Social Victorians/People/Mildmay

Also Known As

• Family name: Mildmay
• Francis Bingham Mildmay
• Baron Mildmay of Flete, of Totnes, in the County of Devon
  • Francis Bingham Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete (20 November 1922 – 8 February 1947)
• Mr. F. B. Mildmay

Overview

F. B. Mildmay was a "well-known musical amateur," who on 26 July 1888 was practicing on the church organ of St. Andrews, Fulham, when he noticed that his friend, the 24-year-old Marcus Henry Milner, was marrying the 70-year-old Caroline, Duchess of Montrose.

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

• Marcus Henry Milner

Organizations

• Eton
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• House of Commons, 1885–1922
• Baring Brothers, merchant bank
• Liberal, 1885–
• Liberal Unionist
• Conservative, 1912–1947

Timeline

1888 July 26, Caroline Graham Stirling-Crawford and Marcus Henry Milner married. According to the Nottingham Evening Post of 31 July 1888,

How the news of the wedding first reached the friends not the least curious part of the story, which runs that Mr. Mildmay, the Liberal Unionist member for Totnes, who is a personal acquaintance the bridegroom, happened go to St. Andrew's to practice upon the organ at the time the ceremony was to take place, and, to his astonishment, saw his friend being married. The reason given at the church for the extreme quietude of the wedding was that there had recently been a death in one of the families.

1897 July 2, Mr. F. B. Mildmay attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1906 July 26, Francis Bingham Mildmay and Alice Lilian Grenfell married.

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

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Francis Bingham Mildmay (at 95) was dressed

• in a "military uniform of the time of Louis XV."
• in a "Military uniform of the time of Louis XV."
• as "Field-Marshal Count Charles of Batthyany" in the Austrian Court of Maria Theresa Quadrille.

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Residences

• Flete House, near Plymouth

Family

• Francis Bingham Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete (26 April 1861 – 8 February 1947)
• Alice Lilian Grenfell Mildmay ( – 22 March 1920)

1. Hon. Helen Winifred Mildmay (17 August 1907 – )
2. Anthony Bingham Mildmay, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete (14 April 1909 – 12 May 1950)