Social Victorians/People/Greville

Also Known As edit

  • Family name: Greville
  • The family name of the Earl of Warwick is also Greville.
  • Fulke Southwell Greville changed his name to Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent by Royal License (1866)[1]
  • 2nd Baron Greville (25 January 1883 – 2 December 1909)
  • 1st Baron Greville of Clonym (1869 – 25 January 1883)
    • Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent (15 December 1869 – 25 January 1883)[1]
    • Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent, Baroness Greville of Clonym
  • Lord Greville (called so in newspaper accounts of his political work as member of the House of Lords)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies edit

Timeline edit

1840 April 28, Fulke Southwell Greville and Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent married.[2]

1863 December 16, Beatrice Violet Graham and Algernon William Fulke Greviile married.[3]

1869 August 26, Hon. Mildred Charlotte Greville and Alexis Huchet, Marquis de la Bédoyère married.[4]

1870 August 17, Hon. George Frederick Greville and Cecil Aitcheson Hankey married; no issue.[5]

1871 October 24, Hon. Reginald James Macartney Greville-Nugent and Hon. Louisa Maud Yarde-Buller married.[6]

1882 June 5, Hon. Patrick Emilius John Greville-Nugent and Ermengarde Ogilvy married.[7]

1891 April 25, Ronald Henry Fulke Greville and Margaret Helen Anderson married.[8]

1897 July 2, Friday, Margaret (Mrs. Ronald) Greville attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

 
Dame Margaret Helen Greville (née Anderson) in costume as Mary Seton in the Elizabethan Procession. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

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

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Margaret (the Hon. Mrs. Ronald) Greville (at 298) was dressed as Mary Seton (usually misspelled in these as Seaton) in the Queen Elizabeth procession (according to the labeling in the National Portrait Gallery[9] and the Morning Post[10]). (But see the Hon. Mrs Greville, at 299, who is dressed differently.) The Gentlewoman says "Mary Seaton, in which, followed in [Lady Edmonstone's Mary Queen of Scots'] wake."[11]:p. 32, Col. 3c

Alice Hughes's portrait of "Dame Margaret Helen Greville (née Anderson) as Mary Seaton [sic] in the Elizabethan Procession" in costume is photogravure #51 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[12] The printing on the portrait says, "The Hon. Mrs. Ronald Greville as Mary Seaton in the Elizabethan procession," with a Long S in procession.[9]

It seems likely that her husband, Ronald Greville, was present, but as yet he is not identified.

Mary Seton (1542–1615) was one of the four Marys who were Ladies-in-Waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots; she was her hairdresser. She left the queen's household in c. 1585 and died at the Convent of Saint-Pierre at Reims, a nun.[13]

Demographics edit

  • Nationality: British[14]

Residences edit

See Lady Beatrice Violet Graham Greville for a list of residences for them and then for her alone.

  • Westmeath, Ireland
  • London

Family edit

  • Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville of Clonym (17 February 1821 – 25 January 1883)[1]
  • Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent, Baroness Greville of Clonym (May 1814 – 17 January 1883)[2]
    • Hon. Mildred Charlotte Greville ( – 1 August 1906)
    • Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville (11 February 1841 – 2 December 1909)
    • Hon. George Frederick Greville (11 September 1842 – 11 May 1897)
    • Hon. Robert Southwell Greville-Nugent (26 March 1847 – 10 February 1912)
    • Hon. Reginald James Macartney Greville-Nugent (27 November 1848 – 28 February 1878)
    • Hon. Patrick Emilius John Greville-Nugent (6 August 1852 – 27 February 1925)


  • Beatrice Violet Graham (13 February 1842 – 29 February 1932)[3]
  • Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville (11 February 1841 – 2 December 1909)[15]
    1. Hon. Ronald Henry Fulke Greville (14 October 1864 – 5 April 1908)[16]
    2. Hon. Camilla Dagmar Violet Greville (28 September 1866? – d. 7 July 1938)
    3. Hon. Lilian Veronique Greville (1869–1956)
  • Unknown woman with Algernon Greville or William Henry John North () with Lady Violet Greville[17]
    1. Or perhaps 2 children, one with each
    2. George Frederick Greville


  • Ronald Henry Fulke Greville (1864 – 5 April 1908)[18]
  • Margaret Helen Anderson (20 September 1863[19] – 15 September 1942)[8]

Notes and Questions edit

  1. Where was Ronald Greville; was he present but not mentioned? A Mr. Greville attended, accompanying Lady M. Greville, but Ronald would likely to have been called Hon.?
  2. Margaret Helen Anderson's parentage was complex; I don't know yet how much was known at the time. Her mother was Helen Anderson, who was married to William Anderson, but her father was William McEwan, who owned the brewery where William Anderson worked.[19] Helen Anderson and William McEwan married in 1885 shortly after the death of William Anderson, when Margaret Helen Anderson was 21.[19]

Footnotes edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville of Clonym." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Lady Beatrice Violet Graham." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  4. "Hon. Mildred Charlotte Greville." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  5. "Hon. George Frederick Greville." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  6. "Hon. Reginald James Macartney Greville-Nugent." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  7. "Hon. Patrick Emilius John Greville-Nugent." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Margaret Helen Anderson." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  9. 9.0 9.1 "Dame Margaret Helen Greville (née Anderson) as Mary Seaton in the Elizabethan Procession." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158405/Dame-Margaret-Helen-Greville-ne-Anderson-as-Mary-Seaton-in-the-Elizabethan-Procession.
  10. "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.
  11. “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.
  12. "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.
  13. "Mary Seton". Wikipedia. 2021-08-26. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Seton&oldid=1040773736.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seton.
  14. "Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville". Wikipedia. 2020-12-28. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Algernon_Greville,_2nd_Baron_Greville&oldid=996822240. 
  15. "Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  16. "Ronald Greville". Wikipedia. 2020-12-28. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronald_Greville&oldid=996669017. 
  17. "Violet, Lady Greville". Wikipedia. 2021-01-02. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violet,_Lady_Greville&oldid=997817023. 
  18. "Hon. Ronald Henry Fulke Greville." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 "Margaret Greville". Wikipedia. 2021-03-11. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Greville&oldid=1011495234.