Social Victorians/People/Tweeddale

Also Known As

 * Family name: Hay
 * Tweeddale, sometimes misspelled as Tweedale
 * Baron Tweeddale of Yester (UK peerage)
 * William Montagu Hay, 1st Baron Tweeddale (6 October 1881 – 25 November 1911)
 * Marquess of Tweeddale
 * William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale (29 December 1878 – 25 November 1911)
 * Marchioness of Tweeddale
 * Candida Louise Bartolucci Hay (29 December 1878 – 1925)
 * Earl of Tweeddale
 * William Montagu Hay, 10th Earl of Tweeddale (29 December 1878 – 25 November 1911)
 * Earl of Gifford
 * William Montagu Hay, 10th Earl of Gifford (29 December 1878 – 25 November 1911)
 * Viscount Walden
 * William Montagu Hay, 10th Viscount Walden (29 December 1878 – 25 November 1911)
 * Violet Tweedale, author and member of the Golden Dawn, is not related: Tweedale is her surname, but the surname of the Marquess of Tweeddale is Hay.

William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquis of Tweeddale

 * House of Commons, Liberal (1865–1868, August 1878 and December 1878)
 * Member of Parliament, Liberal (1881–)
 * Chairman, North British Railway (1878? – )

Timeline
1878 May 18, William Montagu Hay and Candida Louise Bartolucci married.

1897 July 2, Friday, the Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House, as did their eldest daughter, Lady Clementine Hay, and two sons, Lord William George Montagu Hay (who would have been 12) and Lord Arthur Vincent Hay (who would have been 11).

Candida Hay, Marchioness of Tweeddale, Lord Arthur Vincent Hay, and William George Montagu Hay
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Candida Hay, Marchioness of Tweeddale (at 399), was dressed as Joséphine, wife of Napoleon; her sons (at her number in the list, 399) seem to have been the pages who bore her train. Lafayette's portrait of "Lord Arthur Vincent Hay; William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale; Candida Louise, Marchioness of Tweeddale as the Empress Josephine" in costume is photogravure #124 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Marchioness of Tweeddale as the Empress Josephine," with a Long S in Marchioness and Empress.
 * "The Marchioness of Tweeddale represented Josephine in Empire dress of white satin, embroidered in gold bees, thistle-leaves, and wheat, and with a train of geranium pink velvet worked with gold bees."
 * "Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, copied from the picture of her coronation, was impersonated by the Marchioness of Tweeddale, who wore white satin wrought with gold, and a train of geranium-red velvet, trimmed with ermine."
 * She "made a splendid 'Josephine' in Empire dress of white satin, embroidered in gold bees, thistle leaves and wheat, and with a train of geranium pink velvet worked with gold bees."
 * "The Marchioness of Tweeddale made a splendid "Josephine" in empire dress of white satin, embroidered in gold bees, thistle leaves, and wheat, and with a train of geranium pink velvet worked with gold bees."
 * "The Marchioness of Tweeddale was Joséphine, wife of Napoleon, in white satin, wrought with gold and a deep rose-coloured train, trimmed with ermine, and borne by two pages in mauve velvet, embroidered with gold."
 * "The Marchioness of Tweeddale made an effective Josephine."
 * "The Marchioness of Tweeddale (Empress Josephine), while satin embroidered in gold bullion; train of geranium velvet, lined with white satin and embroidered with ermine."

The Coronation of Napoleon (Le Sacre de Napoléon), painted by Jacques-Louis David and completed in 1807, was the source for several costumes at the ball, including Candida, Marchioness of Tweeddale, Countess Clary, Countess Kinsky, and Countess Isabel Deym, who were dressed as Napoleon's three sisters. Some of them can just be seen on the left in the detail of the coronation, above.

William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquis of Tweeddale and Lady Clementine Hay
Lady Clementine Hay (at 629) came out — was introduced to society as a débutante — at the Duchess of Devonshire's ball. William Montagu Hay, the Marquis of Tweeddale (at 400) was dressed as Saint Bris: He and their daughter Clementine Hay appear in the portrait in the NPG Album: Lafayette's portrait of "Lady (Susan Elizabeth) Clementine Waring (née Hay) as Valentina; William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale as St Bris (Les Huguenots)" in costume is photogravure #125 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Marquess of Tweeddale, as St Bris. Lady Clementine Hay as Valentina. (Les Huguenots)."
 * He "personated 'Saint Bris' in the 'Huguenots.'"
 * "The Marquis of Tweeddale personated 'Saint Bris' in the Hugenots."
 * "Marquis of Tweeddale (Elizabethan courtier), black velvet."

The photograph showing Lady Clementine Hay and the Marquis of Tweeddale in costume on the left is from the album of portraits. The photograph on the right is not the one included in the album, but it looks like another pose from the same session. They are dressed as characters from the 1836 opera Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The opera was in regular performance at Covent Garden in the 1890s; the production with Nellie Melba and Emma Albani in 1895 was well attended and attracted particular notice. The Album identifies two men who came as Raoul de Nangis: Douglas Dawson (whose name is wrong in the Album) and Archibald, Lord Acheson, whom the The Gentlewoman says was dressed as "Mignon Henri III."

Demographics

 * Nationality: Hay, Scots; Bartolucci, Italian

Family

 * Field Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (1 February 1787 – 10 October 1876)
 * Lady Susan Montagu (18 September 1797 – 5 March 1870)
 * Lady Susan Georgiana Hay ( – 6 May 1853)
 * Lady Hannah Charlotte Hay ( – 10 November 1887)
 * Lady Jane Hay ( – 13 December 1920)
 * Lady Louisa Jane Hay ( – 9 September 1882)
 * Lady Elizabeth Hay (27 September 1820 – 13 August 1904)
 * George Hay, Earl of Gifford (22 April 1822 – 22 December 1862)
 * Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (9 November 1824 – 29 December 1878)
 * William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale (27 January 1826 – 25 November 1911)
 * Admiral Lord John Hay (23 August 1827 – 4 May 1916)
 * Lady Emily Hay (1836 – 4 April 1924)


 * William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale (27 January 1826 – 25 November 1911)
 * Candida Louise Bartolucci (3 May 1854 – 14 February 1925)
 * 1) Lady (Susan Elizabeth) Clementine Hay (9 August 1879 – )
 * 2) Lady Candida Louisa Hay (25 August 1882 – )
 * 3) William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale (4 November 1884 – 30 March 1967)
 * 4) Lord Arthur Vincent Hay (16 March 1886 – 14 September 1914)
 * 5) Maj.-Gen. Lord Edward Douglas John Hay (2 November 1888 – 18 June 1944)

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Had there been a recent production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots?