Social Victorians/People/Kintore

Also Known As

 * Family name: Keith-Falconer
 * Earl of Kintore (Peerage of Scotland, created 1677)
 * Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (18 July 1880 – 3 March 1930)

Timeline
1873 August 14, Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer and Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu married.

1897 July 2, Friday, the Earl and Countess of Kintore attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House, as did their daughter Lady Hilda Madeleine Keith-Falconer.

Algernon, Earl of Kintore and Sydney, Countess of Kintore
Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (at 607) and Sydney, Countess Kintore (at 608) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. Lady Hilda Madeleine Keith-Falconer (at 677) was also present. Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer and Sydney, Countess Kintore had their portraits taken by Bassano, not by Lafayette at the ball.

Alexander Bassano's portrait of "Sydney Charlotte Keith-Falconer (née Montagu), Countess of Kintore as Jane, Duchess of Gordon; Lady Hilda Madeline Keith-Falconer" in costume is photogravure #200 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Countess of Kintore as Jane, Duchess of Gordon (Lady Hilda Madeline Keith-Falconer with her)," with a Long S in Countess and Duchess.

Jane, Duchess of Gordon (1748 or 1749 – 14 April 1812) was married to Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon and was a socially important Tory hostess, both in Edinburgh and London. She was a patron for Robert Burns. Published in the 1849 Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club, this engraving (right) by W. Read is one of a number of engravings of this portrait. The original is by Joshua Reynolds, as the engraving says, but many copies of that painting seem to have been made, both in oils and as an engraving. A copy of that painting that Sydney, Countess of Kintore could conceivably have seen, by Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), is owned now by the National Trust of Scotland, Fyvie Castle. The dress worn by the Duchess of Gordon in the engraving and thus the Reynolds portrait appears to be the original for Sydney, Countess of Kintore's costume.



Lady Hilda Keith Falconer
Alexander Bassano's portrait of "Lady Hilda Madeline Keith-Falconer as Lady Susan Gordon, afterwards Duchess of Manchester" in costume is photogravure #204 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lady Hilda Keith Falconer as Lady Susan Gordon afterwards Duchess of Manchester," with a Long S in Duchess.

Lady Hilda Keith Falconer was the 2nd daughter of the Earl and Countess Kintore. Her older sister, Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer married 16 February 1905. It is not clear why she was not at the ball, if she was not. Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer was not married either at the time of the ball and in fact never married.

Lady Hilda Keith Falconer is in the Album twice. Lady Susan Gordon was the daughter of Jane, Duchess of Gordon, and she did marry William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester. Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer's mother, Sydney, Countess of Kintore, was the daughter of the 6th Duke of Manchester.

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (12 August 1852 – 3 March 1930)
 * Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu (14 October 1851 – 21 September 1932)
 * 1) Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore (20 September 1874 – 21 September 1974)
 * 2) Lady Hilda Madeleine Keith-Falconer (5 November 1875 – 13 July 1967)
 * 3) Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer, Lord Inverurie (5 April 1877 – 26 August 1897)
 * 4) Arthur George Keith-Falconer, 10th Earl of Kintore (5 January 1879 – 25 May 1966)

Relations

 * Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu is the daughter of George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester.

Notes and Questions

 * Was Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer at the ball? Her parents and younger sister were, assuming the Album's information is correct.