Social Victorians/1886-03-09 Russian Embassy Reception

Dinner and Reception at the Russian Embassy

Logistics

• 1886 March 9, Tuesday
• Hosted by the Russian Ambassador Baron Georges de Staal and Madame de Staal
• Russian Embassy on Chesham Place

Dinner

Who Was Present

1. The Duchess of Edinburgh
2. Earl and Countess Spencer
3. the Earl of Rosebery
4. the Earl of Kenmare
5. the Earl and Countess of Cork
6. the Earl of Northbrook and Lady Emma Baring
7. Lady Isabel Boyle
8. Count and Countess d'Aubigny
9. M. Hengel-müller
10. Lord Gerard
11. Lord Rothschild
12. General Sir Francis Seymour
13. Sir Philip Currie
14. Mr. and Lady Selina Hervey, and Miss Bidwell
15. Count N. Adlerberg and M. Bouténeff, Secretaries of the Embassy

Present as an Attendant

In attendance on the Duchess of Edinburgh

• Lady Emma Osborne

Reception

Who Was Present

1. the Sultan of Johore and suite

Corps Diplomatique

1. The Turkish Ambassador
2. the German Ambassador and Countess Hatzfeldt
3. the Italian Ambassador
4. Madame Waddington
5. the Swedish Minister
6. the Netherlands Minister
7. the Belgian Minister
8. the Chinese Minister and Marchioness Tseng
9. the Japanese Minister and Madame Kawase
10. the Brazilian Minister and Baroness de Penedo
11. the Greek Minister
12. the Persian Minister
13. the Roumanian Minister and Princess Ghica
14. the Danish Minister
15. the Portuguese Minister
16. the United States Minister
17. Count Pourtales
18. Baron Plessen
19. M. G. J. de Osme
20. Morel Bey
21. Mikayl Khan
22. Baroness de Brienen and Madlle. de Brienen
23. Count and Countess Bentinck
24. Countess Königsmark
25. Mr. Ohyama
26. Rev. Eugene and Mrs. Smirnoff
27. Mr. and Mrs. Schlesinger and Miss Schlesinger
28. Madlle. Heim
29. Commander and Mrs. Chadwick
30. Baron and Baroness de Barreto
31. Rev. Eugene Soloviev
32. Vicomte de St. Genys
33. M. J. F. du Bose and Madlle. du Bose
34. M. Gosch
35. Madame d'Arcos
36. M. Adelborg
37. M. Bapst
38. Count, Kinsky
39. &c.

General Company

1. the Duchess of Bedford and the Marchioness of Tavistock
2. the Duchess of Leeds and Lady Harriet Godolphin Osborne
3. Julia Marchioness of Tweeddale
4. the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford
5. the Earl and Countess of Iddesleigh
6. the Earl of Morley
7. the Dowager Countess of Airlie and Lady Griselda Ogilvy
8. the Countess of Dunraven
9. the Countess of Malmesbury
10. Julia Countess of Jersey and Mr. Brandling
11. Viscountess Midleton and Hon. Albinia Brodrick
12. Viscountess Curzon
13. Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill
14. Lord and Lady Colville and Hon. Miss Colville
15. Lord and Lady Sudeley
16. Lady Margaret Browne
17. Lord Alcester
18. Lady Randolph Churchill
19. Lady Sandhurst and Lady Alice Gore
20. Lord and Lady Charles Beresford
21. Lady Howard de Walden
22. Lord Belmont
23. Lord and Lady Cremorne
24. Lord and Lady Esher
25. Hon. Lady Cotterell and Miss Cotterell
26. Lady Goldsmid
27. Lady Abercromby
28. Lady Harcourt
29. Lady Cross and Misses Cross (2)
30. Lady Tweedmouth
31. Lady Sykes
32. Lady Henry Gordon-Lennox
33. Lady Conyers and Hon. Miss Lane Fox
34. Lord Sherborne
35. Hon. Lady Campbell
36. Lady Elizabeth Romilly and Miss Romilly
37. Lady and Miss Antrobus
38. Lady Hothfield and Miss Stracey
39. Lady Walter Scott and Miss Evelyn Scott
40. Lady Walter Campbell
41. Lord Oranmore and Hon Misses Browne Guthrie
42. the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
43. Colonel Hon. Henry Byng and Miss Byng
44. Hon. Henry Stonor
45. Captain Hon. H. Monson
46. Colonel Hon. William and Mrs. Colville and Miss Colville
47. Hon. Sir Henry Ponsonby and Miss Ponsonby
48. the Right Hon. Sir Henry Elliot
49. Hon. Mrs. William Lowther
50. the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Erskine May and Miss Laughton
51. Hon. Francis Villiers
52. Hon. Mrs. Henry Edwardes
53. the Solicitor-General and Lady Davey and Miss Davey
54. Colonel and Lady Blanche Edwardes
55. Sir Julian and Lady Pauncefote
56. Sir Edmund and Lady Lechmere
57. Sir Algernon Borthwick
58. General Sir Daniel and Lady Lysons
59. Sir Maurice and Lady Fitzgerald
60. Sir Arthur Sullivan and Lady Sullivan (?)
61. Sir Halliday and Lady Macartney
62. Sir Oscar Clayton
63. Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan
64. Sir Robert Abercromby
65. Sir James Carmichael
66. Sir Arthur Hayter
67. Sir Villiers Lister and Miss Lister
68. Sir A. Savile Lumley
69. Sir Frederick Leighton
70. Sir Rivers Wilson
71. Sir E. Hertslett
72. General Morris
73. General and Miss Duff
74. Colonel H. M. Hozier
75. Colonel Stephens
76. Colonel Arthur Collins
77. Major and Mrs. Bigge
78. Captain St. John Mildmay
79. Captain and Mrs. E. Mildmay
80. Captain Shaw
81. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Vincent
82. Dr. Rolfe
83. Mr. Shaw Lefevre
84. Mrs. Dudley Ward
85. Mrs. Leigh
86. Mrs. Mundella
87. Mr. John Romilly
88. Mrs. and Miss Farquhar
89. Mr. Alfred Farquhar
90. Mr. Francis Stephens
91. Mr. Harcourt
92. Mr. and Mrs. W. Langdale
93. Mr. George Greville
94. Mrs. Douglas Murray
95. Mrs. Osborne Morgan
96. Mr. Austin Lee
97. Mr. Combe Tennant
98. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Lane
99. Mr. Saunderson
100. Mr. Townley
101. Mrs. Hugh Wyndham and Miss Wyndham
102. Mrs. and Miss Mello
103. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson
104. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Synge
105. Madame de Bunsen
106. Mr. and Mrs. Surtees
107. Mr. and Mrs. James Stern
108. Mrs. Bischoffsheim
109. Mrs. Edwards
110. Mr. Mitford
111. Mrs. Washington Hibbert
112. Mrs. and Miss Tennant
113. Mrs. and Miss Higgins
114. Mrs. and Miss Singleton
115. Mr. W. Gillett
116. Mr. W. Jolliffe
117. Mr. Curzon
118. Mr. Dallison
119. Mr. Moreton Frewen
120. Mr. Edward Hamilton
121. Mr. Massey Shaw
122. Mr. Charles Jerningham
123. Mr. Fellowes
124. Mr. and Mrs. Woodford
125. Mr. and Mrs. Toler
126. Mr. Hamilton Aïde
127. Mrs. and Miss Romain
128. Mr. and Mrs. Baldock
129. Mr. Petre
130. Mrs. and Miss Lindsay Antrobus
131. Mr. and Mrs. Post
132. Mr. Henry Oppenheim
133. Mrs. Cholmondeley
134. Mr. Edgar Vincent
135. Mrs. Ronalds, Fanny Ronalds
136. Mr. and Mrs. George Forbes
137. Mrs. Beckett Denison and Miss Leslie
138. Mrs. Richardson
139. Mr. Bennett
140. Mr. Thorndyke Rice
141. Mr. and Mrs. Staniforth and Miss Staniforth
142. Mrs. Edmund Vaughan

Bibliography

• CCTRE "Court Circular: The Russian Embassy." Morning Post 10 March 1886, Wednesay: 5 [of 8], Col. 7A. The British Newspaper Archive. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18860310/065/0005 (accessed November 2014).