Social Victorians/People/Kerry

Also Known As

 * Family name: Petty-FitzMaurice
 * Earl of Kerry
 * Henry William Edmund Petty-FitzMaurice (1872–1927)
 * The Earl of Kerry is a courtesy title of the Marquess of Lansdowne

Timeline
1897 July 2, the Earl of Kerry attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. Also present were his parents, the 5th Marquess and Marchioness of Lansdowne (Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice and Maud Hamilton Petty-Fitzmaurice) and their daughter, Beatrix Petty-FitzMaurice. Besides Henry, Earl of Kerry (#72 on the list of people who attended), also present were Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice's brother, Edmund Fitzmaurice (#627), and a Lady C. Fitzmaurice (#365).

1904 February 16, Henry William Edmund Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry, and Elizabeth Caroline Hope married at St. Marylebone Church, London.

Henry, the Earl of Kerry
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Henry William Edmund Petty-FitzMaurice, the Earl of Kerry was dressed as Count Mercy d'Argentau in the Austrian Court of Maria Theresa Quadrille.

The descriptions of his costume in the newspapers are quite similar:
 * "Gentleman of Louis XVI. period, in plum-coloured velvet, trimmed with gold."
 * "a gentleman of Louis XVI. period, in plum-coloured velvet, trimmed with gold."
 * "the Earl of Kerry [wore] a Louis XVI. costume in plum-coloured velvet and gold"
 * "(gentleman of the period Louis XVI.), plum-coloured velvet with gold."
 * "The E ARL OF K ERRY, as a Gentleman of the Louis XVI. period, was in plum-coloured velvet, trimmed with gold."

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * Henry William Edmund Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry and later 6th Marquess of Lansdowne (14 January 1872 – 5 March 1936)
 * Elizabeth Caroline Hope (4 March 1885 – 25 March 1964)
 * 1) Katherine Evelyn Constance Petty-FitzMaurice, Lady Nairne (22 June 1912 – 20 October 1995)
 * 2) Henry Maurice John Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry (7 October 1913 – 12 September 1933)
 * 3) Charles Hope Petty-FitzMaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne (9 January 1917 – 20 August 1944)
 * 4) Lord Edward Norman Petty-FitzMaurice (28 July 1922 – 11 August 1944)
 * 5) Lady Elizabeth Mary Petty-FitzMaurice (16 March 1927 – 28 June 2016)