Social Victorians/People/Florence Rawdon-Hastings Chetwynd

Also Known As

• Family name: Paget, Astley, and then Chetwynd
• Florence Cecilia Paget
• Florence Paget Rawdon-Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings
• Florence Chetwynd
• Lady Chetwynd
• The "Pocket Venus"

Demographics

• Nationality: British
• Religion: Roman Catholic

Residences

• 36 Curzon Street, London
• 23 Portman Street, Marylebone, London (by the 1901 census)

Family

• Florence Cecilia Paget Rawdon-Hastings Chetwynd (August 1842 – 3 February 1907)
• Henry Rawdon-Hastings (22 July 1842 – 10 November 1868)
• George Chetwynd, 4th Baronet of Brocton Hall (31 May 1849 – 10 March 1917)

1. George Guy Chetwynd, 5th Bart. (6 December 1874 – 27 August 1935)
2. Lilian Florence Maud Chetwynd (10 March 1876 – 20 February 1962)
3. Olive Nina Mary Chetwynd (24 February 1877 – 15 October 1946), living with Florence Chetwynd in the 1901 census

Organizations

• Marlborough House Set

Timeline

1864 July 16, scandal when Florence Paget left Henry Chaplin for Henry Rawdon-Hastings and married him the same day. She left Chaplin waiting in a carriage, thinking she was shopping for her wedding, or traveled to the store by herself (depending on the story), and walked through the store and out the back, to meet Rawdon-Hastings.

1864 July 16, Henry Rawdon-Hastings and Florence Paget married.

1868 November 10, Henry Rawdon-Hastings died at 26 years old, and the marquessate ended.

1870 June 9, Florence Rawdon-Hastings and George Chetwynd married at St. James' Church, Westminster, London, Middlesex.

1885, George Chetwynd and Lord Lonsdale got into a fistfight over Lily Langtry in Rotten Row.

1892, George Chetwynd on a whim sold his London residence, 36 Curzon Street, to George Alexander Baird.

1897 June 28, Monday, according to the Morning Post, Florence Chetwynd, Marchioness of Hastings was invited to the 28 June Queen's Garden Party, the official end of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London.

1897 July 2, Florence Chetwynd, Marchioness of Hastings, attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball with a Miss Chetwynd.

1898 February 20, Lilian Florence Maud Chetwynd and Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey married.

1900 November 7, Lilian Florence Maud Chetwynd Paget and Henry Cyril Paget were divorced "after she obtained a decree of nullity of marriage."

1901, by this time, Florence Chetwynd and George Chetwynd had separate residences in London, per 1901 census.

1901 December 11, Lilian Florence Maud Chetwynd Paget and John Francis Grey Gilliat married.

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

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Florence Chetwynd, Marchioness of Hastings (at 426) sat at Table 11 in the first supper seating.

Florence, Marchioness of Hastings attended with Miss Chetwynd (at 427) — either Lilian Florence Maud Chetwynd or Olive Nina Mary Chetwynd. Lilian Chetwynd would have been 21 and Olive Chetwynd 20 years old at the time of the ball.

George, Baron and Baroness Hastings also attended and are treated on the Hastings page.

Questions and Notes

1. Olive Chetwynd never married.
2. Where did Lilian Florence Maud Chetwynd Paget live between her divorce from Henry Cyril Paget (or the point at which she stopped living with him) and her marriage to John Francis Grey Gilliat?