Social Victorians/People/Brassey

Also Known As

• Family name: Brassey
• 1st Baronet Brassey [U.K.]
  • Major Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (29 November 1922 – 22 October 1958)
• 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe
  • Major Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe ( 26 January 1938 – 22 October 1958)

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Residences

• Henry Arthur Brassey: Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent

Family

• Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870)
• Maria Farringdon Harrison ( – 3 January 1877)
  1. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (11 February 1836 – 23 February 1918)
  2. John Brassey (16 June 1839 – 16 June 1839)
  3. Henry Arthur Brassey (14 July 1840 – 13 May 1891)
  4. Albert Brassey (22 February 1844 – 7 January 1918)

• Henry Arthur Brassey (14 July 1840 – 13 May 1891)
• Anna Harriet Stevenson ( – 15 July 1898)
  1. Gwendoline Brassey ( – 26 July 1947)
  2. Beatrice Mary Brassey ( – 24 March 1951)
  3. Ruby Mabelle Brassey ()
  4. Arthur Albert Brassey (4 March 1868 – 1 January 1869)
  5. Major Leonard (Henry Leonard Campbell) Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (7 March 1870 – 22 October 1958)
  6. Ethel Anna Maria Brassey (c. 1871 – 23 April 1880)
  7. Florence Maud Brassey (c. 1872 – 15 June 1875)
  8. Hilda Madeline Brassey (16 June 1872 – 29 December 1971)
  9. Evelyn Mildred Brassey (c. 1874 – 18 April 1957)
  10. Lt.-Col. Harold Ernest Brassey (29 March 1877 – 16 July 1916)
  11. Lt.-Col. Edgar Hugh Brassey (6 April 1878 – 11 April 1946)
  12. Lt.-Col. Edwin Perceval Brassey (2 October 1882 – 15 March 1973)

• Major Leonard (Henry Leonard Campbell) Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (7 March 1870 – 22 October 1958)
• Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (15 January 1874 – 19 November 1946)
  1. Ronald Henry Brassey (21 May 1895 – 29 May 1895)
  2. Captain Hon. Cecil Henry Brassey (3 October 1896 – 11 September 1949)
  3. Lieutenant Gerard Charles Brassey (28 December 1898 – 27 August 1918)
  4. John Leonard Brassey (1903 – 9 March 1903)
  5. Lt.-Col. Bernard Thomas Brassey, 2nd Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (15 February 1905 – 28 June 1967)
  6. Major Hon. Peter Esmé Brassey (5 December 1907 – 14 March 1995)

• Hilda Madeline Brassey (16 June 1872 – 29 December 1971)
• Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond (30 December 1870 – 7 May 1935)
  1. Lady Amy Gwendoline Gordon-Lennox (5 May 1894 – 27 April 1975)
  2. Hon. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (15 August 1895 – 5 September 1895)
  3. Lady Doris Hilda Gordon-Lennox (6 September 1896 – c. 8 February 1980)
  4. Lieutenant Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington (26 January 1899 – 24 August 1919)
  5. Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond (5 February 1904 – 2 November 1989)

• Evelyn Mildred Brassey (c. 1874 – 18 April 1957)
• Granville Charles Gresham Leveson-Gower (15 September 1865 – 4 December 1948)
  1. Major Richard Henry Gresham Leveson-Gower (27 November 1894 – 7 February 1982)
  2. Lt. Ronald Charles Gresham Granville Leveson-Gower (23 May 1896 – 1 August 1917)
  3. Thomas Christopher Gresham Leveson-Gower (19 June 1903 – 1992)
  4. Major Alan John Gresham Leveson-Gower (22 September 1909 – 14 August 1974)

Relations

• Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox was the daughter and Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox the son of Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond.

Organizations

• Henry Arthur Brassey: M.P., Sandwich (1868–1885)

Timeline

1893 June 8, Hilda Madeline Brassey and Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox married.

1894 February 3, Evelyn Mildred Brassey and Granville Charles Gresham Leveson-Gower married.

1894 June 30, Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey and Lady Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox married.

1899 April 20, Beatrice Mary Brassey and Thomas Stacey married.

1897 July 2, L. Brassey, Mr. Harold Brassey, Mr. Brassey, and Lady Violet Brassey attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1899 December 6, Lilian Maude Brassey and Captain William Scott married.

1902 May 27, Gwendoline Brassey and Colonel Philip Blencowe Cookson married.

1906 July 25, Harold Ernest Brassey and Lady Norah Hely Hutchinson married.

1911 January 26, Edgar Hugh Brassey and Margaret Harriet Trefusis married.

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

L. Brassey (at 252), Mr. Harold Brassey (at 253), Mr. Brassey, Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey (at 530), Lady Violet Brassey (at 531) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Mr. Leonard Brassey and Lady Violet Brassey

Mr. Brassey and Lady Violet Brassey are Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey (at 530) and Lady Violet Brassey (at 531). Lady Violet Brassey was Juliet, in a "gown in blue brocade with gold sleeves, white satin embroidery over-sleeves, and gold waistband to match."

• Leonard Brassey was dressed as Apollo, wearing the same costume as Mr. Leopold Brassey, below, "only light blue and gold" rather than white and gold.
• "Mr. Leonard Brassey (Apollo), same as above [in this case, below, Mr. Leopold Brassey] only light blue and gold."

Mr. Harold Brassey

Mr. Harold Brassey (at 253) is Harold Ernest Brassey, Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey's brother. Harold Brassey was a Yeoman in the Queen Elizabeth procession.

• "The two heralds who preceded the Queen were Mr. Harold Brassey and Mr. E. Villiers, while Lord Rothschild, in a splendid costume of the time, walked between them."
• He was one of the six halberdiers attending on the Queen, their costumes copied from Holbein's picture at Hampton Court.

Mr. Leopold Brassey

Mr. Leopold or L. Brassey (at 252) was in the Duchess procession. Like Leonard Brassey, Leopold Brassey was dressed as Apollo, although the costumes themselves were not identical.

• "Mr. Leopold Brassey, as Apollo, in the time of Louis XV., wore a white leather cuirasse embossed and edged with gold, and with a gold sun in front. From this depended a short pale yellow skirt of silk, the breeches and over sleeves being embroidered with gold. A gold laurel wreath and a gold lyre indicated the Apollo of the time of the pleasure-loving Louis and Madame du Barry."
• "Mr. Leopold Brassey (Apollo), white leather cuirass embossed and edged with gold, with a gold sun on front of cuirass; pale yellow silk skirt, breeches, and over sleeves, embroidered with gold; cloak, orange silk, with border of pale yellow and embroidered with gold; orange leather sandal boots."

Questions and Notes

1. Thomas Brassey was a railroad magnate.
2. Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey was known as Leonard Brassey, at least in the 1925 London City Directory: Leonard Brassey, Bart., M.P., lived at 42 Upper Grosvenor Street and was married to Violet.
3. The Gentlewoman article says that both a Mr. Leonard Brassey and a Mr. Leopold Brassey were present. If Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey used Leonard rather than Henry as his forename, then he might be Mr. Leonard Brassey. We know he was present because his wife is easy to identify. Mr. Leopold Brassey does not seem to show up in any genealogies for this family.