Social Victorians/People/de Ramsey

Also Known As

 * Family name: Fellowes
 * Baron de Ramsey of Ramsey Abbey
 * William Henry Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey of Ramsey Abbey (9 August 1887 – 8 May 1925)
 * Ramsey is sometimes misspelled as Ramsay.

William Henry Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey of Ramsey Abbey

 * 1st Life Guards, retired as Captain (16 March 1867 – 21 July 1877)
 * Member of Parliament for Huntingdon, Conservative (1880–1887)
 * Lord-in-Waiting, Government Whip, House of Lords (1890–1892)

Timeline
1877 July 12, Rosamund Jane Frances Spencer-Churchill and William Fellowes married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Rosamund Fellowes, Lady de Ramsey attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.T



Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Rosamund Fellowes, Lady de Ramsey (at 329) was in the Queen Elizabeth procession dressed as Lady Burghley, which the newspapers spell Burleigh. The reports in the Gentlewoman and the Morning Post put her in different places in the procession, but they both agree she was in Elizabethan dress.

Lafayette's portrait of "Rosamond Jane Frances (née Spencer-Churchill), Lady de Ramsey as Lady Burleigh" in costume is photogravure #219 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lady de Ramsey as Lady Burleigh."

The Morning Post says Lady de Ramsey was in the Elizabethan procession, walking with Lady Battersea, and the costume in her portrait could be a late-Victorian interpretation of an Elizabethan collar.

The spelling of the name Burleigh has been unstable over time; it could be Burghley, for example. No Burleigh was alive and influential at the time of Elizabeth I's reign, because Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh, did not get his title until 1607, granted by James I. Edward Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich (at 71) attended the ball dressed as Lord Burleigh in the Queen Elizabeth quadrille, according to the newspapers, when in fact he was probably attending as William Cecil (1520–1598), 1st Baron Burghley, advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. Baron Burghley was married twice, the second time to Mildred Cecil, Baroness Burghley (1526–1589); Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was their son. She was a translator and intellectual and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Rosamund, Lady de Ramsey's husband William, Baron de Ramsey was alive; did he attend the ball?

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * William Henry Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey of Ramsey Abbey (16 May 1848 – 8 May 1925)
 * Rosamund Jane Frances Spencer-Churchill (between 1848–1852 – 3 December 1920)
 * 1) Hon. Alexandra Frances Anne Fellowes (29 June 1880 – 16 September 1955)
 * 2) Hon. Coulson Churchill Fellowes (8 February 1883 – 22 October 1915)
 * 3) Hon. Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes (20 January 1884 – 19 March 1953)
 * 4) Hon. Gladys Cecil Georgina Fellowes (4 January 1885 – 4 August 1952)
 * 5) Hon. Hermione Frances Caroline Fellowes (31 July 1886 – January 1972)
 * 6) Hon. Sybil Inna Mildred Fellowes (24 October 1888 – 18 May 1948

Relations

 * Lord Randolf Churchill and Winston Churchill, through Rosamond's side, as she was a Spencer-Churchill.

Questions and Notes

 * 1) Rosamond Fellowes, Lady de Ramsey attended the ball, but did William Fellowes, Baron de Ramsey?