Social Victorians/People/Queen Victoria

Also Known As

• Victoria Regina
• Family name: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Demographics

• Nationality: English

Family

• Victoria
• Albert, Prince Consort

1. Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, "Vicky," German Empress, Empress Frederick
2. Albert Edward, "Teddy," King Edward VII
3. Alice Maud Mary, Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse
4. Alfred Ernest Albert, "Affie": Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (24 May 1866 – 30 July 1900) and Gotha (2 August 1893 – 30 July 1900)
5. Helena Augusta Victoria, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
6. Louise Caroline Alberta, Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, Duchess of Argyle
7. Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
8. Leopold George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany
9. Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, Princess Henry of Battenberg

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Organizations

Royal Horse Guard

Numbers on a table in the article on the Royal Horse Guards in Wikipedia, which does not have an appropriate citation, says that on 1 July 1897, the Royal Horse Guard had 406 members and the Total Household had 1,234. The total number of the Royal Horse Guards may have been 60–70 less because some were under-aged or trainees. The regiment was called The Blues beginning in 1877.

• Commanding Officer:
• Colonel-in-Chief: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
• Colonel
  • 1869–1885: Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn
  • 1885–1895: Sir Patrick Grant
  • 1895–1907: Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley

Household

Positions in the Queen's Household, according to David Cannadine,

were not the great offices of state such as Lord High Constable or Earl Marshal, which were held by grandees and were largely honorary. Nor were they political appointments such as Lord Chamberlain or Lord-in-Waiting, which changed with every government. Rather, they were the full-time court offices such as Private Secretary, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Master of the Ceremonies, and Comptroller of the Household, or the more humble positions of Equerry or Lady-in-Waiting. From the 1870s onwards, the nature and importance of these offices was transformed. Sir Henry Ponsonby effectively created the post of Private Secretary to the Sovereign in its modern guise. ... The new imperial and ceremonial image of the monarchy required planning and organization on an unprecedented scale. The palaces, pictures, libraries, and archives of he sovereign needed extensive reform and restoration in the aftermath of late-Victorian neglect. The extended families of Victoria, Edward VII, and George V meant a proliferation of junior royal households which themselves needed to be staffed and administered. And the inevitable result, despite occasional attempts at economy, was an expanding royal bureaucracy. ...

Almost invariably, such positions were filled by close relatives of peers.

Master of the Household: Cannadine says, "Lord Edward Pelham Clinton was brother of the sixth Duke of Newcastle, and was Master of the Household from 1894–1901."

Officers Appointed by Lord Chamberlain's Warrant

Gentlemen Ushers Daily Waiters

1832 25 July	Clifford, Sir A.W.J.
1836 21 Oct.	Lyster, J.
1837 10 Jan.	Martins, W.
1840 12 June	des Voeux, H.W.
1859 1 Feb.	Ponsonby, Hon. S.C.B.
1860 10 Sept.	Anson, E.H.
1874 13 June	Phipps, C.E.
1876 1 Oct.	Macgregor, A.
1877 17 Mar.	Knollys, Sir W.T.
1883 28 June	Drummond, Hon. Sir J.R.
1895 16 Dec.	Biddulph, Sir M.A.S.
1899 14 Nov.	Eliot, Hon. C.G.C.

Assistant Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter

1831 6 Oct.	Duff Gordon, Sir A.C.
1872 10 Nov.	Campbell, F.

Extra Gentlemen Usher Daily Waiter

1850 29 Jan.	Taylor, W.
1855 5 Apr.	Macdonald, N.H.
1857 9 Dec.	Ponsonby, Hon. S.C.B.
1892 13 July	Hood, Hon. A.N.

Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters

1798 29 July	Lewis, W.
1805 22 Mar.	Legge, Hon. H.
1819 6 Jan.	Randall, S.
1829 30 Mar.	Strachan, J.
1833 23 Apr.	Greville, H.W.
1833 20 May	Green, J.G.
1836 21 Oct.	Fitzgerald de Ros, Hon. W.L.L.
1837 10 Jan.	Diggle, C.
1838 11 June	Montgomery, A.
1839 7 June	Hobhouse, E.
1844 27 Dec.	Sackville West, Hon. M.
1852 20 Mar.	Taylor, W.
1852 19 July	Stephens, H.S.
1854 24 Feb.	Bedford, R.T.
1854 25 May	Howard Vyse, G.C.E.A.R.
1862 30 June	Ross, W.
1862 27 Oct.	Nelson, C.G.
1868 13 Mar.	Knollys, F.
1873 19 Mar.	Somerset, R.G.H.
1874 2 Feb.	Wylde, C.
1878 29 Aug.	Loftus, A.J.
1883 23 Apr.	Stonor, Hon. H.J.
1884 22 Jan.	FitzClarence, Hon. A.
1890 6 June	Innes Ker, C.J.
1892 30 Apr.	Collins, A.
1895 18 May	Taylor, B.
1896 15 Apr.	Hay, Hon. A.
1899 14 Nov.	Tufnell, W.F.

Extra Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter

1861 2 Feb.	Green, J.G.
1899 1 Jan.	Tufnell, W.F.

Gentlemen Ushers of Privy Chamber

1808 31 Oct.	Master, W.C.
1830 18 Dec.	Byng, Hon. F.G.
1831 23 Mar.	Heneage, C.F.
1834 12 Mar.	Smith, Sir J.M.F.
1868 21 Nov.	West, A.E.
1871 14 June	Erskine, H.D.
1874 3 Dec.	Cust, L.
1875 26 Mar.	Stopford, W.J.
1878 21 Mar.	Seymour, C.F.C.
1885 13 June	Bagot, Hon. W.
1887 20 Apr.	Larking, C.
1888 7 May	West, H.C.G.

Grooms of Privy Chamber

1802 18 May	Fowle, W.C.
1818 12 Aug.	Beresford, W.M.J.
1832 21 Apr.	Boyle, C.E.W.
1836 6 May	Blackwood, A.J.
1839 1 Nov.	Paget, S.H.
1840 3 Mar.	Harris, T.N.
1852 20 Mar.	Sackville West, Hon. M.
1852 19 July	Randall, S.
1859 16 Feb.	Purves, J.H.
1860 31 Mar.	Campbell, J.F.
1862 2 oct.	Claremont, E.S.
1867 3 July	Noel, Hon. R.B.W.
1871 14 Jan.	Eliot, Hon. C.G.C.
1874 8 Jan.	Bontein, J.
1874 16 Feb.	Philips, N.G.
1884 1 Nov.	Royle, A.
1890 25 July	Drummond, M.
1893 1 Oct.	Cuffe, Hon. O.F.S.
1899 14 Nov.	Knollys, Sir F.

Sergeants at Arms

1820 6 May	Peacock, J.A.
1820 11 July	Strubel, G.
182420 July	Sisson, C.
1824 18 Dec.	Parton, T.
1825 13 Nov.	Moule, J.
1827 5 May	Browell, E.M.
1829 5 June	Gordon, E.
1832 21 Jan.	Worrall, H.
1846 16 Aug.	Lyttelton, Hon. S.
1847 8 Jan.	Stephens, H.S.
1851 18 June	Campbell, Sir A.
1853 1 June	Macleod, N.
1854 25 May	Doyle, Sir J.M.
1855 27 July	Alves, J.
1856 16 Sept.	Woodriff, J.R.
1860 2 Oct.	March, T.C.
1868 15 Feb.	Balliston, A.
1868 17 Apr.	Macleod, E.K.S.
1869 17 July	Hertslet, T.G.
1873 7 May	Monson, Hon. D.J.
1878 23 July	Gore, J.A.C.
1880 27 Apr.	Edgcumbe, R.J.F.
1881 5 Mar.	Macbean, F.
1895 1 Mar.	Anson, E.H.
1895 26 Aug.	Goldsmith, W.B.
1898 15 June	Holmes, R.R.
1898 25 June	Martin, E.
1900 1 Dec.	Towse, E.B.

Pastimes

• Amateur Theatricals with the Royal Family, often at Balmoral or Osborne

Timeline

1861 December 14, Prince Albert, Prince Consort died.

1866–1871, Princess Louise was Victoria's private secretary.