Social Victorians/Timeline/1882

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January 1882

The first production of Wagner's The Ring occurred in London, 1882; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, attended.

28 January 1882, Saturday

Lily Langtry was appearing

in a comedy called Ours at the Haymarket Theatre. ... Having written to his son Prince George about Mrs. Langtry's successful debut, he [the Prince of Wales] travelled up three times from Sandringham to see her act. The dates, noted punctiliously in his engagement diary, are January 28, February 13 and March 15. The Prince's interest, of course, helped the box office, and when certain of her play's success Mrs. Langtry gave a midnight supper party which the Prince and his cousin the Duke of Cambridge attended.

February 1882

13 February 1882, Monday

Lily Langtry was appearing

in a comedy called Ours at the Haymarket Theatre. ... Having written to his son Prince George about Mrs. Langtry's successful debut, he travelled up three times from Sandringham to see her act. The dates, noted punctiliously in his engagement diary, are January 28, February 13 and March 15. The Prince's interest, of course, helped the box office, and when certain of her play's success Mrs. Langtry gave a midnight supper party which the Prince and his cousin the Duke of Cambridge attended.

26 February 1882, Sunday

James M. Whistler wrote Mary Montgomerie Singleton (Mary Montgomerie Lamb, pseud. Violet Fane), asking her to come to his "little breakfast next Sunday" (Whistler).

28 February 1882, Tuesday

"On the 28th of February, 1882, the Prince of Wales presided at a meeting held in the Banqueting Hall, St. James Palace, for the purpose of soliciting public support for founding a 'Royal College of Music.' … Larger meetings the Prince has frequently addressed, but never one more broadly representative of all the most distinguished and influential classes in the kingdom. The Ambassadors and Ministers of most of the Continental Powers were also among the audience." (Macauley 394)

March 1882

7 March 1882, Tuesday

Reginald Chandos-Pole and Violet Denison married at a fashionable wedding.

Yesterday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, London, in the presence of a large and fashionable congregation, the nuptials were celebrated of Mr. Reginald Walkeleyne Chandos-Pole, of Radburne Hall, Derby (master of the Meynell hounds), arid Miss Violet Katherine Denison, daughter of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. W. Beckett Denison. The bridegroom, attended by his "best man" (his Grace the Duke of Portland), and numerous friends arrived early, and at twenty minutes to twelve the bride was conducted to the steps by her father, who subsequently gave her away. She was attired in a lovely gown of peluche arabesque, the petticoat and train being of white moire and orange blossoms and point á laiguille, with a train of the same costly lace. She also wore a rich tulle veil, and carried a splendid bouquet of orange and other flowers. Her ornaments consisted of a magnificent tiara of diamonds (the gift of Anna Chandos-Pole), fastened with diamond stars (presented by the Hon. Mrs. Denison), and diamond necklace bracelets (the gifts of Mr. Chandos-Pole, Mr. W. B. Denison, and Sir Edmund Beckett.) The bridesmaids were eight in number, viz., Miss Maud Denison (the bride's sister), Miss Chandos-Pole and Miss Alianore Pole (sisters of the bridegroom), Miss Fitzroy and Miss Bethell (cousins of the bride), Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck, Miss Warrender, and Miss Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck, whose costumes were composed of violet velvet, with bonnets of violettes de parure, fastened by brooches of violets enamelled with "V." diamonds. They carried handsome bouquets of the same flowers, the gift of Mrs. Chandos-Pole. The service, which was choral, was most effectively rendered, the officiating minister being his Grace the Archbishop of York, assisted by the Rev. William Chandos-Pole, uncle of the bridegroom. The hymn, "How welcome was the call" was sung before, and "O Jesus I have promised" after the ceremony. The newly-married couple and their immediate friends having first entered the vestry and signed the register, the party, whose departure was witnessed by a large crowd, assembled outside the cnurch, proceeded the town residence of the bride's parents, 138, Piccadilly, where the wedding breakfast took place, and where the happy pair received the hearty congratulations and good wishes of a large circle of relatives and friends.

The wedding guests included the Archbishop of York, Mrs. and Mis [sic] Thomson, the Duke of Portland, the Baroness Bolsover, Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck, the Earl and Countess of Galloway, Lady Isabel Stewart, the Ladies Boyle, Elizabeth Countess of Harrington, Lady Anna and Miss Chandos-Pole, Lady Hermione and Miss Graham, Dowager Countess of Rosse, the Countess of Mayo, Lady Eva Bourke, Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, Lord and Lady Edmund Talbot, Viscount and Viscountess Parker, Lord and Lady Allred S. Churchill and Miss Churchill, Lady Vernon, Miss Vernon, Lady Katharine Lambton, Miss Bampfylde, Lord and Lady Eustace Cecil, Lord and Lady Lyveden, Lord Henry and Lord William Cavendish-Bentinck, Lord Capell, Lord and Lady Berkeley Paget, Hon. T. and Lady Augusta Fremantle, Miss Fremantle, Lord W. Nevill, Mr. and Lady Henrietta Turnor, Hon. Algernon Bourke, Hon. Fitzroy Stewart, Hon. L. and Mrs. Parsons, Hon. Mrs. and Miss Yarde Butler, Hon. C. and Mrs. Duncombe, Miss Duncombe, Hon. Mrs. W. and Miss Lowther, Admiral Hon. A. and Mrs. Duncombe, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Colville, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Fitzroy, Misses Fitzroy, Hon. G. Vernon, Hon. Mrs. Stewart, Miss Stewart, Hon. Otway Cuffe, Hon. Arthur Lawley, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Hamar Bass, Sir F. and Lady Milner, Sir E. and Lady Beckett, Sir F. and Lady Burdett, Lady Sykes, Lady Stewart, Sir Henry and Lady Wilmot, Sir John, Lady, and Miss Crewe, Sir Hugh and Lady Hume-Campbell and Misses Warrender, Mr. J. Warrender, Lady and Miss Antrobus, Mrs. and Miss Cavendish-Bentinck, Mrs. and Miss Bischoffsheim, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. C. Beckett Denison, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Bateson De Yarburgh, Mr. and Mrs. Henry West, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Chandos-Pole, Colonel and Mrs. Harford, Mr. and Mrs. H. Brocklehurst, Mrs. and Miss Lindsay Antrobus, Miss Bethell, Mr. G. Bethell, Miss Lascelles, Mrs. and Miss Bagot, Mr. Granville Milner, Mr. Arthur Brand, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Henry Graham, Colonel Eaton, Mr. Edward Stuart Wortley, Major Maude, Captain and Mrs. Lucas, Mr. A. Fitzroy, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Chapman, Major and Mrs. Anstruther, Mr. Mallock, Mr. F. Cavendish-Bentinck, Colonel and Mrs. F. Manningham Buller, Mr. Harrison, Mr. G. Allsopp, and others.

In the afternoon the bride and bridegroom took their departure for Dale Park, Arundel, the seat of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, to spend the honeymoon. The wedding presents, which were much admired, numbered about 200, amongst them being a diamond necklace and pendant and dressing-case and travelling-bag from Mr. R. W. Chandos-Pole, diamond pendant, bracelet, and hoop ring from Mr. W. Beckett Denison, diamond star from the Hon. Mrs. Beckett Denison, diamond tiara from Lady Chandos-Pole, diamond bracelet from Sir Edmund Beckett, pink pearl and diamond bracelet from the Earl of Feversham, diamond and ruby ring from Mr. Ernest Denison, diamond and cat's-eye ring from the Misses Denison, pearl and diamond ring from Mr. Gervase and Mr. Rupert Denison, diamond and sapphire brooch from Lady Feversham, diamond and pearl ivy leaf and pink pearl and diamond pin from Sir P. and Lady Milner, pearl spider from Mrs. Adrian Hope, pearl and gold bouquet holder from Lady Lyveden, pearl pin from the Hon. Mrs. Bampfylde, turquoise and pearl horse-shoe brooch from the Hon. Mrs. Gerard, horse-shoe pearl and diamond brooch the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons, plain gold bangle from Miss Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck, pearl brooch from Mrs. Walter Forbes, silver necklace from the Hon. Mr and Mrs. C. Duncombe, amethyst and pearl bee from Mr George Faber, Indian silver bangle from Captain and Mrs. Ashton, case of gold spoons from Earl Ferrers, case of gold spoons from Mr. Edmund Faber, silver tankards and bowl from the members of the Meynell Hunt, silver cup from officers of the Grenadier Guards, silver epergne from tenants on the Radburne Mercaston, and Newborough estates, escritoire from the labourers on the Radburne estates, timepiece from the servants at Radburne, silver lamp from the household at Nun-Appleton and Piccadilly, silver hunting-horn from the Duke of Portland, silver hunting-horn from Mr. and Mrs. Meade Wales, oak overmantel and chimney piece from the Countess of Harrington, Bible, Prayer, and Hymn Book, and Church Service from tenants at Radburne, Mercaston, and Newborough; carbuncle and pearl pin from Lady Hermione Duncombe, silver tea-kettle from Mr. W. Beckett Denison, enamelled clock trom Viscount and Viscountess Boyne, Chippendale liquor case from Mr. G. V. Boyle, two old silver vases from Mrs. Warrender, large Japanese screen from Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, silver tray from Sir Andrew and Lady Fairbairn, &c.

15 March 1882, Wednesday

Lily Langtry in Ours at the Haymarket with the Prince of Wales

Lily Langtry was appearing

in a comedy called Ours at the Haymarket Theatre. ... Having written to his son Prince George about Mrs. Langtry's successful debut, he [the Prince of Wales] travelled up three times from Sandringham to see her act. The dates, noted punctiliously in his engagement diary, are January 28, February 13 and March 15. The Prince's interest, of course, helped the box office, and when certain of her play's success Mrs. Langtry gave a midnight supper party which the Prince and his cousin the Duke of Cambridge attended.

The Marchioness of Salisbury's Assembly

The Marchioness's first reception of the season began with a dinner, at which Princess Louise was the central guest, followed by a large reception.

20 March 1882, Monday

The Duke of Connaught met with and addressed, with “the Lord Mayor in the Chair,” “Merchants, Bankers, and leading men in the City, at the Mansion House” (Macauley 403).

April 1882

7 April 1882, Friday

Good Friday.

9 April 1882, Sunday

Easter Sunday.

19 April 1882, Wednesday

The first anniversary of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield's death. Lady Knightley reports in her Journals that "Quantities of people are walking about with primrose buttonholes to commemorate the day," primrose being his favorite flower according to the Queen (Journals 350). "But thousands of Lord Beaconsfield's more grateful admirers marked their deep sense of the solemnity of the anniversary and their affectionate interest in its observance, by wearing in their breasts that floral token of reverence and regard he had himself so emblematically adopted — the primrose. The very streets, in Westminster more particularly, were bright with that sweet and graceful flower in all directions; and in the fashionable drives and rides of / the parks it was memorably and significantly conspicuous" (Kebbel 324-325).

May 1882

6 May 1882, Saturday

Robert Milnes describes Brooks’s Club: "I recall a dramatic moment on May 6th, 1882, when we were lingering on in the dining-room after a pleasant meeting of the Fox Club, and Bill Kensington, our popular Whip, rushed into the room saying, 'They have murdered Freddy Cavendish!' I drove down to 10 Downing Street with another member to hear the story from Edward Hamilton, who told us that Mr. Gladstone had just gone across to Carlton House Terrace to break the news to Lady Frederick" (Pope-Hennessy Lord Crewe 16).

11 May 1882, Thursday

Lady Knightley is presented to the Queen, who gave her a "very cordial reception" (Journals 353).

21 May 1882, Sunday

The Bishop of Winchester had a dinner party, which the Knightleys attended, along with Mr. Heywood Sumner, Lord Selborne, Lady Strangford, and "Prince Ghika, the Roumanian Minister, with his wife" (Knightsley's Journals 353).

24 May 1882, Wednesday

Derby Day.

According to the Morning Post, <quote>Dowager Viscountess Downe's dance at 8, Belgrave-square, instead of the 23d. / Lady Brassey's "at home," 24, Park-lane. / Mrs. Bateson de Yarburgh's dance, instead of the 15th inst. / Mr. Charles Halle's third chamber music concert, Grosvenor Gallery, at half-past eight, assisted by Madame Norman-Neruda and Herr Franz Neruda. / Chevalier and Mrs. Desanges's "at home," at 16, Stratford-place, from four to seven o'clock. / Royal Horticultural Society's great flower show of the season and horticultural implement exhibition, this day and tomorrow. Band of the Royal Horse Guards each day.</quote> ("Arrangements for This Day." The Morning Post Wednesday, 24 May 1882: p. 5 [of 8], Col. 6A).

28 May 1882, Sunday

Whit Sunday.

July 1882

13 July 1882, Thursday

Garden party at Marlborough House, reported in Lady Knightley's Journals (355).

August 1882

28 August 1882, Monday

Summer Bank Holiday.

September 1882

4 September 1882, Monday

The Times published J.L. Joynes's "A Political Tour of Ireland" on 4 September, in which Joynes described being arrested with Henry George "by a gang of Galway policemen who took him [George] to be a revolutionary Fenian" (Holroyd, vol. 1, p. 127).

5 September 1882, Tuesday

American economist Henry George spoke on Land Nationalization to a large crowd, attracted to the talk by J.L. Joynes's 4 September Times story, that included George Bernard Shaw (Holroyd, vol. 1, p. 127–28).

7 September 1882, Thursday

Bret Harte

was one of a select group Osgood managed to scare up for a dinner at the Hotel Continental in London on September 7, 1882 — Aldrich, Hay, Howells, Henry James, Clarence King, Moncure Conway, Charles Dudley Warner, and Edwin Booth among them. "It was a most remarkable coincidence to find all these men together in London," he [Harte] reported to Anna; indeed, "it would have been most remarkable for New York or Boston." His most vivid impression of Howells was that he had "grown fat." On his part, Howells remarked later that Harte resembed "a French marquis of the ancien regime" or "an American actor made up" for the role. It was the last time they would meet.

28 September 1882, Saturday

The Wedding of John M'Donald and Georgiana Lambart

Marriage in High Life.

The marriage of Mr John M'Donald, of Bellmore, of Dumbartonshire, and Miss Georgiana Ross Lambart, daughter of Mr and Lady Fanny Lambart, of Beaupark, county Meath, took place at St George's Church, Hanover-square, London, by special licence, on Saturday afternoon. Those invited to the ceremony assembled at half-past two o'clock. Mr Andrew M'Ewan officiated as best man. The bride was attended by her six sisters. The bride's dress was composed of white satin duchesse, trimmed with lace, and she wore a wreath of orange blossoms and diamond tiara, diamond riviers and pendant en suite, the gifts of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids were dressed alike in costumes of white surah, trimmed with lace, baskets of shamrocks and thistles being fastened to the sides of the dresses; and they carried bouquets of Parma violets and sapano roses. Each wore a massive gold ring with the initials of the bride and bridegroom in rubies, the gift of the latter. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Hon and Rev George Bourke, M A, assisted by the Rev Arthur Newcome, the bride being given away by her father. Mr and Lady Fanny Lambart afterwards entertained the wedding party at their house in Harley street, when the Marquis and Marchioness Conyngham and Ladies Conyngham, the Countess of Winchelsea, Lady Churchill, and Hon Victor Spencer, Sir Theodore Brinckman, Hon and Rev George and Mrs Bourke, the Countess of Mayo and Ladies Bourke, Mr C Combe (Royal Horse Guards), Mr and Lady Constance Combe, Sir Arthur Scott, Lord Langford, Hon W Rowley, Hon Algernon Bourke, Lady Scott and Miss Scott, Captain Pole Carew, Hon Maurice Bourke, and many other relations and friends were present. About five o'clock the newly-married couple started for the Hon Henry Bourke's residence in Surrey to pass the honeymoon. The bride's presents were very numerous. Her Majesty the Queen was graciously pleased to present her with an Indian shawl.

October 1882

Sometime in October 1882, Annie Horniman met Moina Bergson at the Slade School of Art, run by Alphone Legros (AEFH memo 14 July 1898, qtd Howe 64).

31 October 1882, Tuesday

Halloween.

November 1882

5 November 1882, Sunday

Guy Fawkes Day.

25 November 1882, Saturday

Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri, opened at the Savory: "A glittering crowd attended the first night, including Captain (later Captain Sir) Eyre Massey Shaw, head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, whom the Fairy Queen apostrophizes in the second act ('Oh, Captain Shaw/Type of true love kept under/Could they brigade with cold cascade/Quench my great love, I wonder?'). On the first night, Alice Barnett as the Fairy Queen sang the verses directly to the Captain, to the great delight of the audience" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolanthe). Clement Scott was there? Who wrote reviews and for which performances?

December 1882

9 December 1882, Saturday

Prime Minister Gladstone attended Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe with his son, Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., sitting in the 4th row of the orchestra stalls. (The Era 1882 December 9 45(2307): 7, col. 3 [unsigned news item]. Rpt online Savoy Operas http://savoyoperas.org.uk/iolanthe/iomiscell.html.) Or did they attend on the 4th?

25 December 1882, Monday

Christmas Day

26 December 1882, Tuesday

Boxing day

Works Cited

• Knightly.
• Macaulay, James, Ed. Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales: 1863–1888. London: J. Murray, 1889. Google Books, retrieved 22 February 2010. Actually, “Founding the Royal College of Music”: 394-403.
• Whistler, James McNeill. Letter to Mary Montgomerie Singleton (Mary Montgomerie Lamb, pseud. Violet Fane). 22 February 1882. The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. System Number: 11133. http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/display/?rs=4&nameid=Fane_V&sr=1&initial=F (accessed November 2016).