Social Victorians/People/Durham

Also Known As

 * Family name: Lambton
 * Earl of Durham
 * John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham (27 November 1879 – 18 September 1928)
 * Viscount Lambton
 * John George Lambton ( – 27 November 1879)
 * Letty Lind: Letitia Elizabeth Rudge

Letty Lind

 * George Edwardes (1887
 * George Grossmith (1894)
 * Jessie Bond (1894)

Timeline
1882 October 28, John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham, and Ethel Milner married, at which point she became Countess Durham; he had been Earl of Durham since 27 November 1879.

1889 January 22, Lady Eleanor Lambton and Lord Robert Cecil married at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London.

1891 September 26, Saturday, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reported that the Hon. Cecil Lambton had been fishing in the Duke of Buccleuch's water and had "good fish."

1897 July 2, Friday, the Earl of Durham and Captain the Hon. W. Lambton, attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. Captain Hedworth Lambton, Lady Anne Lambton and an Hon. Cecil Lambton attended as well.

1900 June 3, Sunday, Whit Sunday, an Hon. George Lambton (a "racing trainer") was present at a Whitsun house party at Sandringham House. (195)

1911 September 2, Hedworth Lambton changed his name to Hedworth Meux by Royal License.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Members of this family who attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball include


 * John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham (#141 on the list of people who attended)
 * Captain the Hon. W. Lambton (#346)
 * Captain Hedworth Lambton (#660)
 * Lady Anne Lambton (#659)
 * Hon. Cecil Lambton (#628)
 * Katherine Frances Lambton Osborne, the Duchess of Leeds
 * Lady Eleanor Lambton Gascoyne-Cecil
 * Lady Beatrix Louisa Lambton Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham
John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham sat at Table 2 and was dressed as Ethel Elizabeth Louisa Milner Lambton, Countess of Lambton does not seem to have attended. (See Note #1, below)
 * "the Duc de Nemours, period Henri III."
 * "the Due de Nemours, appeared in a doublet of neutral-tinted grey Genoa velvet brocade, barred across with dark grey bars of velvet, the band up the front embroidered with passementerie. The sleeves were of black velvet, slashed with small slashes and puffed with white satin. The Earl had pearl earrings, pear-shaped, a large triple jewelled chain round the neck, and a rapier, with black leather scabbard and steel hilt."
 * "The Earl of Durham represented the Duc de Nemours in grey and black velvet. He wore pearl earrings!" (42, Col. 2b)
 * "The Earl of Durham (the Duc de Nemours), double of neutral-tinted grey Genoa velvet brocade; sleeves, black velvet, slashed with small slashes, and puffed with white satin; trunks, black velvet, slashed with long narrow slashes of brocade; breeches, grey brocade, ending in dark grey satin bows at the knees."

Captain the Hon. W. Lambton
Captain the Hon. W. Lambton — likely Maj.-Gen. Hon. Sir William Lambton — was dressed as one of the Mousquetaires et Militaires de l'Epoque in the Quadrille of the Louis XV. and Louis XVI.

Captain Hedworth Lambton
Captain Hedworth Lambton was dressed as a Roman.

Lady Anne Lambton
Lady Anne Lambton was dressed as "Mme. de Longueville, Louis XIII.," period, wearing "blue satin, crême petticoat, sleeves slashed and fastened mauve bows, and large white lawn collar."

Hon. Cecil Lambton
Hon. Cecil Lambton is still unidentified, but we know that he appeared in the court of Catherine of Russia; his original costume appeared in the Drury Lane production of the White Heather.

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham (5 September 1828 – 27 November 1879)
 * Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton (21 July 1835 – 21 January 1871)
 * John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 18 September 1928)
 * Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 31 January 1929)
 * Admiral Hon. Sir Hedworth Lambton (5 July 1856 – 20 September 1929)
 * Brig.-Gen. Hon. Charles Lambton (3 November 1857 – 5 December 1949)
 * Lady Beatrix Louisa Lambton (1859 – 12 March 1944)
 * Hon. George Lambton (23 December 1860 – 23 July 1945)
 * Lady Katherine Frances Lambton (5 September 1862 – 6 December 1952)
 * Maj.-Gen. Hon. Sir William Lambton (4 December 1863 – 11 October 1936)
 * Hon. Claud Lambton (4 January 1865 – 15 February 1945)
 * Hon. D'Arcy Lambton (3 June 1866 – 30 December 1954)
 * Lady Eleanor Lambton (1868 – 24 April 1959)
 * Lady Anne Lambton (1869 – 24 February 1922)
 * 2nd Lt. Hon. Francis Lambton (18 January 1871 – 31 October 1914)


 * John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 18 September 1928)
 * Ethel Elizabeth Louisa Milner (4 September 1860 – 28 October 1931)
 * Letty Lind (21 December 1861 – 27 August 1923)
 * 1) John R. H. Rudge (1892–)

Relations

 * Hon. Cecil Lambton

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Ethel Elizabeth Louisa Milner was in a mental institution for most of her life.
 * 2) Lady Anne Lambton is listed as having been invited, along with the Earl and Countess of Durham, to another of the big social events; Lady E. Lambton is listed for a different one, as are Lady Victoria Lambton and Miss Alice Lambton.
 * 3) *Lady Anne Lambton, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Durham, never married.
 * 4) *Lady Victoria Lambton ( – 30 March 1909) had married Francis William Lambton ( – 6 October 1921), nephew of the William Henry Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840).
 * 5) *Lady Alice Lambton ( – 15 January 1907) was a daughter of William Henry Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham.
 * 6) *Lady E. Lambton is not likely to be Lady Eleanor Lambton (1868 – 24 April 1959), even thought she was the daughter of the 2nd Earl and sister of Lady Anne and John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham, because she married 22 January 1889, becoming Lady Eleanor Gascoyne-Cecil.
 * 7) Elizabeth Rudge (Adelaide Astor) — the sister of Letty Lind (Letitia Elizabeth Rudge) – and George Grossmith married in 1895.
 * 8) Captain the Hon. W. Lambton may be Maj.-Gen. Hon. Sir William Lambton. Needs confirmation: check to see what his rank was in 1897; his page on thepeerage.com doesn't have those promotions.
 * 9) The Hon. Cecil Lambton is still unidentified.