Social Victorians/People/Duncombe
Also Known As[edit | edit source]
- Family name: Duncombe
- Duncombe is also the family name of the Earl of Feversham and Viscount Helmsley.
Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies[edit | edit source]
Timeline[edit | edit source]
1876 December 5, Alfred Charles Duncombe and Lady Florence Montagu married.[1]
1897 July 2, Friday, Lady Florence Duncombe and Mr. Alfred Duncombe 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[edit | edit source]
Lady Florence Duncombe (at 456) and Alfred Duncombe (at 454) — called Mr. and Lady F. Duncombe — attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.
Lady Florence Duncombe went, according to the Gentlewoman, as an "Elizabethan Court lady," wearing "black silk velvet, white quilted satin studded with pearls."[2]:p. 34, Col. 1c
Elliott & Fry's portrait of "Lady Anne Florence Adelaide Duncombe (née Montagu) as a Lady of the Court of Marie Stuart" in costume is photogravure #258 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[3] The printing on the portrait says, "Lady Florence Duncombe as a Lady of the Court of Marie Stuart."[4]
This portrait was not taken at the ball or in a photographer's studio using sets and props. It looks like it was taken in someone's home.
Alicia Duncombe[edit | edit source]
Lady Alicia Duncombe (at 453) came dressed as a Greek Slave and walked in the "Oriental" procession.[5][6]
Demographics[edit | edit source]
- Nationality: British
Residences[edit | edit source]
- Calwich Abbey[7]
Family[edit | edit source]
- Alfred Charles Duncombe (5 June 1843 – 22 February 1925)[7]
- Lady Florence (Anne Florence Adelaide) Montagu ( – 16 January 1940)[1]
Relations[edit | edit source]
- Lady Anne Duncombe's father was John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich.[1]
- Her mother was Lady Mary Paget.[1]
Other Duncombes[edit | edit source]
- Lady Alicia Duncombe (at 453)
Questions and Notes[edit | edit source]
- Mystery: Alicia Duncombe is still unaccounted for, might belong on the Feversham page or the Helmsley page. Or perhaps the two newspapers made the same mistake and have the wrong name?
Footnotes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Lady Anne Florence Adelaide Montagu." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
- ↑ “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Lady Florence Duncombe as a Lady of the Court of Marie Stuart." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158621/Lady-Anne-Florence-Adelaide-Duncombe-ne-Montagu-as-a-Lady-of-the-Court-of-Marie-Stuart.
- ↑ "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12, Cols. 1a–4c The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
- ↑ "Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House." Morning Post Saturday 3 July 1897: 7 [of 12], Col. 4a–8 Col. 2b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970703/054/0007.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Alfred Charles Duncombe." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-11-25.