Those Wild Wyndhams
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12. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [July 1902], Stanway Papers.
13. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 1 January 1901 and 20 December 1900; Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 21 December 1900, Adeane Papers.
14. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 17 January 1901, Adeane Papers.
15. Blow, Broken Blood, p. 134.
16. Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Recreation (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1920). These essays were drawn from an address given at Harvard University in December 1919.
17. Their lengthy correspondence is in four large folders in the Glenconner Papers at NRS GD510/1/60.
18. See the picture of Edward Grey drawn by Prince Carl Lichnowsky, My Mission to London, 1912–1914 (Toronto, Cassell, 1918), pp. 27–8.
19. Robert Eccleshall and Graham Walker (eds), Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers (London and New York, Routledge, 1998), p. 229.
20. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, December 1903, Stanway Papers; Pamela Tennant to Sidney Cockerell, 22 January 1904, BL Cockerell Papers, vol. CXLVII, Add. MSS. 52769 f. 157.
21. The Times, 5 February 1906.
22. Quoted in Marie Belloc Lowndes, A Passing World (Macmillan, 1948), p. 187.
23. Viscount Grey of Fallodon, The Cottage Book: The Undiscovered Country Diary of an Edwardian Statesman, ed. and introduced by Michael Waterhouse (Gollancz, 1999), p. 26.
24. Belloc Lowndes, A Passing World, p. 175.
25. Charles Adeane to Mary Elcho, 6 November 1905, Stanway Papers.
26. Sitwell, Laughter in the Next Room, p. 45.
27. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 25 March 1908, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 3r.
28. Edward Wyndham Tennant to Pamela Tennant, 23 August 1916, quoted in Glenconner, Edward Wyndham Tennant, p. 221.
29. Ibid., p. 249.
30. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 9 June 1928, Stanway Papers.
31. Hoare, Serious Pleasures, p. 6.
32. Ibid., p. 14.
33. Blow, Broken Blood, p. 165.
34. Quoted in Hoare, Serious Pleasures, p. 7.
35. Ibid., p. 23.
36. Ibid., p. 7.
37. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 31 October 1909, Stanway Papers.
38. Fanny Cliffe to Mary Elcho, 6 July 1906, Stanway Papers.
39. Wemyss, Family Record, p. 204.
40. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, p. 23.
41. Ibid., p. 20.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Asquith, An Autobiography, 2.44.
45. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, pp. 42–3; Haply I May Remember, p. 14.
46. Beatrice Webb, The Diary of Beatrice Webb: All the Good Things of Life, vol. 2: 1892–1905, ed. Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (Virago, 1986), p. 254.
47. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 1 October 1896 (Letters, p. 148).
48. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 30 November 1912, Stanway Papers.
49. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 18 February 1907 (Letters, p. 237).
50. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, pp. 42–3; Haply I May Remember, p. 14.
51. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 18 February 1907 (Letters, p. 237).
52. Ridley and Percy (eds), Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho, quoted at p. 17.
53. Asquith, Haply I May Remember, p. 13.
54. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 12 October 1905, Adeane Papers.
55. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, n.d. [November/December 1905], Adeane Papers.
56. Percy Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham, 3 November 1905, Stanway Papers.
57. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 1 December 1905, Adeane Papers.
58. Ibid.
59. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho, 21 November 1905, Stanway Papers.
60. Charles Adeane to Mary Elcho, 6 November 1905, Stanway Papers.
61. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 12 December 1905, Adeane Papers.
62. Madeline Adeane to Percy Wyndham, 31 December 1905, Adeane Papers.
Chapter 23: The Souls in Power
1. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 15 July 1902 (Letters, pp. 188–9).
2. Ibid.
3. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, p. 3.
4. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 19 January 1904 (Letters, p. 210).
5. Ibid.
6. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 27 February 1904 (Letters, pp. 212–13). Lady Edward Cavendish was the widowed sister of Sir Frank and ‘hostessed’ for her brother in Berlin.
7. Ibid.
8. Nigel Nicolson, Mary Curzon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977), pp. 147–8.
9. Ibid.
10. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 1 August 1900 (Letters, p. 171).
11. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 19 January 1904 (Letters, p. 209).
12. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 14 February 1907 (Letters, p. 236).
13. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 19 January 1904 (Letters, p. 209).
14. Asquith, An Autobiography, 2.45.
15. Jalland, Women, Marriage and Politics, pp. 197, 204.
16. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 14 March 1894 (Letters, p. 105); Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 23 September 1896 (Letters, p. 145).
17. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 15 July 1902 (Letters, p. 190).
18. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 12 July 1902 (Letters, p. 186); Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.79.
19. Ridley and Percy (eds), Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho, p. 197.
20. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 3 September 1902, Stanway Papers.
21. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [1902], Stanway Papers.
22. Adams, The Last Grandee, p. 194.
23. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 17 February 1903, Stanway Papers.
24. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 20 February 1905, Stanway Papers.
25. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [1902], Stanway Papers.
26. Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, p. 114.
27. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 17 February 1902, Stanway Papers.
28. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 13 February 1903 (Letters, pp. 196–7).
29. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 27 February 1903 (Letters, pp. 197–8).
30. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 10 August 1903 (Letters, pp. 203–4).
31. Ibid.
32. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 18 September 1903 (Letters, p. 206).
33. Murray Hornibrook, in July 1924, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.791.
34. Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.91.
35. Ibid., 1.92.
36. Ibid., 2.795.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., 1.93.
39. Antony MacDonnell to George Wyndham, 10 September 1904, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.764–5.
40. Ibid., 1.97.
41. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, n.d. [1913], Blunt Papers, FM 673-1975.
42. Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.102.
43. Ibid., 1.103.
44. Ibid., 1.105.
45. Ibid.
46. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 8 March 1905, Stanway Papers.
47. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 24 February 1905 (Letters, pp. 219–20).
48. Tynan Hinkson, Years of the Shadow, p. 257.
49. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 24 February 1905 (Letters, pp. 219–20).
50. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 14 January 1906, Stanway Papers.
51. Lambert, Unquiet Souls, pp. 128–9.
Chapter 24: Pamela at Wilsford
1. Hoare, Serious Pleasures, p. 4.
2. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 7 January 1906, Stanway Papers.
3. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 25 March 1908, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 3r. The lines are from Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’.
4. The Times, 5 February 1906.
5. Hoare, Serious Pleasures, p. 6.
6. The Times, 4 January 1921. The equivalent in RPI is £278,200,000; in ESV £1,605,000,000; and in EPV £2,338,000,000.
7. Ridley and Percy (eds), Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho, p. 14.
8. The Times, 4 January 1921.
9. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 14 February 1901, Stanway Papers.
10. The Times, 9 May 1910.
11. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 26 May 1910, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 9r.
12. Blow, Broken Blood, p. 124.
13. Hoare, Serious Pleasures, pp. 5–6.
14. Pamela Tennant to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 12 April 1905, Blunt Papers, FM 553-1975.
15. Pamela Tennant to Sidney Cockerell, 22 April 1902, BL Cockerell Papers, vol. CXLVII, Add. MSS. 52769 ff. 150–1.
16. Ibid. The lines are a misquotation of Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’: ‘The budding twigs spread out their fan, / To catch the breezy air.’
17. The Times, 29 November 1920.
18. Quoted in Hoare, Serious Pleasures, pp. 88–9.
19. Ibid., p. 32.
20. James, Rise and Fall, p. 336.
21. John Biggs Davison, George Wyndham: A Study in Toryism (Hodder & Stoughton, 1951), p. 198; Egremont, The Cousins, p. 270.
22. George Wyndham to Sibell Grosvenor, 21 January 1906, quoted in Egremont, The Cousins, p. 259.
23. Ibid., p. 287.
24. Margot Asquith, diary entry, 14 July 1906, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. d. 4204.
25. Raymond Asquith, diary entry of 1903, quoted in John Joliffe, Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters (Collins, 1980), p. 136.
26. Marriage Settlement of Margot Tennant, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/21 f. 4r.
27. Edward Glenconner to Margot Asquith, 6 August 1919, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c. 6697. The equivalent in RPI is £942,700; in ESV £3,657,000; and in EPV £6,873,000.
28. Margot Asquith, diary entry, 14 July 1906, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. d. 4204.
29. Pamela Tennant to Sidney Cockerell, 26 February 1911, BL Cockerell Papers, vol. CXLVII, Add. MSS. 52769 f. 174.
30. Sidney Cockerell to Pamela Tennant, 27 February 1911, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/35 f. 3r; F. W. Bain to Sidney Cockerell, 24 February 1911, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/37.
31. N.d., Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/32 f. 12r.
32. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, pp. 191–2.
33. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 20 August 1908, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 6r.
34. Belloc Lowndes, A Passing World, p. 181.
35. Hoare, Serious Pleasures, p. 7.
36. See Blow, Broken Blood; and Emma Tennant, Strangers: A Family Romance (Jonathan Cape, 1998); Waiting for Princess Margaret (Quartet Books, 2009).
37. Blow, Broken Blood, p. 188.
38. Ibid., p. 117.
39. Ibid., p. 124.
40. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 22 May 1908, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 7r.
41. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 7 October 1908, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 5r.
42. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 25 March 1908, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 3r.
43. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 7 October 1908, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 5r.
Chapter 25: Mr Balfour’s Poodle
1. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 9 July 1907 (Letters, p. 238).
2. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 16 January 1906 (Letters, p. 229).
3. The Times, 7 July 1916.
4. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 16 January 1906 (Letters, p. 229).
5. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 26 July 1911, Stanway Papers.
6. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 31 October 1909, Stanway Papers.
7. See for example Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [January 1916] (Letters, pp. 334–5); and 22 May 1920, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD433/2/228/1 f. 7r.
8. Ridley and Percy (eds), Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho, pp. 143–5.
9. Asquith, Haply I May Remember, pp. 210–11.
10. Ibid., pp. 2, 225–6.
11. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 9 July 1907 (Letters, pp. 238–9).
12. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 12 January 1906, Stanway Papers.
13. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 20 January 1906 (Letters, pp. 229–30).
14. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 15 October 1907 (Letters, pp. 242–3).
15. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 16 November 1907 (Letters, p. 244).
16. Quoted in Cannadine, Decline and Fall, p. 46.
17. The Times, 23 October 1906.
18. Hattersley, Lloyd George, p. 199.
19. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 14 January 1906, Stanway Papers.
20. Hansard 4, 176:1429, 26 June 1907.
21. Hansard 4, 188, 1908, col 47.
22. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, p. 14.
23. George Wyndham to Percy Wyndham, 14 April 1908, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.608.
24. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant, 25 February 1909, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 8r.
25. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 26 Mary 1909, Stanway Papers.
26. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 31 January 1909 (Letters, p. 255).
27. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 26 March 1909, Stanway Papers.
28. Ibid.
29. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 7 March 1909, Stanway Papers.
30. The College, founded in 1907, was the brainchild of the reclusive Sir William Macdonald and his flamboyant sidekick James W. Robertson, the federal government’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying in the 1890s, who served as the College’s first president. The College is now part of McGill University in Montreal.
31. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 2 March 1909, Stanway Papers.
32. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 7 March 1909, Stanway Papers.
33. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 13 March 1909, Stanway Papers.
34. Hansard, 5C, 4.548, 29 April 1909.
35. The Times, 22 June 1909.
36. Adams, The Last Grandee, p. 241.
37. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham, 21 January 1910, Stanway Papers.
38. Edward Tennant to Mr Allard, 27 June 1909, Tennant Papers, NLS 1.0172.
39. The Times, 24 June 1909.
40. The Times, 11 October 1909.
41. Ibid.
42. The Times, 31 July 1909.
43. The Times, 11 October 1909.
44. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 3 October 1909, Stanway Papers.
45. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 31 October 1909, Stanway Papers.
46. The Times, 3 December 1909.
Chapter 26: 1910
1. Adams, The Last Grandee, p. 241.
2. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham, 21 January 1910, Stanway Papers.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 21 February 1910, Stanway Papers.
7. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 23 March 1910 (Letters, p. 261).
8. Ibid.
9. George Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 15 February 1913, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.737–8.
10. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 23 March 1910 (Letters, p. 261).
11. Roy Jenkins, Mr. Balfour’s Poodle: Peers v. People (Papermac, 1999), p. 146.
12. Ibid., p. 145.
13. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, p. 127.
14. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 10 July 1910, Stanway Papers. Mary was right to anticipate objection. Her design was changed at the last minute, as Margot Asquith challenged Cynthia with the question: ‘Do you want your bridesmaids to look like twelve loaves of bread?’ (Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, p. 127).
15. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 26 July 1911 (Letters, p. 267).
16. George Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 6 October 1910, in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.669.
17. Wemyss, Family Record, p. 208.
18. Dakers, Clouds, p. 172.
19. Quoted in ibid., p. 175.
20. Jenkins, Mr. Balfour’s Poodle, p. 178.
21. Ibid., pp. 187, 190.
22. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 8 December 1910, Stanway Papers.
Chapter 27: Revolution?
1. George Wyndham to Philip Hanson, 5 April 1911, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.687; Wemyss, Family Record, p. 209.
2. George Wyndham to Philip Hanson, 5 April 1911, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.687.
3. Madeline Wyndham to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 6 December 1918, Blunt Papers, FM 894-1975.
4. Quoted in Dakers, Clouds, p. 176.
5. The Times, 20 March 1911.
6. George Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham, 11 December 1911, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.710.
7. The Times, 14 March 1911.
8. Dated July 1911, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/21. In today’s money the real price is £2,242; labour value £9,144; and income value £13,020.
9. The equivalent in RPI is £20,150,000; in ESV £117,000,000; and in EPV £163,300,000.
10. The Times, 11 April 1911.
11. George Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham, 1 October 1911, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.707; and 21 December 1911, ibid., 2.712.
12. George Wyndham to Charles Gatty, 16 March 1911, ibid., 2.686.
13. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 19 July 1900 (Letters, pp.168–9).
14. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 12 January 1911 (Letters, pp. 263–4).
15. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 30 July 1911 (Letters, p. 269).
16. Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Twenty-Five Years 1892–1916, 2 vols (Hodder & Stoughton, 1926), 1.238.
17. Jenkins, Mr. Balfour’s Poodle, p. 208.
18. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 16 July 1911 (Letters, p. 266).
19. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 23 July 1911 (Letters, pp. 266–7).
20. Adams, The Last Grandee, p. 252. The phrase has also been attributed to George Curzon: see David Gilmour, ‘Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, January 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32680, accessed 23 October 2013].
21. Jenkins, Mr. Balfour’s Poodle, p. 226.
22. Ibid., p. 227.
23. Ibid., p. 223.
24. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 30 July 1911 (Letters, p. 268).
25. Jenkins, Mr. Balfour’s Poodle, p. 233.
26. Ibid., p. 236.
27. Ibid., p. 238.
28. Ibid., p. 234.