Christian, Princess 7, 15, 48
Churchill, Lady Randolph 147
Churchill, Lord Randolph 30, 34, 44, 89, 147
Churchill, Winston 248, 267, 281, 314
Clouds, East Knoyle, Wiltshire xvi, 15, 25–6, 27, 63–4, 70–82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 97, 98, 101, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 113, 114, 115–20, 122, 135, 137, 139, 141–2, 143, 145, 148, 164, 165, 169, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 201, 204, 207, 208, 212, 213, 228, 231, 247, 255, 256, 266, 274, 276, 277, 278–80, 296, 298, 310, 322, 324, 327, 332, 337, 344, 350–1, 363, 371–2, 374–5
Cobden, Jane 16
Cobden, Richard 16
Cockerell, Sidney 255, 258, 289
Cockermouth Castle, Cumbria 2, 8, 12, 23
Conan Doyle, Arthur 208, 256
Conservative Party 1, 26–7, 30, 42, 84, 85, 88, 89, 121, 215, 243, 249, 251, 261, 263
Cooper, Duff 349
Corn Laws, 1846 25
Coronation Durbar, 1903, India 238–9, 240
‘the Coterie’ 260–1, 311, 316, 320, 322, 335, 340, 349
Crabbet Club 131, 150
Crabbet Park, Sussex 16, 131, 149, 168
Crimean War, 1853–6 27, 208
Cumberland 1, 8–9, 11, 12, 22, 75, 79, 83, 172, 266
Cunard, Nancy 320
Curzon, George 36, 51, 88, 90, 92, 95, 118, 121, 123–4, 130, 131, 147, 148, 150, 177, 182, 201, 238–9, 240, 249, 250, 281, 285, 312
Curzon, Mary 235–6, 239
Cust, Harry 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 102, 103–4, 124, 130, 131–8, 139, 145–51, 152–3, 157–60, 163, 165, 182, 195, 199, 231, 291–2, 329, 338, 348, 375
Cust (née Welby), Nina 145, 147–50, 151, 153, 158, 159, 329
Darwin, Charles 3–4, 6, 77, 278
de Broke, Lord Willoughby 281, 285
de Grey, Earl and Countess 88, 102, 118
Deal Castle, Kent 9, 21–2
Derby, Lord 12, 13, 303
Desborough (née Fane), Ettie Grenfell, Lady 20–1, 94, 95, 101, 130, 131, 140–1, 146, 148, 177, 223, 230, 231, 250, 296, 302, 304, 327, 333, 338, 341, 342, 349, 354, 357, 370, 371
Desborough, Willie Grenfell, Baron 59, 95, 101, 131, 223
Devon, Bertha (housemaid) 75, 79, 116, 117
Devonshire, Duke and Duchess of 234, 242–3
Dickens, Charles 21, 92, 357
Dillon, John 43, 106
Disraeli, Benjamin 2, 3, 12, 26–7, 30, 33, 44, 120
Dodo – A Detail of the Day (Benson) 182
Douglas, Arthur ‘Bosie’ 105, 107, 131, 164, 165, 167, 168, 179–80, 181, 182, 290–1
Douglas, Edith ‘Wommy’ 105, 164, 165, 180, 187, 193, 194, 257
Douglas, Sholto Johnstone 258
Drumlanrig, Francis, Viscount (‘Drummy’) 162–3, 164–5, 169, 179, 329
Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland 352
Dugdale, Blanche 39, 93–4
East Knoyle, Wiltshire xvi, 25, 28, 72, 74, 75, 79, 83, 98, 117, 142, 201, 253, 276, 298, 348, 355
East Lodge, Brighton 11
Easton (‘Eassy’) (lady’s maid) 6, 40, 75, 79, 81
Eaton Hall, Cheshire 98, 141–2
Edward VII, King 223, 233, 239, 240, 243, 264, 269, 273, 274–5, 277 see also Bertie, Prince of Wales
Edward, Lady ‘La Belle Pamela’ 2, 3, 122, 129, 140
Egremont, 3rd Earl of 11, 294
Egypt 10, 16, 26, 43–4, 60, 61, 63, 166–78, 179, 181, 183, 185, 224, 302, 313, 314, 326, 331
Ellis, Charley and Emily 9, 18
Esher Committee 234, 235, 243
Eton College 22, 23, 36, 61, 293, 304
Fabian Society 218, 220, 229, 277
Faivre (maid) 51
Fallodon, Northumberland 226, 252, 259, 343, 359, 366
Fashoda Incident, 1898 201–2
Felixstowe 23, 66, 88, 128, 144
Fenian Brotherhood 2, 3, 13
First World War, 1914–18 293, 294, 299–300, 301–49, 350–2
Fisher, Alexander 7, 212
Fisher, Sir John (‘Jackie’) 234, 256
FitzGerald, Lord Edward 2, 106, 122, 140
FitzGerald, Lady Edward 122, 129, 140
Florence, Italy 113, 180, 181–4, 191, 195
Forbes (butler) 72–3, 80, 81
Forbes, Lady Angela 296, 303, 305, 307, 320, 318, 331, 334, 350, 352, 369, 372
Foreign Office 41, 201, 253, 293, 300
Forster, W. E. 43
France 256, 293, 299, 305, 306, 307, 311, 319, 323, 324, 329, 348, 365 see also First World War
free trade 25, 27, 28, 242, 243, 249, 251, 273
French, Field Marshal Sir John 302
Fry, Mrs (nurse-maid) 116, 117, 118, 128
Gallipoli, 1915–16 314, 333
Gang, The 55, 59, 64, 65–6, 88, 89, 92, 95, 124
General Elections: 1868 13; 1885 84; 1892 140; 1900 215, 217–20; 1906 249, 261; January, 1910 271, 272–4; December, 1910 276, 277
George V, King 275, 276–7, 281, 302
Germany 23, 133, 180, 223–4, 235, 256, 293, 294, 299, 300, 302, 304, 306, 312, 314, 323, 324, 325, 331, 333, 334, 336, 339, 343
Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 197, 259
Gilbert and Sullivan 27, 29
Gladstone, Mary 31, 65
Gladstone, William Ewart 3, 12, 13, 26, 31, 33–4, 42, 43, 60, 61, 77, 83–4, 88, 89, 101–2, 130, 140, 160, 161, 162, 196–7, 263–4, 300
Glen House, Scottish Borders 64, 65, 88, 150, 182, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 198, 218, 220, 227–8, 252, 253, 287, 288–9, 291, 335, 337, 348, 353, 356, 357, 366
Gober, Scottish Highlands 48, 51, 52, 53, 56
Gordon, General 60–1, 62, 83–4, 201
Gosford House, Scotland 53–4, 62, 63, 65, 139, 163, 164, 169, 182, 217, 228, 262, 280, 295, 298, 299, 319, 319, 348, 352–3, 372, 373
Grenfell, Billy 317
Grenfell, Julian 304, 317
Grey, Dorothy 226, 252
Grey, Edward 224–5, 226, 229, 251–2, 253, 256, 259, 265, 268, 281, 288, 291–3, 299–300, 312, 315, 317, 343, 355, 356, 358–60, 361–2, 365–6
Grosvenor Gallery xx, 14, 28, 29
Haldane, Richard 146, 226, 229, 370
‘The Halsbury Banquet’, 1911 283
Harcourt, Elizabeth 101
Harcourt, Lewis ‘Loulou’ 162, 217, 289
Harcourt, Sir William 101, 103, 162
Harmsworth, Alfred 209, 256
Harrison, Frederick 174–5
Hartington, Lord 33–4, 85, 89, 201
Hermione, Duchess of Leinster 140, 141, 144, 167, 169, 173, 174, 177, 185, 214
Home for Working Mothers, Westminster 360
Home Rule Bill: First, 1886 88–9, 263–4; Second, 1893 161
Hope, Oliver 307–10, 329–30
Horner, Lady Frances xvi, 88, 94, 191
Hornibrook, Murray 243, 244–5
Horsenail (nanny) 6, 12, 79–80
House of Commons xvi, 2, 30, 43, 54–5, 56, 89, 93, 102, 108, 140, 146, 161, 162, 202, 213, 214–15, 226, 233, 236, 241, 246, 247, 249, 251, 263, 264, 267, 270–1, 274, 280, 281, 282, 283, 298, 300, 312
House of Lords 55, 161, 162, 215, 226, 246, 263–4, 268, 270, 272, 273, 274, 275, 280–6
Hyères, France 9, 17, 18, 22, 42, 50, 68, 143, 144, 224, 370–1
Icke, William (butler) 79, 134
India 3, 12, 17–18, 26–7, 30, 38, 116, 123, 142, 149, 152–60, 220, 235, 236, 238–9, 240–1, 243, 249, 287, 288
Ireland xx, 1, 2–3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 34, 42–3, 84, 88, 95, 98, 99, 100, 106, 107, 108, 109, 115, 116, 120, 129, 140, 154, 198, 220–1, 224, 238, 241, 243, 244–5, 246, 248–9, 273, 275, 277, 280, 293, 294, 340, 353
Irish Nationalists 84, 220, 241, 277
Irish Parliamentary Party 34, 244
Irish Rebellion, 1798 2, 106
Irish Reform Association 244
Isel Hall, Cumbria 8, 9, 11, 247
Itchen Abbas, New Forest 226, 343
James, Henry 14, 15, 33, 73–4, 106, 107, 127
James, William 77
> Jameson Raid, 1895 196
‘jingoism’ 26, 27, 197, 201, 202, 205, 210, 238
Jones, Henry Arthur 166–7
Jourdain, Miss (governess) 22, 143, 169, 172, 186, 261, 332
Kensington School of Art 23, 24
Keppel, Mrs 264, 331
Kilmainham Treaty, The, 1882 43
Kipling, Rudyard 154, 155, 205
Kitchener, Sir Herbert, 1st Earl 201, 249–50, 302, 314
Knollys, Lord 275, 277, 280, 281
Kruger, Paul 196, 204, 205
La Chanson de Marie-des-Agnes (Richepin) xiii
Labouchere, Henry ‘Labby’ 125, 209, 211, 220
Labour Party 277
Land Purchase Act, 1903 241, 243
Lansdowne, Lord 275, 281, 282, 284, 285
Lascelles, Tommy 322–3, 349
Leconfield, Constance 11, 33, 128, 162
Leconfield, George Wyndham, 1st Lord 1, 5, 11–12
Leconfield, Henry Wyndham, 2nd Lord 11, 12, 128
Leighton House, London 7, 30, 31
Leighton, Frederic 7, 12, 30, 77
Leonard, Mrs (medium) 344, 345, 346
Liberal Imperialists (‘Liberal Imps’) 146, 197, 217, 224, 251, 263
Liberal League 225, 268
Liberal Party 13, 27, 30, 31, 34, 61, 84, 85, 88, 89, 105, 111, 130, 146, 158–9, 162, 197, 209, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 224, 225, 238, 241, 242, 249, 251, 261, 263, 268, 269, 273, 275, 277, 281, 287, 289, 303
Liberal Unionists 89, 106, 111, 158, 160, 161, 162, 215, 218, 220, 233, 238, 241, 242, 244–5, 249, 251, 261, 262, 263, 264, 268, 272, 273, 275, 277, 280, 281, 285
Liberty’s 29
Lichnowsky, Prince 299, 300
Liddell, Adolphus ‘Doll’ 64, 88, 93, 118, 130
Life and Letters of George Wyndham (Mackail/Wyndham) 21, 22, 244, 362
Lindsay, Lady 14, 28–9
Lloyd George, David 161, 226, 263, 264, 267, 268–9, 272, 275, 277, 314, 343
Lodge, Sir Oliver 76, 77, 109, 256, 344–5, 358
Lodge, Raymond 345
Lowndes, Frederick 355
Lowndes, Marie Belloc 226, 255, 256, 258–9, 359, 360
Lowndes, Susan 255, 259, 329
Lyttelton, Alfred 40, 55, 59, 64–5, 91–2, 96, 118, 208, 349
Lyttelton, D. D. (Edith) 91, 118, 119, 151, 191, 349
Lyttelton (née Tennant), Laura 36, 55, 59, 64–9, 86–8, 95, 134, 182
Lyttelton, Spencer 65, 87
MacDonnell, Antony 220–1, 244, 245, 246
Mallet (née Adeane), Marie 103, 129, 202
Mallett, William 81
Manners (later Granby), Duchess of Rutland, Violet 88, 102, 133, 134, 145, 147–8, 150, 151, 260, 274, 317
Manners, Lady Diana 295, 316, 335, 349
Marlborough House Set 6, 90, 147, 215
Mayo, Lord 12, 17–18, 56
Midlothian Campaign 33, 43, 62
Mill, J.S.: Utilitarianism 102, 103
Milner, Sir Alfred 196, 204, 205
Milton, Wiltshire 75, 98, 117
Montgomery, Alfred 163, 164
Moore, George Gordon 316, 324
Morley, Lord 284, 285
Morris & Co. 7, 73, 114, 117, 129, 192, 194, 204, 255
Morris, Janey 16, 109
Morris, William 7–8, 25, 27, 73, 76, 83, 108
Mosselman, Adriaan 363
Mosselman, Nancy 363, 374
Mother’s Clinic, Holloway 360
Much Cowarne, Hertfordshire 25
Mulberry House 359, 362
Murray, Sir Archibald 333
Myer, Frank 127
Myers, Frederic 77, 78
National Liberal Club 268, 269
National Liberal Foundation 27
National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations 27, 44, 263
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) 158–9
Newbolt, Henry 229, 256
New University Club, St James’s Street 55, 66
Northcliffe, Lord 256, 356
O’Brien, William 42, 108
Ogilvy, David 41, 55
Oliver, Edith 10, 121, 365
Orabi, Colonel Ahmed 43
Orpen, William 276, 357, 371
Oxford University 13, 22, 29, 36, 261, 264
Paget, Arthur 135–6, 137, 263, 265, 306
Paget, Lady Muriel 306
Paget, Walburga, Lady 77, 146, 181, 182
Pall Mall Gazette 106, 150–1, 199
Panshanger, Hertfordshire 92, 97, 111
Paris, France 42, 64, 65–6, 90, 112, 215, 284, 285–6, 296–7, 345, 361–2
Parliament, Houses of 2, 3, 26, 34, 43, 44, 84, 107, 121, 158, 160, 209, 214, 242, 243, 244, 246, 264, 270, 271, 274, 276, 280–6, 293, 298 see also House of Commons and House of Lords
Parliament Bill, 1911 274, 280–6, 287
Parnell, Charles Stewart 34, 42, 43, 84
Paulet, Lily 40–1, 56
Peebles Ball 259, 289
Pembroke, Earl 39–40, 88, 91, 92, 118, 150
Pembroke, Gertrude, Countess of 39–40, 88, 91, 92, 101, 118
Petworth House, Sussex 1, 2, 11, 15–16, 81, 128, 267
Plymouth, Gay, Lady 96, 181, 296, 354
Plymouth, Phyllis 296
Ponsonby, Brigadier John 328
Poynter, Agnes 110
Poynter, Edward 90–1, 110
Pre-Raphaelites 7–8, 14, 73, 204
Prinsep, Sara 7
Prinsep, Val 8, 59
Queensberry, Marquess 105–6, 163, 179, 180, 181
Queensberry, Sibyl 105–6, 162, 165, 179, 180, 181, 291
Radicals 6, 13, 34, 84, 88–9, 160, 161, 209, 217, 249, 251, 263, 270, 277, 312
Raleigh, Sir Walter 231, 265
Redistribution Act, 1885 83
Redmond, John 244, 282
Reform Act, 1832 269; 1867 12–13, 30, 269
Relugas Compact, 1905 226
Ribblesdale (née Tennant), Charlotte (‘Charty’), Lady xv, xvi, xviii, 59, 66, 88, 92, 94, 101, 181, 182, 183, 193, 195–6, 218, 296, 316
Ribblesdale, Tommy, Lord xv, xviii, 55, 65, 86, 88, 101, 296, 319
Ritchie, Charles 242, 243
Roberts, Lord ‘Bobs’ 201, 209, 213, 220, 294
Rodin 371, 374
Roseberry, Lord 33, 89, 162, 163, 165, 181, 225, 262, 268, 284, 285
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 25, 30
Rothschild, Ferdinand de 26, 92, 123, 128
Royal Academy xvi, xvii, xix, 7, 28, 213
Ruskin, John 28, 29–30, 50–1, 77, 204
Russia 26, 27, 123, 256, 299, 306, 313
Saighton Grange, Cheshire 149, 152, 198
Salisbury, Alice 302
Salisbury, Lord 30, 34, 84, 89, 98, 99, 162, 196, 197, 201, 205, 217, 233, 251, 273
Sargent, John Singer xvi–xx, 200, 202, 203, 212, 213, 222, 363, 369
Sassoon, Siegfried 342, 358, 365
Sayers, Mrs 62, 63
Schneider, Fräulein Bertha (‘Bun’) 22–3, 24, 25, 26, 48, 50, 58, 59, 75, 76, 105, 113, 115, 116, 117, 184, 261, 279
School of Art and Needlework 7, 29
Scott, Sir Walter 21, 122, 352
Season xv, 16, 32–3, 35–6, 38, 63, 88, 91–2, 97, 100, 101, 121–9, 144, 204, 281
Second World War, 1939–45 295, 371, 372
Shah of Persia 121, 123, 125
Shaw, George Bernard 108
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 92, 374
Sheykh Obeyd, Egypt 16, 168, 169–76
Sibell, Countess Grosvenor 95, 96, 98–9, 115, 116, 131, 141–2, 148, 149, 152, 153, 157, 158, 163, 178, 186, 187, 224, 244, 247, 280, 286, 291, 296, 297, 302, 363
Siddal, Lizzie 7, 25, 204
Sidgwick, Henry 77
Sitwell, Osbert 135, 149, 227, 325, 362
Sitwell, Sacheverell 362
Smith, F. E. 279, 280, 281
Smith, Lucy Graham 88, 133, 145, 149, 156, 157, 184, 187, 358
socialists/socialism 8, 34–5, 83, 85, 108, 120, 220, 229, 26
4, 272, 277, 301
Society for Psychical Research (SPR) 77, 344
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 27–8, 76
Society xv, xvi, xix, 6–7, 30, 32, 35–6, 37, 66, 87, 88, 89, 91–2, 93, 121, 122, 123, 127, 150, 163, 166, 167, 178, 180, 182, 239, 252, 275, 293–4, 362, 363, 365
Souls xv, 55, 59, 76, 89–96, 97, 99, 100–1, 102, 103, 105, 118–19, 121, 122–5, 130, 131, 133, 146–8, 150–1, 158, 159, 160, 171–2, 178, 191, 192, 238, 241, 249–50, 260, 264, 280, 302, 335, 341, 348, 370, 371, 373
South Africa xvi, 196, 200, 205–8, 209–10, 211–13, 214, 308
spiritualism 77–8, 144, 229–30, 255, 344, 345–6, 355–6, 358, 365
Spoils of Poynton, The (James) 15, 73–4, 120
Stanway, Gloucestershire xvi, 47, 55, 56, 57–8, 59, 62, 66, 67, 69, 70, 86, 88, 94, 101, 109, 112, 116, 118, 128, 134, 139, 140, 144, 167, 168, 178, 183, 184, 185, 216, 228, 229–30, 234, 250, 260, 264, 265, 272, 279, 290, 294–6, 298, 299, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 313, 322, 327, 330, 342, 348, 352, 353, 354, 370, 371, 373
Stockton House, Wiltshire 193–5, 247, 360
Stopes, Marie 51, 191–2, 346–8, 360–1
Strickland (née Charteris), Mary Pamela Madeline Sibell 189, 240, 296, 311, 313, 314, 320, 326
Strickland, Tom 313, 331, 332
Sudan 60–1, 74, 201
Suez 26, 43, 153, 176
suffragism 159, 218, 269–70, 293
Sumner, Georgie 7, 67
Taff Vale judgement, 1901 238
Taplow Court, Berkshire 131, 230, 286, 371
tariff reform 241–2, 256, 263, 267–8, 272, 277, 298
Tennant, Sir Charles (‘the Bart’) 36, 87, 89, 192, 194, 218, 227, 252, 253, 257, 259, 335, 337
Tennant, Charlie 252, 259, 265, 287–8, 351
Tennant, Christopher Grey (‘Kit’) 195, 203, 224, 307, 308–9, 315, 317, 353, 356, 358, 364, 365, 366
Tennant (later Bethell, later Tennyson, later Beck), Clarissa Madeline Genevieve Adelaide (‘Clare’) 195, 227, 228, 255, 257, 292, 316–17, 343, 356, 362, 365–6
Tennant, David Pax 195, 223, 224, 227, 247, 309, 317, 356, 359, 362–3, 364, 374
Tennant, Baron Glenconner, Eddy xv, 156–7, 181–4, 186–7, 191–2, 193–5, 197, 217, 218–19, 220, 225, 239, 251–4, 255, 257, 258–9, 268, 273, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 303, 308, 315, 317, 343, 344, 345, 352, 355, 356, 357–8, 360, 363
Tennant, Edward Wyndham (‘Bim’) 195, 199, 227, 247, 258, 293, 303–4, 307, 308, 309, 316, 317, 319, 323, 325, 326, 328, 329, 334, 336–9, 341–2, 343, 344, 345, 346, 348, 358
Tennant, Emma 308
Tennant, Frances 294
Tennant (née Baddeley), Hermione 309, 359, 362, 364, 366
Tennant, Hester 328, 329–30, 334, 345
Tennant, Lieutenant Mark 339
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