Those Wild Wyndhams (58 page)

4
. Percy Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
31
July
1860
, Petworth Papers.

5
. Percy Wyndham to Fanny Montgomery,
3
August
1862
, cited in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
20
.

6
. Quoted in D. G. Boyce,
The Irish Question and British Politics
1868
–
1996
(
2
nd edn, Macmillan,
1996
), p.
1
.

7
. Lawrence James,
Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence – Britain’s Great Ruling Classes from
1066
to the Present
(Little, Brown,
2009
), p.
314
.

8
. Katharine Tynan Hinkson,
The Years of the Shadow
(Constable,
1919
), p.
256
.

9
. Ibid., p.
257
.

10
. Max Egremont,
The Cousins
(Collins,
1977
), p.
21
.

11
. John Darwin,
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World System
1830
–
1970
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2009
), p.
26
n.
1
.

12
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
153
.

13
. Percy Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
1
August
1860
, Petworth Papers.

14
. Percy Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
5
August
1860
, Petworth Papers.

15
. Conversation with Mrs James Adeane,
c
.
2008
.

16
. Lady Campbell to Lord Leconfield,
12
July
1860
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
17
.

17
. See the correspondence between Henry Brydon, the lawyer responsible for the transaction, Percy Wyndham and Lord Leconfield in September and October
1860
, Petworth Papers. The money, £
35
,
727
16
s
5
d in consols, was transferred from Lord Leconfield’s account at the Bank of England on
19
September
1860
. Lord Leconfield was charged £
1
1
s
6
d for the transaction. On
10
October, it was transferred to the trustees of the marriage settlement – Percy’s elder brother Henry, and Adolphus Liddell, a lifelong friend of Percy and Madeline’s, and in time a close friend of their children. The equivalent in today’s money is £
2
,
754
,
000
in RPI, £
30
,
250
,
000
in ESV and £
66
,
340
,
000
in EPV. The settlement was signed by Percy and Madeline either the day before or the morning of their marriage.

18
. ‘Heads of Settlement by the Honourable Percy Scawen Wyndham on his marriage with Miss Campbell of Woodview, Stillorgan near Dublin, daughter of the late Sir Guy Campbell, Bart., of £
35
,
000
consols’, Petworth Papers. When Percy’s brother Henry married Constance Primrose, granddaughter of the Earl of Rosebery, some seven years later, Lord Leconfield provided the same amount for her. However, Constance matched this with the dowry she brought to the marriage herself.

19
. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant,
14
January
1898
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
32
f.
24
r.

20
. Mary, Countess of Wemyss,
A Family Record
(Plaistow, Curwen Press,
1932
), pp.
19
–
20
.

21
. Nancy Waters Ellenberger, ‘Constructing George Wyndham: Narratives of Aristocracy in Fin-de-Siècle England’,
Journal of British Studies
39
:
4
(October
2000
):
487
–
517
,
496
.

22
. Bernard Cracroft, ‘The Analysis of the House of Commons, or Indirect Representation’, in
Essays on Reform
, quoted in Lawrence Stone and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone,
An Open Elite? England
1500
–
1880
(Oxford, Clarendon Press,
1984
), p.
422
.

23
. Quoted in Leonore Davidoff,
The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette and the Season
(Croom Helm,
1974
), p.
64
.

24
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
11
.

25
. G. F. Watts to Madeline Wyndham, quoted in Mary S. Watts,
George Frederic Watts: The Annals of an Artist’s Life
,
2
vols (Macmillan,
1912
),
1
.
239
–
41
.

26
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
20
–
1
.

27
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
35
.

28
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
16
August
1921
, Blunt Papers, FM
225
-
1976
.

29
. Ibid.

30
. Lady Campbell to Percy Wyndham, quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
20
.

31
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
7
December
1899
, Stanway Papers.

32
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
17
February
1871
, Petworth Papers.

33
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
8
October
1874
, Petworth Papers.

34
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, n.d. [
1874
], Petworth Papers.

35
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
21
.

36
. Ibid.,
1
.
19
.

37
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
16
August
1895
(
Letters
, pp.
138
–
9
).

38
. Christine
Kinealy,
This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine
1845
–
52
(Dublin, Gill & Macmillan,
1994
),
p.
357
.

39
. Edith Olivier,
Four Victorian Ladies of Wiltshire
(Faber & Faber,
1940
), p.
92
.

40
. Ibid., p.
93
.

41
. George Wyndham to Edward Clifford, September
1895
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
287
.

42
. Percy Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
12
August
1860
, Petworth Papers.

43
. Ellenberger, ‘Constructing George Wyndham’, p.
497
.

44
. Mary Elcho to Margot Asquith,
3
May
1911
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. d.
3283
.

45
. As she grew older, the Wyndhams’ second daughter more frequently used ‘Madeline’. In order, however, to distinguish between mother and daughter, I refer throughout to Madeline (daughter) as Mananai, except where I use her married name, Madeline Adeane. Doubtless Mananai would have understood, as even she was capable of being caught out on occasion by the family’s faithful adherence to a mere handful of names: ‘[T]here were two Madelines in the house, two Pamelas, two Percys … three Guys … so it was rather confusing’ Mananai commented of a visit by Campbell cousins to Wilbury in
1883
(Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
16
September
1883
, Stanway Papers).

46
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
36
.

47
. Ibid
.

48
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
16
.

49
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, n.d. [November,
1869
], Petworth Papers.

50
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
25
October [
1869
], Stanway Papers.

51
. Jerry White,
London in the Nineteenth Century
(Vintage,
2008
), pp.
371
–
2
.

52
. Quoted in David Marquand,
Britain since
1918
: The Strange Career of British Democracy
(Orion,
2008
), p.
33
.

53
. White,
London in the Nineteenth Century
, p.
137
.

54
. Marquand,
Britain since
1918
, p.
53
.

55
. See G. F. Watts to Madeline Wyndham in Watts,
George Frederic Watts
,
1
.
239
–
41
,
325
–
6
.

56
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
57
.

57
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
c
.September
1884
, Stanway Papers.

58
. Philip Burne-Jones to Lady Frances Balfour,
15
October
1889
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
301
f.
72
.

59
. For the suggestion that this is so, see Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
129
; and Jane Abdy and Charlotte Gere,
The Souls
(Sidgwick & Jackson,
1984
), pp.
90
–
1
.

60
. Cynthia Asquith,
Haply I May Remember
(James Barrie,
1950
), p.
138
.

61
. See Pamela Tennant’s recollection in her letter to Mary Elcho,
13
March
1928
, Stanway Papers.

62
. See Madeline Wyndham’s response to Mary Elcho’s miscarriage in
1884
and Madeline Adeane’s stillborn child in
1899
.

63
. Elizabeth Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1979
), p.
172
.

64
. Frederic Harrison,
Autobiographic Memoirs
,
2
vols (Macmillan,
1911
),
2
.
166
,
173
.

65
. Katherine Tynan Hinkson,
Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences
(John Murray,
1913
), pp.
302
–
3
.

66
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diaries, quoted in Longford,
A Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
102
.

67
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, ‘Alms to Oblivion’, Part V, Chapter III, Blunt Papers, FM
311
-
1975
.

68
. Blunt Papers, K
6115
.

69
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
45
; Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
24
.

70
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diaries, quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
102
.

71
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, ‘Alms to Oblivion’, Part V, Chapter III, Blunt Papers, FM
311
-
1975
.

72
. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant,
1
June
1896
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
30
.

1
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, pp.
157
,
310
.

2
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
22
November
1900
, Stanway Papers.

3
. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant,
23
December
1896
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
32
.

4
. Cynthia Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
(James Barrie,
1952
), p.
192
.

5
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
20
.

6
. Richard Davenport-Hines,
Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
2008
), p.
83
.

7
. Mary Elcho to Guy Wyndham,
11
May
1877
, Stanway Papers. For Mary’s recollection of herself at this time see Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
16
August
1895
(
Letters
, pp.
138
–
9
).