Social Victorians/People/Saint Oswald

Also Known As

• Family name: Winn
• Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell, in the West Riding of County York (U.K.)
  • Rowland Winn, 1st Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell (6 July 1885 – 19 January 1893)
  • Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell 19 January 1893 – 13 April 1919)

Timeline

1854 March 21, Rowland Winn and Harriet Maria Amelia Dumaresq married.

1885 July 6, Rowland Winn was created 1st Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell, in the West Riding of County York (U.K.).

1893 January 20, Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron and Mabel Susan Forbes married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Lord and Lady St. Oswald and the Hon. Maud Julia Winn attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1900 May 31, Hon. Maud Julia Winn and Sir "Richard" Alan Richard Montagu-Stuart-Wortley married.

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

Mabel, Lady St Oswald in costume as Duchessa di Caluria, a Venetian Lady of the XVI Century. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Mabel Winn, Lady St. Oswald

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Lady St. Oswald (at 284) was dressed as

• "a Venetian lady of the Fourteenth Century, [and] appeared in a costume consisting of an under robe of old blue brocaded velvet tissé pearls and silver, and an overdress of the finest white crêpe de chine, very elaborately embroidered with silver, with appliqué of blue satin and cabochons of pearls. She wore a small Venetian cap of blue velvet and white silk crêpe, with pearl embroidery and long veil of white crêpe embroidered silver. Round the corsage was a very handsome jewelled belt, from which hung an aumonière."
• "(Venetian lady, fourteenth Century), under robe of old blue brocaded velvet, tissé pearls and silver; overdress of finest white crêpe de Chine very elaborately embroidered silver, with appliqué of blue satin and studded cabochons of pearls; corsage of old blue ciselé velvet certé pearls."
• Duchessa di Caluria in the Italian procession.
• a Venetian lady of the 14th century.

Lafayette's portrait of "Mabel Susan (née Forbes), Lady St Oswald as Duchessa di Caluria, a Venetian Lady of the XVI Century" in costume is photogravure #163 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lady St. Oswald as Duchessa di Caluria, a Venetian Lady of the XVI Century," with a Long S in Duchessa.

No Duchessa di Caluria seems to have existed. Perhaps the correct name is Calabria. The Duke of Calabria was the title of the heir apparent of the King of Naples, which in the 16th century would have been the House of Anjou or the House of Aragon. If Lady St. Oswald was correct about the 16th century, and if the printers of the album got it right, then two Duchesses of Calabria are possible, both from the House of Aragon: Germaine of Foix (duchess August 1526 – 18 October 1538) and Mencia de Mondoza (February 1540 – 26 October 1550). Available portraits of these women does not show a dress similar to the one worn by Lady St. Oswald.

Later, Maria Carolina of Austria (13 August 1752 – 8 September 1814) —one of Empress Marie-Thérèse's daughters and a sister of Marie Antoinette — married the Duke of Calabria, but that is the 18th century.

Colonial French Troops, 1789

Rowland Winn, Baron St. Oswald

Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald in costume as an officer of the Regiment de Pondichery, 1772. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Lord St. Oswald (at 641) was dressed as an

• officer of the Regiment de Pondichery, 1772.
• "officer, Regiment de Pondichery, 1772), coat, regimental, long skirts, white cloth, rolled collar, cuffs, and Lancer front, orange yellow; coat worn open; vest, white cloth, silver buttons; breeches, white cloth; gaiters, white leather, worn above the knee."
• "Lord St. Oswald, as an officer of the Regiment de Pondichery, 1772, wore a regimental coat, with long skirts of white cloth, rolled collar and cuffs, with a Lancer front of orange yellow. Silver regimental buttons adorned the yellow front, and there were three silver buttons on the side of the cuffs."

Lafayette's portrait of "Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald as an officer of the Regiment de Pondichery, 1772" in costume is photogravure #164 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lord St. Oswald as an Officer Regiment de Pondichery 1772."

Pondichéry, now Puducherry, is an area on the south-east coast of India, one of the sites of factories of the French East India Company, so a tiny French colony on the Indian peninsula. This image of the uniform of French Colonial troops (right) shows uniforms in 1789, a few years later than Baron St. Oswald's uniform. The poster shows the uniforms worn at the colony in Régiment de Pondichéry (on the left), Martinique, and Le Cap.

The Hon. Maud Winn in costume as Madame La Motte. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Hon. Maud Winn

The Hon. Maud Winn (at 642) was dressed

• "(mode et costume Française), white satin skirt and yellow satin train."
• as Madame La Motte.

Lafayette's portrait of "Maud Julia Mary (née Winn), Lady Stuart-Wortley as Madame La Motte" is photogravure #60 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Hon. Maud Winn as Madame La Motte."

Madame La Motte was Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy (22 July 1756 – 23 August 1791), who in attempting to defraud Marie Antoinette and others caused one of the scandals that undermined the royalty in France and led to the French Revolution, although La Motte died in London before Marie Antoinette did.

Demographics

• Nationality: English

Residences

• The Winns: Nostell Priory, near Wakefield; Appleby Hall, near Scunthorpe
• The Montagu-Stuart-Wortleys: Home Close, Highclere, Newbury, Berkshire

Family

• Rowland Winn, 1st Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893)
• Harriet Maria Amelia Dumaresq ( – 6 June 1926)

1. Hon. Laura Sophia Priscilla Winn ( – 29 October 1891)
2. Hon. Maud Julia Winn ( – 17 June 1938)
3. Hon. Emily Louisa Winn ( – 16 November 1927)
4. Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell (1 August 1857 – 13 April 1919)
5. Major Hon. Charles Cavendish Winn (September 1858 – January 1898)
6. Hon. Algernon James Winn (12 January 1861 – 7 August 1894)
7. Hon. George William Phipps Winn (4 July 1863 – 2 March 1952)
8. Hon. Cecil Henry Winn (27 October 1866 – 23 March 1934)

• Hon. Maud Julia Winn ( – 17 June 1938)
• General Hon. Sir "Richard" Alan Richard Montagu-Stuart-Wortley ( – 23 September 1949)

1. Marjorie Susan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (4 March 1901 – )
2. Henry James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (10 May 1906 – 16 June 1982)

• Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell (1 August 1857 – 13 April 1919)
• Mabel Susan Forbes ( – 14 February 1919)

1. Rowland George Winn, 3rd Baron Saint Oswald of Nostell (29 July 1893 – 25 February 1957)
2. Hon. Edith Victoria Blanche Winn (12 January 1895 – 5 June 1966)
3. Hon. Charles John Frederick Winn (6 October 1896 – 1 May 1968)
4. Major Hon. Reginald Henry Winn (4 Sep 1899 – 27 January 1985)
5. Hon. Anthony Edmund Winn (4 January 1909 – 26 October 1942)