Social Victorians/People/Wombwell

Also Known As

 * Family name: Wombwell

George Orby Wombwell

 * At his death in 1913, the last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade

Stephen Frederick Wombwell

 * Trin Hall Cambridge
 * Lieutenant, Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry
 * Captain, Imperial Yeomanry, Boer War

Timeline
1861 September 3, George Wombwell and Lady Julia Sarah Alice Child-Villiers married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Stephen Frederick Wombwell attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1901 February 1, Stephen Frederick Wombwell died in Vryburg, South Africa, of enteric fever.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Stephen Frederick Wombwell (at 671) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. The Gentlewoman says he was dressed in a "black velvet Court costume, period Charles II., [with] slashed white silk."

Lafayette's portrait of "Stephen Frederick Wombwell as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham" in costume is photogravure #167 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Mr. S. Wombwell as George Villiers Duke of Buckingham."

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628) was one of the proteges of King James I, rising from the son of a "minor gentleman" in Leicestershire to his creation as duke in 1623; he was assassinated 3 years into the reign of James's son Charles I. Wombwell may have known about the possibility that George Villiers was James I's lover, as it has been a point of speculation since the two men were alive.

The amazing portrait of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (right) is probably not the original for the costume Wombwell is wearing, but the lace collar is closer than any in the currently available portraits, and the ropes and studs of pearls are amazing, perhaps something Wombwell could not have afforded to carry off. The portrait was painted in 1625–1626, by Dutch portrait painter Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1 May 1567 – 27 June 1641).

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Bt. (23 November 1832 – 16 October 1913)
 * Lady Julia Sarah Alice Child-Villiers (1842 – 24 October 1921)
 * 1) Julia Georgiana Sarah Wombwell ( – 7 February 1938)
 * 2) Mabel Caroline Wombwell ( – 19 December 1948)
 * 3) Cecilia Clementina Wombwell ( – 20 January 1948)
 * 4) George Wombwell (1 November 1865 – 16 January 1889)
 * 5) Stephen Frederick Wombwell (19 February 1867 – 1 February 1901)