Social Victorians/People/Violet Tweedale

Also Known As

• Family names: Chambers, Tweedale
• Mrs. Violet Tweedale (Howe 52)
• Miss Violet Chambers (signature in the "Golden Dawn Address Book" (Küntz 182)
• Golden Dawn motto: Facta Non Verba — "Deeds, not words" (Küntz 182)
• The family name of the Marquess of Tweedale is Hay, so no near relations there to her husband.

Demographics

• Nationality:

Family

• Violet Chambers (1862 – 10 December 1936)
• Clarens Tweedale ()

Relations

• Robert Chambers, editor of Chambers' Journal, her father

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Acquaintances

• Arthur Conan Doyle?

Friends

• Helena Blavatsky
• Robert Browning
• Frederic Leighton
• Anne Proctor (mother of Adelaide Proctor)
• Marie, Countess of Caithness, Duchess of Medina Pomar

Organizations

• Rescue work in the East End

Timeline

1889, Violet Chambers moved to London.

1889 September, Violet Chambers joined the Golden Dawn, Isis-Urania Temple (Howe 52; Küntz 182).

1891, Violet Chambers and Clarens Tweedale married.

Questions and Notes

1. Tweedale was known to be an excellent golfer; her father's 1862 book was about golf.
2. Violet Tweedale wrote dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction, about spiritualism and not.

Bibliography

• Howe
• Küntz
• "Violet Tweedale." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Tweedale (accessed July 2020).