Social Victorians/People/Blois

Also Known As

 * Family name: Blois or MacNaghten Blois
 * Blois Baronet of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall (Baronetage of England)
 * Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. (31 December 1888 – 18 March 1950)

Timeline
1897 July 2, Sir Ralph Blois attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1898 April 30, Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois and Winifred Grace Kennard married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Sir Ralph Blois (at 593) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball dressed as Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia.

Lafayette's portrait of "Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaghten, 9th Bt as Jerome Buonaparte, King of Westphalia" in costume is photogravure #220 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Sir Ralph Bart. as Jerome Buonaparte, King of Westphalia."

The portrait (right) of Jérome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (1784–1860) and Catharina of Württemberg, Queen of Westphalia (1783–1835) is in the collections at the Chateau de Versailles. It was painted by François-Joseph Kinson between 1802–1839 but probably after 1810. In a similar portrait of this couple dated 1810, they look younger and she is wearing a different white dress, but Jérome Bonaparte reigned only from 1807–1813. If Sir Ralph Blois was following Louisa, Duchess of Devonshire's rules, his costume was supposed to be dated to before 1820.

Demographics

 * Nationality: English

Family

 * Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. (21 November 1866 – 18 March 1950)
 * Winifred Grace Kennard ( – 28 November 1963)
 * 1) Iris Freda Blois (21 August 1899 – 11 August 1962)
 * 2) Sir Gervase Ralph Edmund Blois, 10th Bt. (6 June 1901 – 22 May 1968)
 * 3) Christian Frances Blois (21 October 1902 – 18 September 1998)
 * 4) Carol Edward John Blois ( 9 November 1906 – 9 September 1945)
 * 5) Flavia Ria Joan Blois (26 December 1914 – )