Social Victorians/People/Clifden

Also Known As

• Family name: Seymour, Agar-Ellis, Stirling
• Viscountess Clifden
  • Eliza Horatia Frederica Seymour, Viscountess Clifden ( – 23 April 1896)
• Viscount Clifden
  • Henry Agar-Ellis, 3rd Viscount Clifden of Gowran ()
  • Henry George Agar, 4th Viscount Clifden of Gowran ( – 28 March 1895)

Demographics

• Nationality:

Residences

• Dover House, Whitehall, S.W.
• Dover House, Roehampton

Family

• Eliza Horatia Frederica Seymour, Viscountess Clifden (16 July 1833 – 23 April 1896)
• Henry Agar-Ellis, 3rd Viscount Clifden of Gowran ()

1. Hon. Lucy Georgiana Mary Agar-Robartes (1862 – 20 October 1864)
2. Hon. Lilah Georgiana Augusta Constance Agar-Ellis (6 August 1862 – 27 January 1944)
3. Henry George Agar, 4th Viscount Clifden of Gowran (2 September 1863 – 28 March 1895)

• Walter George Stirling, 3rd Bt. (1839 – )

1. Evelyn Mary Caroline Lilah (8 August 1877 – )
2. Son (14 October 1878 – 14 October 1878)

Organizations

• Queen Victoria's household: Lady of the Bedchamber, 1867–1872; Extra Lady of the Bedchamber from 1872

Timeline

1875 October 12, Eliza Horatia and Walter George Stirling married at St. John's Church, Wilton Road, London.

1897 July 2, Friday, a " Miss Stirling" attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

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

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, a Miss Stirling attended the Marchioness of Londonderry; she is called Miss Seymour by one newspaper, and perhaps Eliza Seymour Agar-Ellis, as a Seymour, is the basis for that association?

Questions and Notes

1. Two people are listed as having accompanied Viscount Clifden to big social events: a Lieutenant-Colonel Stirling and the Hon. L. Agar Ellis, which is likely Hon. Lilah Georgiana Augusta Constance Agar-Ellis?

Bibliography

• Bisset, Adam. The Upper Ten Thousand, for 1876: A Biographical Handbook