Social Victorians/People/Falmouth

Also Known As

• Family name: Boscawen
• Viscount Falmouth
  • Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth (29 August 1852 – 6 November 1889)
  • Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth (6 November 1889 – 1 October 1918)
• Viscountess Falmouth
  • Mary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton Boscawen (29 August 1852 – 6 November 1889)
  • Kathleen Douglas-Pennant Boscawen (6 November 1889 – )
• Dowager Viscountess
  • Mary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton Boscawen (6 November 1889 – 20 November 1891)

Timeline

1886 October 19, Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen and the Hon. Kathleen Douglas-Pennant married.

1889 November 6, Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen succeeded to the title Viscount Falmouth.

1897 July 2, Friday, Lord and Lady Falmouth attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. (Evelyn, Viscount Falmouth is #172 on the list of people who were present; Kathleen, Lady Falmouth is #471.)

Kathleen, Viscountess Falmouth as Madame Recamier. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Madame Recamier, by Jacques-Louis David, 1800

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

The Times lists Lord and Lady Falmouth as present at the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Kathleen, Lady Falmouth

Alice Hughes's portrait of "Kathleen (née Douglas-Pennant), Viscountess Falmouth as Madame Recamier" in costume is photogravure #95 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Viscountess Falmouth as Madame Recamier," with a Long S in Viscountess.

The famous 1800 portrait of Madame Juliet Récamier (right) by Jacques-Louis David hangs in the Louvre. Kathleen, Viscountess Falmouth's dress and hair look like they might have been inspired by this painting, although the shawl and jewelry are quite different.

The Star — Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth — by "Spy," Vanity Fair 6 January 1898

Evelyn, 7th Viscount Falmouth

Evelyn, Viscount Falmouth sat at Table 6 in the first seating for supper, suggesting prominence among this group of very prominent people. No description of his costume was published in any newspaper account of the ball. His caricature portrait (right) by Leslie Ward ("Spy") was published in the 6 January 1898 issue of Vanity Fair as Number 700 in its "Men of the Day" series, giving at least a sense of what he looked like.

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Family

• Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth (18 March 1819 – 6 November 1889)
• Mary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton Boscawen, Baroness le Despenser (– 20 November 1891)

1. Mary Elizabeth Frances Catherine Boscawen (1846 – 21 January 1916)
2. Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth (24 July 1847 – 1 October 1918)
3. Hugh le Despenser Boscawen (28 February 1849 – 8 April 1908)
4. Edith Maria Boscawen (1851 – 24 September 1906)
5. Mabel Emma Boscawen (1855 – 26 October 1927)
6. John Richard de Clare Boscawen (19 December 1860 – 12 December 1915)

• Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth (24 July 1847 – 1 October 1918)
• Kathleen Douglas-Pennant Boscawen (1861 – 29 December 1953)

1. Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (5 August 1887 – 18 February 1962)
2. George Edward Boscawen (6 December 1888 – 6 June 1918)
3. Vere Douglas Boscawen (3 August 1890 – 29 October 1914)
4. Mildmay Thomas Boscawen (5 February 1892 – 13 November 1958)
5. Kathleen Pamela Mary Corona Boscawen (29 April 1902 – 25 June 1995)