Social Victorians/People/Ribblesdale

Also Known As

• Family name: Lister
• Baron Ribblesdale
  • Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale (25 August 1876 – 21 October 1925)

Demographics

Nationality

• Thomas Lister, British
• Charlotte Monkton Tennant, British
• Ava Loel Willing, American

Residences

• Grosvenor Square, Mayfair

Family

• Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale (28 April 1828 – 25 August 1876)
• Emma Mure (1833 – 5 July 1911)
  1. Hon. Beatrix Lister ()
  2. Hon. Adelaide Lister ()
  3. Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblestone (29 October 1854 – 21 October 1925)
  4. Hon. Martin Lister (25 July 1857 – 24 February 1897)
  5. Hon. Sir Reginald Lister (19 May 1865 – 10 November 1912)

• Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale (29 October 1854 – 21 October 1925)
• Charlotte Monkton Tennant (1858 – 2 May 1911)
  1. Captain Hon. Thomas Lister (2 May 1878 – 10 January 1904)
  2. Hon. Barbara Lister (30 May 1880 – 22 December 1943)
  3. 2nd Lt. Hon. Charles Alfred Lister (26 October 1887 – 28 August 1915)
  4. Hon. Laura Lister (12 January 1892 – 24 March 1965)
  5. Hon. Diana Lister (7 May 1893 – 3 December 1983)
• Ava Loel Willing (15 September 1868 – 9 June 1958)

Relations

• Charlotte Monkton Tennant's sister was Margot Tennant Asquith.
• Ava Loel Willing's first husband was John Jacob Astor IV.

Organizations

• Member of Parliament, Liberal Party
• Government Whip in the House of Lords: Lord in Waiting to Queen Victoria (1880–1885)
• Queen Victoria's household: Master of the Royal Buckhounds (1892–1895)

Timeline

1897 July 2, Lord and Lady Ribblesdale attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House, as did the Hon. R. Lister

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

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale (at 185) sat at Table 8.

• "Conspicuous" among the men "arrayed in the dresses of their family" was "Lord Ribblesdale, after the Lawrence picture of his grandfather." (The description of Lord Ribblesdale in the article in the Times is almost identical to that of the one in the Carlisle Patriot).

Charlotte, Lady Ribblesdale (at 206) sat at Table 11. Lady Ribblesdale's original costume (Duchess of Parma) appeared in the Drury Lane production of The White Heather.

The Hon. Reginald Lister (at 214) sat at Table 12 in the first supper seating.

Questions and Notes

1. The page in The Peerage says Ribblestone most of the time but not always. The Wikipedia page says Ribblesdale. Both have citations. Obituaries say Ribblesdale.