Social Victorians/People/Suffield

Also Known As

 * Family name: Harbord
 * Baron Suffield
 * Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield (22 August 1853 – 9 April 1914)

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield (2 January 1830 – 9 April 1914)
 * Cecilia Annetta Baring (c. 1834 – 16 February 1911)
 * Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield (14 June 1855 – 10 February 1924)
 * Hon. Cecilia Margaret Harbord (15 June 1856 – 6 October 1934)
 * Hon. Alice Marion Harbord (23 June 1857 – 13 September 1940)
 * Hon. Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord (23 February 1860 – 19 February 1956)
 * Hon. Assheton Edward Harbord (20 January 1861 – 18 July 1929)
 * Hon. Judith Harbord (12 June 1862 – 4 February 1942)
 * Hon. Winifred Harbord (31 December 1864 – 6 January 1949)
 * Hon. Eleanor Harbord (7 January 1868 – 12 July 1939)
 * Hon. Bridget Louisa Harbord (20 December 1870 – 24 September 1951)
 * Frances Amelia Jesse Eliot Gabbett ( – 2 April 1934)

Friends

 * Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

Cecilia Annetta Baring, Lady Sheffield

 * Household of Queen Victoria, Lady of the Bedchamber
 * Household of Queen Alexandra, Lady of the Bedchamber

Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield

 * Liberal Party
 * Household of Queen Victoria, Aide-de-Camp (1868–1872)
 * Household of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Lord of the Bedchamber (1872–1901)
 * Under William Gladstone, Master of the Buckhounds (February–July 1886)
 * Master of the Robes, Coronation of King Edward VII and Alexandra (1902)

Timeline
1854 May 4, Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield and Cecilia Annetta Baring married.

1897 July 2, Lord and Lady Suffield, and Miss Harbord attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

1911 July 15, Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield and Frances Amelia Jesse Eliot Gabbett married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Charles Harbord, Lord Suffield (at 535) and Cecilia Harbord, Lady Suffield (at 536) and their daughter Bridget Harbord attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Miss Bridget Harbord
The Hon. Bridget Harbord (at 398) was dressed as the Bride of Abydos, from Byron's 1813 poem.


 * "The Hon. Bridget Harbord, as the Bride of Abydos, was in a pure white and silver Greek robe embroidered in pearls and diamonds and a little / Turkish cap."
 * "She was dressed "as 'The Bride of Abydos,' in a pure white and silver Greek robe, embroidered in pearls and diamonds, and a little Turkish cap."
 * "Charming, too, was the Honourable Bridget Harbord, as 'the Bride of Abydos,' in a pure white and silver Greek robe embroidered in pearls and diamonds, and a little Turkish cap."
 * "The Hon. Miss Bridget Harbord (Bride of Abydos), white and silver gauze, embroidered in diamonds and other precious stones."

The Bride of Abydos
The 1813 poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron is set in Turkey. The bride is Zuleika, and she loves Selim, who is said to be her brother.