Social Victorians/People/Long

Also Known As

• Family name: Long
• Viscount Long
  • Walter Hume Long, Viscount Long (4 June 1921 – 26 September 1924)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Friends

• Arthur James Balfour
• Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire
• Edward Saunderson (after 1905?)

Organizations

Walter Hume Long

• Harrow
• Christ Church, Oxford
• Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
• Conservative Member of Parliament

Timeline

1878 August 1, Walter Hume Long and Lady Doreen Long married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Walter Hume Long and Lady Doreen Long attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. (Walter Hume Long is #117 on the list of people who were present; Lady Doreen Long is #484.)

Sir William Ashburnham

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

Walter Hume Long

The Right Hon. W. H. Long, M.P., Walter Hume Long attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

• the Right Hon. W. H. Long, M.P., was dressed as "Brown velvet Cavalier, period Charles II., after a picture by Sir Peter Lely."
• "the Right Hon. W. Long (as cavalier Charles II. period)."
• "The Right Hon. W. M. Long, M.P., (brown velvet, Cavalier; period Charles II.)"

Painted between 1643 and 1670, the portrait (left) of Sir William Ashburnham is by Sir Peter Lely and has been in the collection of Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum since 1956. Samuel Pepys said that Sir William Ashburnham (c. 1604–1679) was an "experienced man and a cavalier."

Lady Doreen Long

Lady Doreen Long as Urania, Goddess of Astronomy. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Lady Doreen Long as dressed as Urania, Goddess of Astronomy.

Alexander Bassano's portrait (right) of "Dorothy Blanche ('Doreen', née Boyle), Viscountess Long as Urania, Goddess of Astronomy" in costume is photogravure #276 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lady Doreen Long as Urania Goddess of Astronomy" with a Long S in Goddess.

Newspaper Reports

• The Gentlewoman says she was an astronomer and Dawn, wearing a "skirt of gold and silver stripes, with gold and silver stars, and silver moon; bodice of gold and silver tissue, and cloak of pale blue, lined silver."
• "LADY DOREEN LONG, an astronomer, wore a very effective costume; the robe of cloth of gold and silver in wide stripes, embroidered in stars of gold on the silver stripe and stars of silver on the gold; the bodice was crossed with gold and silver tissue; the long cloak was of turquoise blue satin, lined with silver, and sprinkled all over with stars, and between the shoulders was a large sun beautifully embroidered in gold; the winged sleeves were of white gauze striped with gold; gold stars were placed erect on the shoulders; a large crescent moon in silver was placed on one side of the front of the robe; the sleeves were caught at the waist with stars, and the pile blue satin belt embroidered with them; she wore diamond stars in her hair."

Demographics

Nationality

• Walter Hume Long, English and Anglo-Irish

Family

• Walter Hume Long (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924)
• Lady Doreen (Dorothy Blanche) Boyle (c. 1860 – 7 June 1938)

1. Walter Long (26 July 1879 – 27 January 1917)
2. Hon. Victoria Florence de Burgh Long (10 August 1880 – 29 March 1920)
3. Doreen Ethel Nora Long (17 February 1884 – 8 May 1885)
4. Hon. Letttice Margaret Long (1 November 1885 – 1 September 1950)
5. Richard Eric Onslow Long, 3rd Viscount Long (22 August 1892 – 12 January 1967)

Notes and Questions

1. Lady Doreen Boyle Long had the honorific because of her father; she had it before 1921 when Walter Long was created viscount.