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Lady Agneta Harriet Montagu
Lady Agneta Harriet Montagu (née Yorke; 13 December 1838 - 12 March 1919), sometimes known as Lady Agnete Yorke and Lady Augusta Yorke, was a British aristocrat and courtier. She served as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Alexandra of Denmark and Edward VII in 1867 and as Lady of the Bedchamber in the household of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, who was the daughter of Queen Victoria. She was the mother of George Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich. Biography Lady Agneta was born on 13 December 1838 to Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke and The Honourable Susan Liddell, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. She was the sister of Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke, Eliot Constantine Yorke, and Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph, Lady Biddulph. She grew up on the Wimpole estate in Cambridgeshire. Queen Victoria attended a ball at Wimpole in October 1843 and wrote in her diary that "the 4 eldest orkeChildren appeared, very nicely dressed, and little Agneta looke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Silvy
Camille-Léon-Louis Silvy (1834–1910) was a French photographer, primarily active in London. He learned photography from his friend, Count Olympe Aguado, in 1857, and became a member of the Société française de photographie in 1858. He then moved to London and opened a portrait studio at 38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, becoming a member of the Photographic Society in 1859. Sitters in Silvy's portraits include Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Queen Emma of Hawaii, Lady Amberley, Harriet Martineau, Adelina Patti, Sara Forbes Bonetta and Frederick Robson. He also photographed many members of the British royal family. The National Portrait Gallery, London, holds his studio's daybooks, which include details of some 17,000 sittings, with about 12,000 of these showing an image from the sitting. He closed his studio and returned to France in 1868. He himself believed that his nervous system had been damaged by exposure to potassium cyanide in the darkroom but it is mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The city of Cambridge is the county town. Following the Local Government Act 1972 restructuring, modern Cambridgeshire was formed in 1974 through the amalgamation of two administrative counties: Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, comprising the Historic counties of England, historic county of Cambridgeshire (including the Isle of Ely); and Huntingdon and Peterborough, comprising the historic county of Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough, historically part of Northamptonshire. Cambridgeshire contains most of the region known as Silicon Fen. The county is now divided between Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council, which since 1998 has formed a separate Unitary authorities of England, unita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montagu Family
Montagu may refer to: * Montagu (surname) Titles of nobility * Duke of Montagu * Marquess of Montagu ** John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (c. 1431 – 1471), Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses * Baron Montagu of Beaulieu * Baron Montagu of Boughton * Montagu Baronets, alternate name for the Baron Swaythling Places * Montagu, Western Cape, South Africa * Montagu Island, in the Southern Ocean * Montagu Bay, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart * Montagu, Tasmania, a rural locality * West Montagu, Tasmania, a rural locality * Montagu - country just under Australia - rural Ships * , 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1779 and broken up in 1818 * , ''Duncan''-class battleship launched in 1901 and wrecked in 1906 Other uses * Ashley Montagu Resolution, petition to the World Court to end the genital modification and mutilation of children * Montagu C. Butler Library, major collection of items in and about Esperanto * Montagu (clothing) * Montagu's harrier, migra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Of The Bedchamber
Lady of the Bedchamber is the title of a lady-in-waiting holding the official position of personal attendant on a British queen regnant or queen consort. The position is traditionally held by the wife of a peer. They are ranked between the Mistress of the Robes and the Women of the Bedchamber; unlike the latter they are not in regular attendance, however they are on duty for the more important public occasions. On overseas visits Queen Elizabeth II was usually accompanied by two ladies-in-waiting, one of whom was usually a Lady of the Bedchamber. The equivalent title and office has historically been used in most European royal courts (Dutch: ''Dames du Palais''; French: ''Dames'' or ''Dame de Palais''; German: '' Hofstaatsdame'' or '' Palastdame''; Italian: '' Dame di Corte''; Russian: '' Hofdame'' or '' Statsdame''; Spanish: '' Dueña de honor''; Swedish: ''Statsfru''). History In the Middle Ages, Margaret of France, the wife of King Edward I of England, is noted to have h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughters Of British Earls
A daughter is a female offspring; a girl or a woman in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state of being someone's daughter. The male counterpart is a son. Analogously the name is used in several areas to show relations between groups or elements. From biological perspective, a daughter is a first degree relative. The word daughter also has several other connotations attached to it, one of these being used in reference to a female descendant or consanguinity. It can also be used as a term of endearment coming from an elder. In patriarchal societies, daughters often have different or lesser familial rights than sons. A family may prefer to have sons rather than daughters and subject daughters to female infanticide. In some societies it is the custom for a daughter to be 'sold' to her husband, who must pay a bride price. The reverse of this custom, where the parents pay the husband a sum of money to compensate for the financial burden of the woman and is known as a dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1838 Births
Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration of Morse's new invention, the telegraph. * January 11 - A 7.5 earthquake strikes the Romanian district of Vrancea causing damage in Moldavia and Wallachia, killing 73 people. * January 21 – The first known report about the lowest temperature on Earth is made, indicating in Yakutsk. * February 6 – Boer explorer Piet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by King Dingane kaSenzangakhona of the Zulu people, after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith. * February 17 – Weenen massacre: Zulu impis massacre about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoikhoi and Basuto around the site of Weenen in South Africa. * February 24 – U.S. Representatives William J. Graves of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Montagu
The House of Montagu ( ; historically Montagud, Montaigu, Montague, Montacute and Litinised as ''de Monte Acuto'' ("from the sharp mountain" (French: "mont aigu")) is an English noble family founded in Somerset after the Norman Conquest of 1066 by the Norman warrior ''Drogo de Montagud'' (so named in the Domesday Book). They rose to their highest power and prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries as Earls of Salisbury, the last in the male line being Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (1388-1428), the maternal grandfather of " Warwick the King-Maker", 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury. The surviving noble family of Montagu "of Boughton" in Northamptonshire, where in 1683 the 1st Duke of Montagu built the splendid and surviving Boughton House, claimed descent from the ancient Anglo-Norman family of Montagu, Earls of Salisbury, which connection is however unproven. The earliest proven ancestor of the Montagu family of Boughton is Thomas Montagu (d.1516) of He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Montagu, 7th Earl Of Sandwich
John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich PC (8 November 1811 – 3 March 1884), styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke from 1814 to 1818, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served under Lord Derby as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1852 and as Master of the Buckhounds between 1858 and 1859. Background and education Montagu was the son of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, and his wife Lady Louisa Mary Ann Julia Harriett, daughter of Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1818 at the age of six. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he played two first-class matches for the Cambridge University Cricket Club. Political career Lord Sandwich served in the Earl of Derby's first administration as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from February to December 1852 and was admitted to the Privy Council the same year. When the Conservatives returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Charles Dudley
Robert Charles Dudley (1826 – 28 April 1909) was a British watercolourist and lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a .... Life Dudley was born in 1826 and his father was Charles Stokes Dudley, his grandfather was Irish and his grandmother was the Quaker minister Mary Dudley. Links Robert Charles Dudley, SciencemuseumRobert Charles Dudley collectionat MET Robert Charles Dudley at National Portrait Gallery, London* ttp://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/dudley/atlantictelegraph.html Robert Dudley and The Atlantic Telegraph. Simon Cooke, Ph.D References Dudley, Robert (The Getty Vocabularies) 1826 births 1909 deaths British watercolourists 19th-century British painters {{UK-painter-19thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana De Vere Beauclerk
Diana de Vere Beauclerk, Lady Huddleston (10 December 1842 – 1 April 1905) was an English writer. She wrote ''Summer and Winter in Norway'' (1868) and ''True Love'' (1869) under the name Lady Di Beauclerk. Life Lady Diana de Vere Beauclerk was born on 10 December 1842 in London, the daughter of William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans and Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins. In 1863, Diana Beauclerk was one of Queen Alexandra's eight bridesmaids. She married Sir John Walter Huddleston in 1872. The night before the wedding ceremony, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, who would conduct the service, wrote in his diary: "To All Saints', Knightsbridge, to marry Lady Di." From then on she used the name Lady Diana Huddleston, but she was familiarly known as "The Beautiful Lady Di" or "Lady Di". Lady Diana was well known in Norwich and, together with her mother, worked for Huddleston in his successful campaign there in the Parliamentary election of 1874. She frequently sat on the bench alongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Russell, Baroness Ampthill
Emily Theresa Russell, Baroness Ampthill, (9 September 1843 – 22 February 1927) was a British courtier. Born Lady Emily Theresa Villiers, she was the third daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon and his wife, Katherine (née Grimston, formerly Foster-Barham), eldest daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam. She was a bridesmaid to Princess Alexandra of Denmark on the latter's marriage to the Edward, Prince of Wales in 1863. On 5 May 1868, she married Odo Russell (son of Lord George Russell) at Watford and they had six children: * Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (1869–1935) * Hon. Odo William Theopilus Villiers Russell (1870–1951) * Hon. Constance Evelyn Villiers Russell (1872–1942) *Hon. Alexander Victor Frederick Villiers Russell (1874–1965) * Hon. Victor Alexander Frederick Villiers Russell (1874–1965) * Hon. Augusta Louise Margaret Romola Villiers Russell (1879–1966) In 1881, Odo was created Baron Ampthill. In 1885, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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