Social Victorians/People/Minto

Also Known As

 * Family name: Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, sometimes Elliot
 * Earl of Minto
 * Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (17 March 1891 – 1 March 1914)
 * Viscount Melgund
 * Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound ( – 17 March 1891)
 * Victor Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1891?)
 * Viscountess Melgund
 * The title Viscount Melgund is a courtesy title for the heir presumptive and eldest son of the Earl of Minto.
 * The Right Hon. Sir Henry Elliot
 * Rt. Hon. Sir Henry George Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound

The Right Hon. Henry George Elliot

 * Ambassador, the Court of St. James's to the Ottoman Empire (1867–1877)
 * Ambassador, the Court of St. James's to Austria (1877–1884)
 * Member, Committee, St. George's Chess Club (1884)

Timeline
1878 January 16, Henry Elliot had an audience with Queen Victoria.

1881 October 26, Francis Ford and Marie Ford married.

1883 July 28, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound and Mary Caroline Grey married.

1895 April 16, Mary Caroline Grey Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess Minto was granted the rank of an earl's daughter.

1897 July 2, Friday, Lady Minto attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House, as did Mr. Elliot.

1898 summer, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound was named Governor General of Canada, and the couple moved to Ottowa.

Mary, Countess of Minto
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Mary, Countess Minto (at 544) was Princess Andrillon.

Henry Van der Weyde's portrait of "Mary Caroline (née Grey), Countess of Minto as Princess Andrillon" in costume is photogravure #96 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 Minto as Princess Andrillon," with a Long S in Countess and Princess.

Gilbert, Earl of Minto was still alive; was he at the ball?

The Right Hon. Henry George Elliot
Henry Elliot (at 279) was one of the group called Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court in the procession of the Empress Catherine II of Russia.

Anne Antrobus Elliot was still alive at this time; did she attend the ball?

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (9 July 1845 – 1 March 1914)
 * Lady Mary Caroline Grey Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1858–1940)
 * 1) Lady Eileen Nina Evelyn Sibell Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound Scott (13 December 1884 – 29 May 1938)
 * 2) Lady Ruby Florence Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound Baring (26 September 1886 – 5 November 1961)
 * 3) Lady Violet Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound Petty-Fitzmaurice Astor (28 May 1889 – 3 January 1965)
 * 4) Victor Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 5th Earl of Minto (12 February 1891 – 11 January 1975)
 * 5) Hon. Gavin William Esmond Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (born 25 April 1895 – 6 August 1917)

Henry George Elliot

 * Henry George Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (30 June 1817 – 30 March 1907)
 * Anne Antrobus ( – 17 December 1899)
 * Sir Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (24 March 1851 – 20 January 1940)
 * Gertrude Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (17 August 1855 – 23 December 1947)


 * Sir Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (24 March 1851 – 20 January 1940)
 * Marie (Henrietta Augusta Mary) Ford ( – 26 February 1938)
 * Katherine Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (8 November 1882 – 11 November 1964)
 * Frances Clara Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (31 March 1885 – 28 November 1967)
 * Dorothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (30 October 1888 – )
 * Violet Marie Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (17 March 1896 – )

Relatives

 * The Right Hon. Sir Henry Elliot was the son of the 2nd Earl of Minto.

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Who was Princess Andrillon?