Social Victorians/People/Jeune

Overview

Francis Henry Jeune, 1st and last Baron St. Helier was the 2nd husband of Mary (Susan Mary Elizabeth) Stewart-Mackenzie, whose 1st husband was a Stanley, Hon. John Constantine Stanley (30 September 1837 – 23 April 1878). They attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House with a Miss Stanley, likely her unmarried daughter Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley, who would have been exactly 21 years old on the day of the ball.

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Lady Mary Jeune

• Oscar Wilde

Organizations

Francis Henry Jeune

• Harrow School
• Balliol College, Oxford University (B.A. 1865, M.A. 1874)
• Inner Temple (admitted 1868)
• Queen's Counsel (appointed 1888)
• Knight Bachelor (appointed 1891)
• Judge of the High Court, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions (1891)
• Privy Counsellor (appointed 1892)
• Judge Advocate-General (1892–1895)
• Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (appointed 1897)
• Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (appointed 1902)

Timeline

1853 February 3, Hon. Alice Margaret Stanley and Augustus Henry Fox-Pitt-Rivers married.

1871 August 15, Lady Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie and Hon. John Constantine Stanley married.

1881 August 17, Mary Stewart-Mackenzie Stanley and married Francis Henry Jeune, 1st and last Baron St. Helier.

1887 April, or perhaps beginning then, new editor of The Woman's World Oscar Wilde "compiled a list of potential contributors, among them prominent social activists, literary luminaries and society women, including two princesses" "[w]ith the help of his well-connected friend Lady Mary Jeune."

1896 July 21, Osma Mary Dorothy Stanley and Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Sir Francis and Lady Jeune and a Miss Stanley attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1903 January 5, Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley and William St. John Freemantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, married, his second marriage.

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

Sir and Lady Jeune

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Sir Francis Jeune was dressed as Lord Chief Justice in the Queen Elizabeth procession. "Notable" was "Sir Francis Jeune as Chief Justice Popham" (this description of Sir Francis Jeune, from the Times, is identical in the Carlisle Patriot).

Lady Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Stanley Jeune (at 551) also attended, as did Miss Stanley, her daughter and his step-daughter Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley (at 552), who would have been the Miss Stanley because her sister Osma had married by this time.

Madeline Stanley

Miss Madeline Stanley as Lady Hopeton, after a miniature by Cosway. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetoun

Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley accompanied Sir Francis Jeune and Lady Jeune (per the Times). Lafayette's portrait of "Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Brodrick (née Stanley), Countess of Midleton as Lady Hopeton, after a miniature by Cosway" in costume is photogravure #214 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Miss Madeline Stanley as Lady Hopeton, after a miniature by Cosway," with a Long S in Miss.

The National Portrait Gallery uses Madeline Stanley's married name, but she was not married at the time of the ball.

Miss Madeline Stanley was probably dressed as Eliza or Elizabeth Carneige Hope, Countess of Hopetoun ( – 1793), whose watercolor portrait (right) was painted by Richard Cosway in 1789 to match another miniature painted at the same time of her husband, James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (1741–1816).

Madeline Stanley's Costume

The dress worn by Madeline Stanley looks very similar to the dresses worn by Lady Margaret and Lady Victoria Innes-Ker (at 23 and 383), who were in the Cosway Quadrille with the Ladies Villiers, as well as the dress worn by Lady Edith Villiers (at 282). The London Daily News describes the dresses worn by the Ladies Ker and the Ladies Villiers in the Cosway quadrille in detail. The Morning Post says that the Ladies Ker wore blue sashes which means that the Ladies Villiers wore the pink. The Daily News mentions both the Ladies Villiers as well as the Ladies Ker specifically, with the Belfast News-Letter reprinting the details from the Daily News:

• "Very artistic was the "Cosway" quadrille, in which the Ladies Ker and the Ladies Villiers took part. The long clinging gowns of Oriental cream satin were veiled in pink muslin, and had very short waists and coloured silk sashes — two of blue and two of pink."

It is possible that, as with Violet Manners and Lady Edith Villiers, Miss Stanley is wearing a costume "after Cosway" and yet is not part of the Cosway quadrille. Because she is a Miss Villiers, however, it seems likely Lady Edith Villiers was part of that quadrille. Madeline Stanley's dress is not identical to the one worn by Lady Edith Villiers, especially the sash; the shawl, however, does seem similar. Violet Manners was also dressed in a costume after Cosway and seems clearly not to have been part of that quadrille.

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Family

Family of the Barony of Alderley and Barony of Eddisbury

• Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (13 November 1802 – 16 June 1869)
• Hon. Henrietta Maria Dillon-Lee (21 December 1807 – 16 February 1895)

1. Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (11 July 1827 – 10 December 1903)
2. Hon. Alice Margaret Stanley (1828 – 19 May 1910)
3. Hon. Henrietta Blanche Stanley (3 July 1830 – 5 January 1920)
4. Hon. Maude Alethea Stanley (May 1833 – 14 July 1915)
5. Hon. Cecilia Stanley ( – 1839)
6. Colonel Hon. John Constantine Stanley (30 September 1837 – 23 April 1878)
7. Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield (16 May 1839 – 18 March 1925)
8. Rt. Rev. Hon. Algernon Charles Stanley (16 September 1843 – 23 April 1928)
9. Lady Katherine Louisa Stanley (c. 1844 – 28 June 1874)
10. Hon. Rosalind Frances Stanley (20 February 1845 – 12 August 1921)

• Ramon Peres y Abril ( – 16 May 1870)
• Fabia Roman, also known as Serafina Fernandez y Funes ( – 15 May, 1905)
• Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (11 July 1827 – 10 December 1903)

• Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie ( – 25 January 1931)
• Hon. John Constantine Stanley (30 September 1837 – 23 April 1878)

1. Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley (2 July 1876 – 2 June 1966)
2. Osma Mary Dorothy Stanley (1877 – 6 October 1965)

• Francis Henry Jeune, 1st and last Baron St. Helier (17 March 1843 – 9 April 1905)

1. Lieutenant Christian Francis Seaforth Jeune (10 August 1882 – 19 August 1904)

• Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley (2 July 1876 – 2 June 1966)
• William St. John Freemantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (14 December 1856 – 13 February 1942)

1. Major Hon. Francis Alan Stewart-Mackenzie of Seaforth (27 February 1910 – 11 September 1943)
2. Major Hon. Michael Victor Brodrick (25 February 1920 – 10 September 1943)

• Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield (16 May 1839 – 18 March 1925)
• Mary Katherine Bell Stanley ( – 4 January 1929)

1. Hon. Katharine Florence Clementine Stanley ( – 10 April 1884)
2. Hon. Henrietta Margaret Stanley (1874 – 21 August 1956)
3. Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield (14 September 1875 – 22 August 1931)
4. Hon. Edward John Stanley (14 May 1878 – 14 November 1908)
5. Lt.-Col. Hon. Oliver Hugh Stanley (23 October 1879 – 13 February 1952)
6. Hon. Sylvia Laura Stanley (1882–1980)
7. Hon. Blanche Florence Daphne Stanley (1885 – 17 July 1968)
8. Hon. Beatrice Venetia Stanley (1887 – 3 August 1948)

Also Known As

• Family name: Jeune
• Baron St. Helier, of St. Helier, Jersey
  • Francis Henry Jeune, 1st and last Baron St. Helier (23 February 1905 – 9 April 1905)
• Baron of Sheffield
  • Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield (10 December 1903 – 18 March 1925)
• Lady Mary Jeune: Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune

Notes and Questions

1. Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley married the same woman — Fabia Roman — 3 times even though she was already married all 3 times. The 1st marriage was in a Registry Office, the 2nd an Islamic ceremony and the 3rd in a Catholic Church.
2. Sir Francis Jeune is #315, Lady Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Stanley Jeune is #551 and Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley is #552 on the complete list of people who attended the Duchess of Devonshire's ball in 1897.
3. Exploring these still-unidentified Stanleys all in the Duchess Procession, beginning with the generation of the children of Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (children born 1827–1845):
   • W. Stanley.
   • Lady J. Stanley.
   • E. Stanley. E. Stanley could conceivably be Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield (1839–1925) or his son Hon. Edward John Stanley (1878–1908), but the absence of an honorific would have been an error.
   • Lady A. Stanley. (Lady A. Stanley may be Lady Alice Stanley, at #157 on the complete list of people who attended the ball, but that Lady A. Stanley was not in the Duchess Procession.) Lady A. Stanley was not Hon. Alice Margaret Stanley, because she married; nor wife of Hon. Algernon Charles Stanley, as he did not marry.