Those Wild Wyndhams (69 page)

9
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
14
February
1901
, Stanway Papers.

10
.
The Times
,
9
May
1910
.

11
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
26
May
1910
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
9
r.

12
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
124
.

13
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, pp.
5
–
6
.

14
. Pamela Tennant to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
12
April
1905
, Blunt Papers, FM
553
-
1975
.

15
. Pamela Tennant to Sidney Cockerell,
22
April
1902
, BL Cockerell Papers, vol. CXLVII, Add. MSS.
52769
ff.
150
–
1
.

16
. Ibid. The lines are a misquotation of Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’: ‘The budding twigs spread out their fan, / To catch the breezy air.’

17
.
The Times
,
29
November
1920
.

18
. Quoted in Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, pp.
88
–
9
.

19
. Ibid., p.
32
.

20
. James,
Rise and Fall
, p.
336
.

21
. John Biggs Davison,
George Wyndham: A Study in Toryism
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1951
), p.
198
; Egremont,
The Cousins
, p.
270
.

22
. George Wyndham to Sibell Grosvenor,
21
January
1906
, quoted in Egremont,
The Cousins
, p.
259
.

23
. Ibid., p.
287
.

24
. Margot Asquith, diary entry,
14
July
1906
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. d.
4204
.

25
. Raymond Asquith, diary entry of
1903
, quoted in John Joliffe,
Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters
(Collins,
1980
), p.
136
.

26
. Marriage Settlement of Margot Tennant, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
21
f.
4
r.

27
. Edward Glenconner to Margot Asquith,
6
August
1919
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6697
. The equivalent in RPI is £
942
,
700
; in ESV £
3
,
657
,
000
; and in EPV £
6
,
873
,
000
.

28
. Margot Asquith, diary entry,
14
July
1906
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. d.
4204
.

29
. Pamela Tennant to Sidney Cockerell,
26
February
1911
, BL Cockerell Papers, vol. CXLVII, Add. MSS.
52769
f.
174
.

30
. Sidney Cockerell to Pamela Tennant,
27
February
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
35
f.
3
r; F. W. Bain to Sidney Cockerell,
24
February
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
37
.

31
. N.d., Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
32
f.
12
r.

32
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, pp.
191
–
2
.

33
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
20
August
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
6
r.

34
. Belloc Lowndes,
A Passing World
, p.
181
.

35
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
7
.

36
. See Blow,
Broken Blood
; and Emma Tennant,
Strangers: A Family Romance
(Jonathan Cape,
1998
);
Waiting for Princess Margaret
(Quartet Books,
2009
).

37
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
188
.

38
. Ibid., p.
117
.

39
. Ibid., p.
124
.

40
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
22
May
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
7
r.

41
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
7
October
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
5
r.

42
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
25
March
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
3
r.

43
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
7
October
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
5
r.

1
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
9
July
1907
(
Letters
, p.
238
).

2
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
16
January
1906
(
Letters
, p.
229
).

3
.
The Times
,
7
July
1916
.

4
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
16
January
1906
(
Letters
, p.
229
).

5
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
26
July
1911
, Stanway Papers.

6
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
31
October
1909
, Stanway Papers.

7
. See for example Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [January
1916
] (
Letters
, pp.
334
–
5
); and
22
May
1920
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
228
/
1
f.
7
r.

8
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, pp.
143
–
5
.

9
. Asquith,
Haply I May Remember
, pp.
210
–
11
.

10
. Ibid., pp.
2
,
225
–
6
.

11
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
9
July
1907
(
Letters
, pp.
238
–
9
).

12
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
12
January
1906
, Stanway Papers.

13
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
20
January
1906
(
Letters
, pp.
229
–
30
).

14
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
15
October
1907
(
Letters
, pp.
242
–
3
).

15
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
16
November
1907
(
Letters
, p.
244
).

16
. Quoted in Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
46
.

17
.
The Times
,
23
October
1906
.

18
. Hattersley,
Lloyd George
, p.
199
.

19
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
14
January
1906
, Stanway Papers.

20
. Hansard
4
,
176
:
1429
,
26
June
1907
.

21
.
Hansard
4
,
188
,
1908
, col
47
.

22
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, p.
14
.

23
. George Wyndham to Percy Wyndham,
14
April
1908
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
608
.

24
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
25
February
1909
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
8
r.

25
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
26
Mary
1909
, Stanway Papers.

26
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
31
January
1909
(
Letters
, p.
255
).

27
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
26
March
1909
, Stanway Papers.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
7
March
1909
, Stanway Papers.

30
. The College, founded in
1907
, was the brainchild of the reclusive Sir William Macdonald and his flamboyant sidekick James W. Robertson, the federal government’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying in the
1890
s, who served as the College’s first president. The College is now part of McGill University in Montreal.

31
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
2
March
1909
, Stanway Papers.

32
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
7
March
1909
, Stanway Papers.

33
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
13
March
1909
, Stanway Papers.

34
. Hansard,
5
C,
4
.
548
,
29
April
1909
.

35
.
The Times
,
22
June
1909
.

36
. Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
241
.

37
. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham,
21
January
1910
, Stanway Papers.

38
. Edward Tennant to Mr Allard,
27
June
1909
, Tennant Papers, NLS
1
.
0172
.

39
.
The Times
,
24
June
1909
.

40
.
The Times
,
11
October
1909
.

41
. Ibid.

42
.
The Times
,
31
July
1909
.

43
.
The Times
,
11
October
1909
.

44
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
3
October
1909
, Stanway Papers.

45
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
31
October
1909
, Stanway Papers.

46
.
The Times
,
3
December
1909
.

1
. Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
241
.

2
. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham,
21
January
1910
, Stanway Papers.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
21
February
1910
, Stanway Papers.

7
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
23
March
1910
(
Letters
, p.
261
).

8
. Ibid.

9
. George Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
15
February
1913
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
737
–
8
.

10
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
23
March
1910
(
Letters
, p.
261
).

11
. Roy Jenkins,
Mr. Balfour’s Poodle: Peers v. People
(Papermac,
1999
), p.
146
.

12
. Ibid., p.
145
.

13
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, p.
127
.

14
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
10
July
1910
, Stanway Papers. Mary was right to anticipate objection. Her design was changed at the last minute, as Margot Asquith challenged Cynthia with the question: ‘Do you want your bridesmaids to look like twelve loaves of bread?’ (Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, p.
127
).