Social Victorians/People/Tedeschi

Also Known As

• Family name: Tedeschi, sometimes misspelled as Tadeschi
• Mr. Joao Maria Tedeschi, Portuguese diplomat
• Count Radini Tedeschi
• Monsignor Radini Tedeschi
• The Mr. Tedeschi who attended the Duchess of Devonshire's ball is still unidentified.

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Timeline

1893 June 17, Saturday, the Tablet reports that Pope Leo XIII "named [Mgr. Radini-Tedeschi] to take the Cardinal's berratta to the new foreign" Cardinal the Bishop of Rodez.

1894 February 19, Monday, Count Radini Tedeschi was in Rome and received by the Pope.

1894 September 15, Saturday, the Bristol Times and Mirror reported that

Archbishop Stoner is the next probable English Cardinal. Another piece of Papal diplomatic news worthy of note is the approaching recall and elevation to the Cardinalate of Monsignor Ferrata, the Papal Nuncio in Paris, who has been the agent of the Pope's advance towards the Republic, and who will, it is said, be succeeded by Monsignor Radini Tedeschi.

1895 September 10, Tuesday, Queen Victoria approved "Mr. Joao Maria Tedeschi as Consul-General of Portugal at the Cape of Good Hope." On Saturday, 21 September 1895, The Colonies and India Newspaper reported that "Mr. Joao Maria Tedeschi has been appointed British Consul General at Cape Town." 1895 October 20, Sunday, a representative meeting of Catholics met to denounce the replacement of a Catholic by a Labor politician. Willenhall is a town in the West Midlands.

On the proposition of Mr. Tedeschi, seconded by Mr. L. E. Green, it was unanimously resolved "That this public and representative meeting strongly resents and denounces the recent action of the Willenhall School in appointing Mr. Howard as successor to the Rev. P O'Toole, the Catholic representative, as a grave breach of precedent and fair dealing, and as at variance with the uniform practice of Boards throughout the country. Moreover, this meeting considers that nothing short of insult and injustice has been offered to the Willenhall electorate by the practical extinction of the Catholic representation for the remainder of the Board's term of office; and accordingly tenders an expression of regret and sympathy to the Rev. P. O'Toole for the utter lack of courtesy shown by the School Board."

1897 July 2, Mr. Tadeschi attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. 1898 September 3, Saturday, the Dublin Evening Telegraph reported that

Monsignor Radini Tedeschi, who was also present at the meetings of the Belgian Eucharistic Congress, furnished his Holiness [Leo XIII] with a detailed account of the proceedings, and of the solemn religious procession with which the Congress closed. The Pontiff was greatly satisfied at the account of the truly edifying conduct of the population of Brussels, and expressed this satisfaction in words of solemn encomium for the Catholics of Belgium, comparing them in constancy and fidelity to the Catholics of Ireland! (Col. 6c–7b)

1898 March 12, the London Gazette reports that Queen Victoria approved Mr. João Maria Tedeschi as Consul of Portugal at Cardiff.

1898 October 27, Tuesday, an article in the South Wales Daily News is hard to read because of a fold in the paper before it was copied prevents seeing all the necessary words, but Cardiff Mayor Alderman Ramsdale and Mr. J. L. Wheatl[ey?] called upon "Senor Ioao[??] Tedeschi, who takes up the position of Por[??] Consul-General."

1898 November 16, Wednesday, "Messrs. F. de Carpi, Truy, and Z. M. Tedeschi, Consuls for Spain, France, and Portugal respectively, [were] elected honorary members" of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce. The American Consul was present at the meeting.

1899 May 1, Monday, an International Demonstration was held in Hyde Part; on Platform 3, the International Platform, is Tedeschi.

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

Mr. Tadeschi (at 445) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Notes and Questions

1. No person whose name is spelled Tadeschi can be found in any of the normal places that would name someone at the social level likely to be invited to this party, either British or in London because of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Changing the spelling to Tedeschi (a common name in Italy) brings up a number of contemporary newspaper articles, mostly about Monsignor or Count Giacomo Radini Tedeschi, often mentioned in The Tablet, a Catholic newspaper in Britain. He is almost always referred to as Monsignor or occasionally as Count, and almost never without one of these honorifics. He has a Wikipedia page, Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi. He was in the Secretariat of State for the Vatican and involved in diplomatic missions for it so could have been sent to England for the Jubilee.
2. João (or Ioao) Maria Tedeschi was a Portuguese diplomat assigned to various places in the British empire and to the U.S. He seems most often to be mentioned in the Welsh press because he was approved as Consul to Cardiff at one point.
3. A number of advertisements name a Mr. Tedeschi who sold wooden furnishings for houses, and one story repeated a number of times is about a music publisher Tedeschi who owned Leoncavallo's early Chatterton.