Social Victorians/People/Fortescue

Also Known As

 * Family name: Fortescue
 * Sometimes misspelled as Fortesque
 * Earl of Fortescue
 * Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue (4 September 1861 – 10 October 1905)
 * Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (10 October 1905 – 29 October 1932)
 * Viscount Ebrington (a courtesy title held by the eldest son and heir apparent of the Earl of Fortescue)
 * Hugh Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington (4 September 1861 – 10 October 1905)
 * Hugh William Fortescue, Viscount of Ebrington (10 October 1905 – 29 October 1932)
 * Viscountess Ebrington
 * Emily Ormsby-Gore Fortescue, Viscountess of Ebrington (15 July 1886 – 10 October 1905)

Seymour John Fortescue

 * Henry Keppel

Seymour John Fortescue

 * Royal Navy (1869–1901)
 * Egyptian Campaign, 1882
 * Suakin Campaign, 1885
 * Equerry-in-Waiting to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and then King Edward VII (1893 – 1910)

Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue

 * Liberal Party
 * Member of Parliament
 * House of Commons (1841–1852, 1854– January 1859)
 * House of Lords (1861–1905)

Timeline
1847 March 1, Hugh Fortescue and Georgiana Dawson-Damer married.

1886 July 15, Hugh Fortescue and Emily Ormsby-Gore, who were cousins, married.

1897 July 2, Friday, M. Seymour Fortescue attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1905 October 10, Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue, died, making Hugh Fortescue 4th Earl.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Hon. Sir Seymour John Fortescue (at 296) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. He was dressed as an Avocato or Avocata in the Venetians procession. The Gentlewoman says Mr. Seymour Fortescue was dressed after a picture by Moroni.

Sir Seymour Fortescue's wife Emily Ormsby-Gore Fortescue is not mentioned. Was she at the ball?

A portrait by an unknown photographer of "Sir Seymour John Fortescue as a Venetian Lawyer, after the picture by Moroni in the National Gallery" in costume is photogravure #185 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Hon. Seymour Fortescue as a Venetian Lawyer, after the picture by Moroni in the National Gallery." This is not a photograph of Seymour Fortescue in costume: it appears to be a drawing.

Giovanni Battista Moroni's c. 1570 Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter (L'Avvocato) was acquired by the National Gallery in 1865.

Demographics

 * Nationality: English

Family

 * Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue (4 April 1818 – 10 October 1905)
 * Georgiana Augusta Charlotte Caroline Dawson-Damer
 * 1) Lady Mary Eleanor Fortescue (1849 – 12 October 1938)
 * 2) Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue (1851 – 19 March 1940)
 * 3) Lady Georgiana Seymour Fortescue (1852 – 24 December 1915)
 * 4) Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (16 April 1854 – 29 October 1932)
 * 5) Hon. Sir Seymour John Fortescue (10 February 1856 – 20 March 1942)
 * 6) Hon. Lionel Henry Dudley Fortescue (19 November 1857 – 11 June 1900)
 * 7) Hon. Arthur Grenville Fortescue (24 December 1858 – 3 October 1895)
 * 8) Hon. Sir John William Fortescue (28 December 1859 – 22 October 1933)
 * 9) Hon. Charles Granville Fortescue (30 October 1861 – 1 February 1951)
 * 10) Lady Frances Blanche Fortescue (1865 – 24 October 1950)


 * Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (16 April 1854 – 29 October 1932)
 * Emily Ormsby-Gore (c. 1860 – 12 July 1929)
 * 1) Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue (14 June 1888 – 14 June 1958)
 * 2) Geoffrey Faithful Fortescue (24 Jan. 1891 – 16 October 1900)
 * 3) Denzil George Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue (13 June 1893 – 1 June 1977)

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Sir Seymour Fortescue's wife Emily Ormsby-Gore Fortescue is not mentioned. Was she at the ball?