Social Victorians/People/Oppenheim

Also Known As

• Family name: Oppenheim
• Henry Maurice William Oppenheim

Demographics

• Nationality: he German, she British
• Religion: he Jewish until he converted to Anglicism in 1868 when he married; she Church of England

Residences

• Chipstead, Kent, England

Family

• Henry Maurice William Oppenheim (1835 – 4 May 1912)

1. Rosalinda Oppenheim ()

• Isabel Georgina Butler (15 May 1843 – 24 March 1933)

1. Lt.-Col. Augustus Charles Oppenheim ( – 30 September 1967)

Organizations

• Sal. Oppenheim, bank, partner
• The London Daily News

Timeline

1868 April 16, Henry Oppenheim and Isabel Georgina Butler married, and he converted to Anglicanism.

1876, Oppenheim was partly responsible for Disraeli's government's purchase of the Suez Canal.

1880s, Oppenheim was involved in the building of the London underground.

1897 May 25, Mrs. Oppenheim hosted a "flower ball," which meant that women's costumes represented a flower:

THE WORLD OF WOMEN.

MRS. OPPENHEIM’S FLOWER BALL.

NOW leafy June, the sweet month of roses, has set in right jubilantly in London, it is nice to dwell in imagination on the delicious Flower Ball Mrs. Henry Oppenheim gave on May 25 at her beautiful townhouse in Bruton Street. Is it not captivating to the fancy to learn that the balcony of the magnificent ball-room was arched with evergreens, studded with lovely flowers; that the handsome hostess looked radiant in a Poppy dress with bodice of basket-work in gold embroidery; that Lilian, Duchess of Marlborough, was appropriately attired in lily costume; and that roses garlanded the Duchess of Leeds’s superb brocade and tulle dress; while Mrs. Asquith, the wife of the ex-Home Secretary, also chose English roses? I am glad to know that the dear old Shamrock of Erin was not forgotten by an Irish beauty.

1897 July, the proprietors of the Daily News in July 1897 appear to have been Henry Oppenheim and Arnold Morley, M.P., and the editor was Edward Tyas Cook.

1897 July 2, Henry Oppenheim, Isabella Oppenheim, and their daughter Rosalinda attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. Henry Oppenheim is #397 on the list of people who attended; Isabella Oppenheim is #408; Miss Rosalinda Oppenheim is #230.

1905 May 23, Rosalinda Oppenheim and Hon. Kenneth Hallyburton Campbell married.

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

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Mr. Henry Oppenheim, Mrs. Isabel Oppenheim (misspelled Openheim) and Miss Oppenheim were present.

Miss Rosalinda Oppenheim was among the Suite of Ladies in the Oriental procession. In one report her name is misspelled Openheim.

We know nothing about the costumes of any of the Oppenheims.

Questions and Notes

1. Isabel Georgina Butler was the 13th Lord Dunboyne’s granddaughter.
2. Oppenheim left £518,000.
3. The Suite of Ladies in the Oriental procession at the Duchess of Devonshire's 1897 fancy-dress ball included the following: a Miss West, Mary Goelet, Lady C. Grosvenor, and Miss Oppenheim. The identity of Miss West is even more uncertain than that of Lady C. Grosvenor or Hon. R. Grosvenor. Mary Goelet was 18 years old at the time of the ball; Lady Constance Grosvenor almost 22; Miss Rosalind Oppenheim's age is uncertain, but she cannot be younger than about 30 (her father remarried in 1868).
4. Lost a citation: Thomas 380 for the discussion of the proprietors of the London Daily News.