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Also Known As edit

  • Family name: Somerville
  • Lord Athlumney
  • James Somerville, Baron Meredyth, M.P.
  • Baronet Somerville, of Somerville, co. Meath [Peerage of Ireland, created 1748]
    • James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 6th Baronet Somerville (7 December 1873[1] – 8 January 1929)[2]
  • Baron Meredyth, of Dollardstown, co. Meath (UK peerage)[3]
    • William Meredyth Somerville, 1st Baron Meredyth (1802 – 7 December 1873)[4]
    • James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron Meredyth (7 December 1873 – 8 January 1929)
  • Baron Athlumney, of Somerville and Dollarstown, co. Meath [Peerage of Ireland, created 1863][5]
    • William Meredyth Somerville, 1st Baron Athlumney (1802 – 7 December 1873)[4]
    • James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney (7 December 1873 – 8 January 1929)[5]

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies edit

Organizations edit

James Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney edit

  • Harrow[2]
  • House of Lords, as Baron Meredyth
  • Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Royal Canadians (1882)[2]
  • Lieutenant, Coldstream Guards (1886)[2]

Timeline edit

1896, Dongola Expedition[2]

1897 July 2, Friday, Lord Athlumney attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1900, Boer War[2]

1919 July 30, James Somerville, Baron Athlumney and Margery Boan married.[6]

 
James Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney in costume as Prince Metternich at the time of Maria Theresa. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

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

James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney (at 367) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. Lord Athlumney was dressed as Prince Metternich in the Austrian Court of Maria Theresa Quadrille.[7][8] [9]:p. 8, Col. 1b

  • "Lord Athlumney (Austrian officer's costume), white cloth pantaloons, trimmed gold braid and cord; white cloth tunic trimmed gold; sling sachet trimmed brown fur."[10]:p. 34, Col. 1c

Lafayette's portrait of "James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney as Prince Metternich at the time of Maria Theresa" in costume is photogravure #183 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[11] The printing on the portrait says, "Lord Athlumney as Prince Metternich — temp. Maria Theresa."[12]

It is not perfectly clear which Prince Metternich is meant here, and Baron Athumney may not have been concerned with which particular individual would have been present in Marie-Thérèse's court at what time. Franz Georg Graf von Metternich-Winneburg (1746–1818) seems to have been in Vienna beginning in the late 1760s,[13] but he was a Graf, not a prince, which perhaps makes him more comparable to an earl in the U.K.[14] His father, Johann Hugo Franz vvon Metternich-Winneburg, died in 1750, so would have been in Marie-Thérèse's court only early in her reign and was also a Graf and not a prince.[15]

Demographics edit

  • Nationality: Irish[3]

Family edit

  • James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron Meredyth (23 March 1865 – 8 January 1929)[2]
  • Enid Boan — they were not married to each other
  1. David Peter (1 March 1919 – 8 August 2001)
  • Margery Boan ( – 10 July 1946)[6]

Notes and Questions edit

  1. David Peter was born to Enid Boan nearly 5 months before James, Baron Meredyth married Margery Boan, her sister.

Footnotes edit

  1. ↑ "William Meredyth Somerville, 1st Baron Meredyth." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron Meredyth." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "James Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney". Wikipedia. 2020-04-16. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Somerville,_2nd_Baron_Athlumney&oldid=951366867.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Somerville,_2nd_Baron_Athlumney.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "William Somerville, 1st Baron Athlumney". Wikipedia. 2021-10-04. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Somerville,_1st_Baron_Athlumney&oldid=1048114932.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Somerville,_1st_Baron_Athlumney.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Baron Athlumney". Wikipedia. 2021-11-08. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Athlumney&oldid=1054102836.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Athlumney.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Margery Boan." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  7. ↑ "Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House." Morning Post Saturday 3 July 1897: 7 [of 12], Col. 4a–8 Col. 2b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970703/054/0007.
  8. ↑ "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12, Cols. 1a–4c The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
  9. ↑ “Ball at Devonshire House.” Evening Mail 05 July 1897 Monday: 8 [of 8], Col. 1a–4c [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003187/18970705/070/0008.
  10. ↑ “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.
  11. ↑ "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
  12. ↑ "Lord Athlumney as Prince Metternich." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158546/James-Herbert-Gustavus-Meredyth-Somerville-2nd-Baron-Athlumney-as-Prince-Metternich-at-the-time-of-Maria-Theresa.
  13. ↑ Biographie, Deutsche. "Metternich, Franz Georg Fürst von - Deutsche Biographie". www-deutsche--biographie-de.translate.goog (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  14. ↑ "Graf". Wikipedia. 2021-07-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graf&oldid=1034393465.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graf.
  15. ↑ "Metternich-Winneburg, Johann Hugo Franz von 1710-1750." "67230620". viaf.org. Retrieved 2021-12-10. https://viaf.org/viaf/67230620/.
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