Social Victorians/1885-03-17 Duchess of Bedford Reception

Reception, or Evening Party, hosted by the Duchess of Bedford

Logistics

• 1885 March 17, Tuesday night
• The Duchess of Bedford's residence, Eaton Square
• Host: Elizabeth Sackville-West Russell, Duchess of Bedford

Who Was Present

1. the German Ambassador George Herbert Münster and the Countesses Olga and Marie Münster
2. the Turkish Ambassador and Madlle. Musurus
3. the Brazilian Minister and Baroness de Penedo
4. the Spanish Minister
5. the Portuguese Minister and Madame d'Antas
6. the Netherlands Minister and the Countess de Bylandt
7. the Swedish Minister
8. Madame de Staal
9. Baron de Plessen
10. Blum Pasha
11. Count N. Adlerberg
12. Count and Countess Francis Lützow
13. M. and Madame de Zulueta
14. M. Anatole Kroupensky
15. Captain Oldekop
16. Baroness de Brienen and Madlle. de Brienen
17. the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk
18. the Duke of Argyll and Lady Evelyn Campbell
19. the Duchess of Roxburghe and Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill
20. the Marquis of Northampton
21. the Lord Chancellor and Lady Sophia Palmer
22. Earl Manvers and Lady Mary Pierrepont
23. the Earl and Countess of Denbigh and Lady Clare Feilding
24. the Earl of Arran and Lady Mabel Gore
25. the Earl and Countess of Rosebery
26. the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe
27. the Countess of Bradford and Lady Mabel Bridgeman
28. Earl Fortescue
29. the Countess of Cork and Lady Isabel Boyle
30. the Countess of Lathom and the Ladies Wilbraham (2)
31. the Countess of Airlie and Lady Griselda Ogilvy
32. the Earl of Sefton
33. the Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Margaret Cecil
34. Earl and Countess Beauchamp
35. the Earl of Ducie and Misses Oakley (2)
36. Earl and Countess Waldegrave
37. the Countess of Galloway
38. the Earl and Countess of Mar
39. Elizabeth Countess of Harrington
40. Countess De-La-Warr
41. Earl Stanhope
42. the Earl of Dalhousie
43. the Countess of Lytton and Lady Betty Lytton
44. Viscountess Strangford
45. the Dowager Viscountess Canterbury
46. Viscountess Bury and the Hon. Misses Keppel (2)
47. Lord Gerard
48. Lord and Lady Auckland
49. Lord and Lady Arthur Russell
50. Lord Sudeley
51. Lady Abercromby
52. Lord and Lady Alexander Russell
53. Lady Lucy Hicks Beach and Lady Frances Fortescue
54. Hon. Lady Cotterell and Miss Cotterell
55. Lady Antrobus and Miss F. Antrobus
56. Hon. Lady Biddulph
57. Lady Fanny Marjoribanks
58. Lady Henry Somerset
59. Lady Boston and Hon. Miss Irby
60. Lady Brassey and Miss Brassey
61. Field-Marshal Lord Strathnairn
62. Lady Francis Gordon and Miss Gordon
63. Lady Georgiana Peel and Miss Peel
64. Lady Elizabeth Romilly and Miss Romilly
65. Lady Hermione Graham and Miss Graham
66. Lady Maria Ponsonby and Miss Ponsonby
67. Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Mr. Burdett-Coutts
68. Lady Elizabeth Biddulph and Misses Biddulph (2)
69. the Right Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Elliot and Miss Elliot
70. Hon. Miss Henniker
71. Hon. Kenneth Howard
72. Captain the Hon. Randolph Stewart
73. Hon. Eric Barrington and Miss Dallas Yorke
74. Hon. Mr. Hastings
75. Hon. Gilbert Hastings
76. Hon. Mrs. William Lowther and Misses Lowther (2)
77. Hon. Mrs. Hallyburton Campbell
78. Captain the Hon. E. Dawson
79. Hon. Ashley and Mrs. Ponsonby
80. Hon. F. Hanbury-Tracy, M.P., and Mrs. Hanbury-Tracy
81. the Prime Minister and Mrs. Gladstone
82. the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Erskine May and Miss Laughton
83. General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Ponsonby and Miss Ponsonby
84. the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, M.P., and Miss Childers
85. Sir John and Lady Burgoyne
86. Sir Francis Deny
87. Sir William Rose
88. Sir Philip and Lady Pauncefote Duncombe and Miss Duncombe
89. Colonel Sir R. and Hon. Lady Loyd-Lindsay
90. General Sir Francis and Lady Seymour
91. Sir John and Lady Lubbock
92. Sir Arthur Sullivan
93. Mr. and Lady Selina Hervey
94. Mr. and Lady Margaret Graham
95. General Higginson, C.B., and Miss Higginson
96. Colonel and Mrs. Malet
97. General and Hon. Mrs. Cecil Ives
98. Colonel and Mrs. Haygarth
99. Colonel Arthur Collins
100. the Dean of Westminster and Mrs. Bradley and Miss Bradley
101. Mr. Herbert Malet
102. Mr. Arthur Malet
103. Mr. Francis Stephens
104. Mr. and Mrs. Warre Malet and Miss E. Warre Malet
105. Mr. Cosmo Romilly
106. Mr. Algernon Turnor
107. Mr. Owen Morshead
108. Mr. and Miss Biddulph
109. Mr. Ralli, M.P., and Miss Ralli
110. Mr. Henry Clarke
111. Mrs. and Miss Villiers
112. Mr. George Russell, M.P., Mrs. Ward and Misses Ward (2)
113. Mrs. Arthur Kennard
114. Mrs. Peel and Miss Peel
115. Mrs. Oakeley
116. Mr. Austin Lee
117. Mrs. and Miss Cavendish Bentinck
118. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Seymour
119. Mrs. and Miss Hervey
120. Mr. Alfred Denison
121. Mr. George Moreton
122. Mr. Augustus Hare
123. Mr. E. Hamilton
124. Mr. and Miss Munro
125. Mr. Conway Seymour
126. Mr. Willoughby Maycock
127. Mr. Henry Oppenheim
128. Mr. R. Bagot
129. Mr. C. Clifford, M.P.
130. Misses Cotes (2)
131. Mr. George Repton, M.P.
132. Mr. and Mrs. Leeky
133. Mr. C. Ford
134. Mr. Fitzroy
135. Mr. Long
136. Mr. and Mrs. Spottiswoode and Miss Spottiswoode
137. Mr. Biddulph

Bibliography

• TDoB'sR "The Duchess of Bedford's Reception." Morning Post 18 March 1885, Wednesday: 3 [of 8], Col. 5A. The British Newspaper Archive. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18850318/013/0003 (accessed November 2014).