well.[43]

1900 September 16, the Hon. Algernon Bourke became the heir presumptive to the Earldom of Mayo when his older brother Captain Hon. Sir Maurice Archibald Bourke died.

1900 October 06, Saturday, the Weekly Irish Times says that Mr. Algernon Bourke, now heir presumptive to the earldom of Mayo, "has been for some months lately staying with Mr. Terence Bourke in Morocco."[44]

1901 May 30, Thursday, the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke attended the fashionable Ladies' Kennel Association Dog Show at the Botanic Garden.

1901 July 4, Thursday, Guendoline and Daphne Bourke attended a children's party hosted by the Countess of Yarborough:

The Countess of Yarborough gave a charming children's party on Thursday (4th) afternoon at her beautiful house in Arlington Street. The spacious ballroom was quite filled with little guests and their mothers. Each little guest received a lovely present from their kind hostess. The Duchess of Beaufort, in grey, and with a large black picture hat, brought her two lovely baby girls, Lady Blanche and Lady Diana Somerset, both in filmy cream [Col. 2b–3a] lace frocks. Lady Gertrude Corbett came with her children, and Ellen Lady Inchiquin with hers. Lady Southampton, in black, with lovely gold embroideries on her bodice, brought her children, as also did Lady Heneage and Mr. and Lady Beatrice Kaye. Lady Blanche Conyngham, in écru lace, over silk, and small straw hat, was there; also Mrs. Smith Barry, in a lovely gown of black and white lace. The Countess of Kilmorey, in a smart grey and white muslin, brought little Lady Cynthia Needham, in white; Mrs. Arthur James, in black and white muslin; and the Countess of Powys, in mauve silk with much white lace; Lady Sassoon, in black and white foulard; Victoria Countess of Yarborough, came on from hearing Mdme. Réjane at Mrs. Wernher's party at Bath House; and there were also present Lord Henry Vane-Tempest, the Earl of Yarborough, Lady Naylor-Leyland's little boys; the pretty children of Lady Constance Combe, Lady Florence Astley and her children, and Lady Meysey Thompson (very smart in mauve and white muslin) with her children; also Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, in pale grey, with her pretty little girl.[45]

1901 July 20, Saturday, the Gentlewoman published the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke's portrait (identified with "Perthshire") in its 3rd series of "The Great County Sale at Earl's Court. Portraits of Stallholders."[46] Their daughter Daphne appears in the portrait as well.

1901 September 12, Thursday, Mrs. Guendoline Bourke's name is listed as Gwendolen Bourke, but the spelling is not what she objected to:

Mr. Underhill, the Conservative agent, mentioned to the Revising Barrister (Mr. William F. Webster) that the name of the Hon. Mrs. Gwendolen Bourke was on the list in respect of the house, 75, Gloucester-place. The lady had written to him to say that she was the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke and that she wished that name to appear on the register. In reply to the Revising Barrister, Mr. Underhill said that “Algernon” was the name the lady’s husband.

Mr. Cooke, the rate-collector, said that Mrs. Bourke had asked to be addressed Mrs. Algernon Bourke, but that the Town Clerk thought the address was not a correct one. The lady signed her cheques Gwendolen.”

Mr. Underhill said the agents frequently had indignant letters from ladies because they were not addressed by their husband’s Christian name.

The Revising Barrister — lf a lady gave me the name of Mrs. John Smith I should say I had not got the voter’s name. The name Gwendolen must remain.[47]

1902 September 4, Thursday, the Daily Express reported that "Mrs. Algernon Bourke is staying with Lord and Lady Alington at Scarborough."[48]

1902 October 24, Friday, the Hon. Algernon Bourke opened the Prince's ice-skating rink for the season, which he had been doing since 1895.

1902 October 31, Friday, the 7th opening of the Prince's Skating Club. Guendoline Bourke was on the Women's Committee and Algernon Bourke was on the Men's.

1902 December 9, Tuesday, Guendonline Bourke attended Lady Eva Wyndham-Quin's "at home," held at the Welch Industrial depot for the sale Welsh-made Christmas gifts and cards. Bourke wore "a fur coat and a black picture hat."[49]

1903 March 17, Tuesday, Guendoline Bourke staffed a booth at a sale of the Irish Industries Association on St. Patrick's Day with Lady Mayo, Georgina Lady Dudley and Miss Beresford. A number of other aristocratic women were also present at the sale in other booths, including Lady Londonderry and Lady Lucan.

1903 June 23, Tuesday, Guendoline and Daphne Bourke were invited to a children's party at Buckingham Palace for Prince Eddie's birthday.

1905 February 17, Friday, the Dundee Evening Post reported that Algernon Bourke "set up a shop in Venice for the sale of art treasures and old furniture."[50]

1905, last week of July, Guendoline Bourke and daughter Daphne Bourke — who was 10 years old — attended Lady Cadogan's children's party at Chelsea House. Daphne was "One of loveliest little girls present."[51]

1913 May 7, Wednesday, Guendoline Bourke presented her daughter Daphne Bourke at court:

Mrs. Algernon Bourke presented her daughter, and wore blue and gold broché with a gold lace train.[52]

The Pall Mall Gazette has a description of Daphne Bourke's dress, but what exactly "chiffon paniers" means in 1913 is not clear:

Court dressmakers appear to have surpassed all previous records in their efforts to make the dresses for to-night’s Court as beautiful as possible. Noticeable among these is the dainty presentation gown to be worn by Miss Bourke, who will be presented by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke. This has a skirt of soft white satin draped with chiffon paniers and a bodice veiled with chiffon and trimmed with diamanté and crystal embroidery. Miss Bourke’s train, gracefully hung from the shoulders, is of white satin lined with pale rose pink chiffon and embroidered with crystal and diamanté.[53]

1904 September 15, Thursday, according to what was at the time called the Irish Daily Independent and Nation, Algernon Bourke was living in Venice and not in the UK at this point:

Algernon Bourke, who usually lives in Venice, has spent some time in England during the present summer, and has now gone on a fishing expedition to Sweden, accompanied by his brother, Lord Mayo. Lady Mayo has been staying meanwhile in Ireland, and has had a visit from her mother, Lady Maria Ponsonby, who is a sister of Lend Obventry.[54]

1909 May 22, Saturday, Algernon Bourke appears to have been living in Pisa. A columnist for the Queen reported on the Royal School of Art Needlework:

Lady Leconfield [?] was there, also her sister-in-law, the Dowager Lady Mayo, only just back from her winter on the Continent, when she spent most of the time at Pisa, where her son Mr Algernon Bourke has also been staying. The latter is a great connoisseur as regards [art?] notably in what is really good in the way of old Italian sculpture and carving. He and his handsome wife have a place near to Putney, and this winter again Mr Bourke, as the result of his Italian travels, has been sending home such relics of the old Italian palace gardens as as stone and marble carved vases, garden seats, and what-not of the kind — not all for himself and his own gardens by any means, I fancy; but his friends, relying on his knowledge in such matters, get him when abroad to choose for [them?] the adornment of their English terraces and gardens.[55]

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

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According to both the Morning Post and the Times, the Hon. Algernon Bourke was among the Suite of Men in the "Oriental" procession at the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.[56][57] Based on the people they were dressed as, Guendonine Bourke was probably in this procession but it seems unlikely that Algernone Bourke was.

Black-and-white photograph of a standing woman richly dressed in an historical costume with a headdress and a very large fan
Hon. Guendoline Bourke as Salammbô. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Hon. Guendoline Bourke

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Highly stylized orange-and-yellow painting of a bare-chested woman with a man playing a harp at her feet
Alfons Mucha's 1896 Salammbô.

Lafayette's portrait (right) of "Guendoline Irene Emily Bourke (née Sloane-Stanley) as Salammbô" in costume is photogravure #128 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[58] The printing on the portrait says, "The Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke as Salammbo."[59]

Newspaper Accounts

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The Hon. Mrs. A. Bourke was dressed as

  • Salambo in the Oriental procession.[56][57]
  • "(Egyptian Princess), drapery gown of white and silver gauze, covered with embroidery of lotus flowers; the top of gown appliqué with old green satin embroidered blue turquoise and gold, studded rubies; train of old green broché."[60]:p. 40, Col. 3a
  • "Mrs. A. Bourke, as an Egyptian Princess, with the Salambo coiffure, wore a flowing gown of white and silver gauze covered with embroidery of lotus flowers. The top of the gown was ornamented with old green satin embroidered with blue turquoise and gold, and studded with rubies. The train was of old green broché with sides of orange and gold embroidery, and from the ceinture depended long bullion fringe and an embroidered ibis."[61]:p. 3, Col. 3b

Salammbô

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Salammbô is the eponymous protagonist in Gustave Flaubert's 1862 novel.[62] Ernest Reyer's opera Salammbô was based on Flaubert's novel and published in Paris in 1890 and performed in 1892[63] (both Modest Mussorgsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff had attempted but not completed operas based on the novel as well[62]). Alfons Mucha's 1896 lithograph of Salammbô was published in 1896, the year before the ball (above left).

Old colored drawing of an elegant elderly man dressed in a 19th-century tuxedo with a cloak, top hat and formal pointed shoes with bows, standing facing 1/4 to his right
Algy — Algernon Henry Bourke — by "Spy," Vanity Fair 20 January 1898

Hon. Algernon Bourke

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Black-and-white photograph of a man richly dressed in an historical costume sitting in a fireplace that does not have a fire and holding a tankard
Hon. Algernon Henry Bourke as Izaak Walton. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Lafayette's portrait (left) of "Hon. Algernon Henry Bourke as Izaak Walton" in costume is photogravure #129 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[58] The printing on the portrait says, "The Hon. Algernon Bourke as Izaak Walton."[64]

This portrait is amazing and unusual: Algernon Bourke is not using a photographer's set with theatrical flats and props, certainly not one used by anyone else at the ball itself. Isaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) wrote The Compleat Angler.[65] A cottage Walton lived in and willed to the people of Stafford was photographed in 1888, suggesting that its relationship to Walton was known in 1897, raising a question about whether Bourke could have used the fireplace in the cottage for his portrait. (This same cottage still exists, as the Isaak Walton Cottage museum.)

A caricature portrait (right) of the Hon. Algernon Bourke, called "Algy," by Leslie Ward ("Spy") was published in the 20 January 1898 issue of Vanity Fair as Number 702 in its "Men of the Day" series,[66] giving an indication of what he looked like out of costume.

Mr. and Mrs. Bourke

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The Times made a distinction between the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. A. Bourke and Mr. and Mrs. Bourke, including both in the article.[57] Occasionally this same article mentions the same people more than once in different contexts and parts of the article, so they may be the same couple. (See Notes and Question #2, below.)

Demographics

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  • Nationality: Anglo-Irish[67]
  • Occupation: journalist. 1895: restaurant, hotel and club owner and manager[68]

Residences

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  • Ireland: 1873: Palmerston House, Straffan, Co. Kildare.[7] Not Co. Mayo?
  • 1888–1891: 33 Cadogan Terrace, S.W., Kensington and Chelsea, a dwelling house[69]
  • 1894: 181 Pavilion Road, Kensington and Chelsea[70]
  • 1900: 181 Pavilion Road, Kensington and Chelsea[71]
  • 1904: Algernon Bourke was "usually liv[ing] in Venice"[54]
  • 1911: 1911 Fulham, London[2]
  • 20 Eaton Square, S.W. (in 1897)[72] (London home of the Earl of Mayo)

Family

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  • Hon. Algernon Henry Bourke (31 December 1854 – 7 April 1922)[73]
  • Guendoline Irene Emily Sloane-Stanley Bourke (c. 1869 – 30 December 1967)[74]
  1. Daphne Marjory Bourke (5 April 1895 – 22 May 1962)

Relations

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  • Hon. Algernon Henry Bourke (the 3rd son of the 6th Earl of Mayo) was the older brother of Lady Florence Bourke.[72]

Other Bourkes

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  • Hubert Edward Madden Bourke (after 1925, Bourke-Borrowes)[75]
  • Lady Eva Constance Aline Bourke, who married Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin on 7 July 1885;[76] he became 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl on 14 June 1926.

Writings, Memoirs, Biographies, Papers

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Writings

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  • Bourke, the Hon. Algernon. The History of White's. London: Algernon Bourke [privately published], 1892.
  • Bourke, the Hon. Algernon, ed., "with a brief Memoir." Correspondence of Mr Joseph Jekyll with His Sister-in-Law, Lady Gertrude Sloane Stanley, 1818–1838. John Murray, 1893.
  • Bourke, the Hon. Algernon, ed. Correspondence of Mr Joseph Jekyll. John Murray, 1894.

Papers

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  • Where are the papers for the Earl of Mayo family? Are Algernon Bourke's papers with them?

Notes and Questions

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  1. The portrait of Algernon Bourke in costume as Isaac Walton is really an amazing portrait with a very interesting setting, far more specific than any of the other Lafayette portraits of these people in their costumes. Where was it shot? Lafayette is given credit, but it's not one of his usual backdrops. If this portrait was taken the night of the ball, then this fireplace was in Devonshire House; if not, then whose fireplace is it?
  2. The Times lists Hon. A. Bourke (at 325) and Hon. Mrs. A. Bourke (at 236) as members of a the "Oriental" procession, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bourke (in the general list of attendees), and then a small distance down Mr. and Mrs. Bourke (now at 511 and 512, respectively). This last couple with no honorifics is also mentioned in the report in the London Evening Standard, which means the Hon. Mrs. A. Bourke, so the Times may have repeated the Bourkes, who otherwise are not obviously anyone recognizable. If they are not the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. A. Bourke, then they are unidentified. It seems likely that they are the same, however, as the newspapers were not perfectly consistent in naming people with their honorifics, even in a single story, especially a very long and detailed one in which people could be named more than once.
  3. Three slightly difficult-to-identify men were among the Suite of Men in the "Oriental" procession: Gordon Wood, Arthur B. Portman and Wilfred Wilson. The identification of Gordon Wood and Wilfred Wilson is high because of contemporary newspaper accounts. The Hon. Algernon Bourke, who was also in the Suite of Men, is not difficult to identify at all. Arthur Portman appears in a number of similar newspaper accounts, but none of them mentions his family of origin.
  4. The Peerage has no other Algernon Bourkes.
  5. The Hon Algernon Bourke is #235 on the list of people who were present; the Hon. Guendoline Bourke is #236; a Mr. Bourke is #703; a Mrs. Bourke is #704.

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ "Earl of Mayo". Wikipedia. 2024-05-07. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Earl_of_Mayo&oldid=1222668659.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Mayo.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 1911 England Census.
  3. ↑ "Vanity Fair." Lady of the House 15 June 1899, Thursday: 4 [of 44], Col. 2c [of 2]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004836/18990615/019/0004.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Metropolitan Notes." Nottingham Evening Post 31 July 1888, Tuesday: 4 [of 4], Col. 2a [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/18880731/025/0004.
  5. ↑ "Metropolitan Notes." Nottingham Evening Post 31 July 1888, Tuesday: 4 [of 4], Col. 1b [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/18880731/025/0004.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "What the 'World' Says." Northwich Guardian 01 November 1902, Saturday: 6 [of 8], Col. 8a [of 9]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001975/19021101/134/0006. Print title: The Guardian, p. 6.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cambridge University Alumni, 1261–1900. Via Ancestry.
  8. ↑ "7th Surrey Rifles." South London Press 08 August 1885, Saturday: 12 [of 16], Col. 4a [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000213/18850808/165/0012. Print p. 12.
  9. ↑ "White's". Wikipedia. 2024-10-09. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White's.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%27s.
  10. ↑ "Side Lights on Drinking." Waterford Standard 28 April 1897, Wednesday: 3 [of 4], Col. 7a [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001678/18970428/053/0003.
  11. ↑ "Lenten Dullness." Cheltenham Looker-On 23 March 1895, Saturday: 11 [of 24], Col. 2c [of 2]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000226/18950323/004/0011. Print p. 275.
  12. ↑ Money Market Review, 20 Jan 1883 (Vol 46): 124.
  13. ↑ "Public Company." Nottingham Journal 31 October 1891, Saturday: 4 [of 8], Col. 8a [of 8]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001896/18911031/099/0004. Print title: The Nottingham Daily Express, p. 4.
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  21. ↑ "Memorial to the Late Earl of Mayo." Northern Whig 28 July 1886, Wednesday: 6 [of 8], Col. 6b [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000434/18860728/143/0006. Print p. 6.
  22. ↑ "Chippenham." Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard 02 October 1886, Saturday: 8 [of 8], Col. 6a [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001955/18861002/142/0008. Print p. 8.
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  24. ↑ "Hon. Caroline Agnes Horsley-Beresford." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  25. ↑ "Society Gossip. What the World Says." Hampshire Advertiser 08 December 1888, Saturday: 2 [of 8], Col. 5b [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000495/18881208/037/0002. Print title: The Hampshire Advertiser County Newspaper; print p. 2.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 "The Hon. Algernon Bourke's Affairs." Eastern Morning News 19 October 1899, Thursday: 6 [of 8], Col. 7c [of7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001152/18991019/139/0006. Print p. 6.
  27. ↑ "Marmaduke." "Letter from the Linkman." Truth 20 April 1893, Thursday: 25 [of 56], Col. 1a [of 2]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002961/18930420/075/0025. Print p. 855.
  28. ↑ "Irish Unionist Alliance." Kildare Observer and Eastern Counties Advertiser 01 April 1893, Saturday: 6 [of 8], Col. 4c [of 5]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001870/18930401/062/0006. Print: The Kildare Observer, n.p.
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  31. ↑ "The Summer Club." Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) 29 June 1896, Monday: 8 [of 12], Col. 2b [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001112/18960629/072/0008. Print title: Daily Telegraph, p. 8.
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  34. ↑ "Li Hung Chang's Diet." Edinburgh Evening News 19 August 1896, Wednesday: 3 [of 4], Col. 8b [of 8]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/18960819/057/0003.
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  36. ↑ "Lady Burton's Party at Chesterfield House." Belper & Alfreton Chronicle 30 July 1897, Friday: 7 [of 8], Col. 1c [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004151/18970730/162/0007. Print title: Belper and Alfreton Chronicle; n.p.
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 J.P.B. "The Case of Mrs. Elliott." Black & White 30 October 1897, Saturday: 12 [of 34], Cols. 1a–2b [of 2]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004617/18971030/036/0012. Print title Black and White, p. 542.
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