Social Victorians/People/Yarborough

Brocklesby — Earl of Yarborough — by "Spy," Vanity Fair 2 January 1896

Also Known As

• Family name: Anderson-Pelham (until 1905, when it became Pelham)
• the Countess of Yarborough
  • Victoria Anderson-Pelham (1862–1875, her husband died; 1886 her son married)
  • Marcia Lane-Fox Anderson-Pelham (1886–1926)
• the Earl of Yarborough
  • Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough (7 January 1862 – 6 February 1875)
  • Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (6 February 1875 – 12 July 1936)
  • Sackville George Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough (12 July 1936 – 7 February 1948)
• Lord Worsley
  • Charles Anderson-Pelham (1846–1852)
  • Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham (–1875)
  • Charles Sackville Anderson-Pelham (1887–1914)
• Baroness Conyers and Fauconberg
  • Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Anderson-Pelham, 13th Baroness Conyers and 7th Baroness Fauconberg

Timeline

1858 August 3, Charles Anderson-Pelham (3rd Earl) and Victoria Hare married.

1875 February, Charles Anderson-Pelham (3rd Earl) died, at 40; his son, Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, was 15 when he became the 4th Earl.

1881 July 16, Victoria, Countess of Yarborough and John Maunsell Richardson married.

1886 August 5, Charles Anderson-Pelham and Marcia Lane-Fox married.

1888, Marcia Anderson-Pelham's father died, and his title, Baron Conyers, fell into abeyance.

1892, Marcia Anderson-Pelham's father's barony was granted to her, and she became 13th Baroness Conyers.

1897 July 2, Friday, Charles Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl and Marcia, Countess of Yarborough attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. (Marcia, Countess of Yarborough is #54 on the list of people who were present; Charles, Earl of Yarborough is #61.)

1903, the barony of Fauconberg was granted to Marcia Anderson-Pelham.

1905, the Anderson-Pelhams became the Pelhams.

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

The Countess and the Earl of Yarborough were among the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court in the processsion of the Court of Catherine II of Russia.

Marcia, Countess of Yarborough as a Lady of the Court of Catherine II of Russia. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Marcia, Countess Yarborough

Escutcheon of the coat of arms of Russia, embroidered on Countess Yarborough's bodice

Marcia Anderson-Pelham, Countess of Yarborough was dressed as a lady of the court of Catherine the Great at the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Lafayette's portrait (right) of "Marcia Amelia Mary (née Lane-Fox), Countess of Yarborough as a Lady of the Court of Catherine II of Russia" in costume is photogravure #117 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Countess of Yarborough as a Lady of the Court of Catherine II of Russia," with a Long S in Countess and Russia.

The escutcheon of the coat of arms of Russia (left) was embroidered on Countess Yarborough's bodice.

Newspaper Accounts

• She was dressed as a "Lady of the Russian Court. Costume of ivory white satin, embroidered in gold and emeralds, with large gold lace collar studded with emeralds, opening at the back to show another collar of sable, from beneath which fell the train of emerald green velvet bordered with sable, and lined with gold gauze; the bodice was embroidered with the Russian Arms in jewels and gold, and the headdress was composed of diamonds and emeralds."
• "The costume of the Countess of Yarborough was that of a lady of the Russian Court. It was of ivory white satin, embroidered in gold and emeralds, with large gold lace collar studded with emeralds, opening at the back to show another collar of sable, from beneath which fell the train of emerald green velvet bordered with sable, and lined with gold gauze; the bodice was embroidered with the Russian Arms in jewels and gold; and the head-dress was composed of diamonds and emeralds."
• She was in the suite of Lady Raincliffe, who was dressed as Catherine II: "Lady Raincliffe took the part of Catherine II. of Russia in a dress of white satin. The front was wrought in raised gold in a large pattern of conventionalised pomegranate spinging [sic] from a crown raised in gold at the hem, the fruit studded with rubies. In her suite were Lady Margaret Spicer as Countess Soltykoff, the Duchess of Marlborough in a superbly-handsome dress of the same period; the Duchess of Newcastle; Lady Henry Bentinck; the Countess of Yarborough; Lady Mildred Denison; and the Hon. Mrs. Erskine and her daughter."

Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough as a Russian Courtier. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Charles, Earl Yarborough

Charles Anderson-Pelham, Earl of Yarborough wore a costume of the period of Louis XV of France.

Lafayette's portrait (right) of "Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough as a Russian Courtier" in costume is photogravure #118 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Earl of Yarborough as a Russian Courtier," with a Long S in Russian.

Newspaper Accounts

• "Costume of tbe period of Louis XV., carried out in pale pink silk elaborately embroidered in silver."
• "The Earl of Yarborough was in a costume of the period of Louis XV., carried out in pale pink silk, elaborately embroidered in silver."
• "The Earl of Yarborough wore a Louis XV. costume in pale pink and silver."
• "The Earl of Yarborough (period of Louis XV.), pale pink silk, embroidered in silver."
• "The EARL OF YARBOROUGH's costume was of the Louis XV. period. carried out in pale pink silk, elaborately embroidered in silver."

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Family

• Victoria Alexandrina Hare ( – 7 March 1927)
• Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough (14 January 1835 – 6 February 1875)
  1. unknown daughter Anderson-Pelham
  2. Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (11 June 1859 – 12 July 1936)
  3. Lady Gertrude Augusta Anderson-Pelham (11 May 1861 – 6 July 1920)
  4. Hon. Victor Ralph Pelham (30 January 1866 – 5 July 1927)
  5. Hon. Henry Conrwallis Pelham (31 August 1868 – 5 December 1924)
  6. Major Hon. Dudley Roger Hugh Pelham (5 July 1872 – 13 September 1953)

• John Maunsell Richardson (12 June 1846 – 22 January 1912)

1. John Richardson

• Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (11 June 1859 – 12 July 1936)
• Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox (18 October 1863 – 17 November 1926)

1. Charles Sackville Pelham, Lord Worsley (14 August 1887 – 30 October 1914)
2. Sackville George Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough (17 December 1888 – 7 February 1948)
3. Hon. D'Arcy Francis Pelham (15 February 1892 – 19 February 1892)
4. Marcus Herbert Pelham, 6th Earl of Yarborough (30 June 1893 – 2 December 1966)

Relations

1. Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox's sister was Violet Lane-Fox, Countess of Powis.