20 Albermarle Street, Albermarle Street

On 15 Jul 1884 Henry Richard Charles Wellesley 1st Earl Cowley 1804-1884 (80) died at 20 Albermarle Street, Albermarle Street. He was buried at Draycott. His son William Henry Wellesley 2nd Earl Cowley 1834-1895 (49) succeeded 2nd Earl Cowley (1C 1857), 2nd Viscount Dangan of Meath (1C 1857), 3rd Baron Cowley (1C 1828).

32 Albermarle Street, Albermarle Street

On 23 Oct 1864 Victor Albert Francis Spencer 3rd Baron Churchill Wychwood 1864-1934 was born to Francis George Spencer 2nd Baron Churchill Wychwood 1802-1886 (62) and Jane Conyngham Baroness Churchill 1826-1900 (38) at 32 Albermarle Street, Albermarle Street.

York House Hotel, Albermarle Street

On 16 Jan 1801 George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert 2nd Earl Powis 1755-1801 (45) died at York House Hotel, Albermarle Street. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Welshpool, Radnorshire, Welsh March. His sister Henrietta Antonia Herbert 3rd Countess Powis 1758-1830 (42) succeeded 3rd Earl Powis (2C 1748).

11 Berkeley Square, Mayfair

Before 15 Jun 1778 Cecil Bisshop 6th Baronet Bishopp 1700-1778 owned a house at 11 Berkeley Square, Mayfair which was subsequently bought from his heirs by Horace Walpole 4th Earl Orford 1717-1797 in 1779.

13 Berkeley Square, Mayfair

On 19 Jun 1877 Admiral Henry John Rous 1795-1877 (82) died at 13 Berkeley Square, Mayfair.

14 Berkeley Square, Mayfair

On 12 Apr 1792 John "Radical Jack" Lambton 1st Earl Durham 1792-1840 was born to William Henry Lambton 1764-1797 (28) and Anne Barbara Frances Villiers 1772-1832 (20) at 14 Berkeley Square, Mayfair.

38 Berkeley Square, Mayfair

Times Newspaper Marriages. 28 Jan 1937. THE DUKE OF NORFOLK AND MISS STRUTT
Princess Alice Countess of Athlone (53) and Major-General the Earl of Athlone (63), and Prince Arthur of Connaught (54) were present yesterday afternoon at the marriage at Brompton Oratory of the Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer and Hereditary Earl Marshal of England (28), and the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt (20), only daughter of Lord Belper (53) and the Countess of Rosebery (44).
Princess Alice (53) wore a mink coat over a dress of burgundy-red crepe, with a small red hat to match.
The Oratory was decorated with four large stands of flowers, placed at the chancel steps. They were in mixed shades of red and included amaryllis lilies, poinsettia, anthuriums, roses, carnations, and red leaves. While the guests were arriving the organist played Mendelssohn's Allegretto from the Fourth Sonata, Elgar's Allegro Maestoso from the First Sonata, and the prelude and fugue in E flat, and the organ choral "Mortify us by Thy Goodness" by J. S. Bach.
The bride (20) arrived with her father, Lord Belper (53), and was loudly cheered by the crowd outside the Oratory, who broke through the police cordon. She walked up the nave to Handel's March from the Occasional Oratorio, and was met by Father Talbot and Father John Cuddon. Miss Strutt (20) wore a classically simple dress of silver lame, cut on straight sheath lines with long tight sleeves and a high round roll collar. The skirt just touched the ground and was continued at the back to form a long square train. She wore a girdle of silver cord knotted in front. Her long veil of white tulle fell from a simple coronet of orange-blossom and green leaves, and she carried a sheaf of arum lilies. She was followed by six little pages-Robin Herbert, Timothy Hunloke, Bob McCreery, John Scrope, George Vivian-Smith, and Michael Watt; and by six bridesmaids-Lady Katharine (25) and Lady Winefride Howard (23) (sisters of the bridegroom), Lady Anne Bridgeman (23), the Hon. Pamela Digby (16), Miss Gillian Drummond, and Miss Nancy Malcolmnson. The bridegroom's (28) racing colours, pale blue and scarlet, were introduced into the dresses and suits of the attendants. The pages were in pale blue satin suits piped with scarlet, and the bridesmaids wore dresses of sky-blue corded crepe, with touches of scarlet at the waistline. They had high rounded necklines with long bell sleeves and their headdresses of red bavardia were massed in front. They carried bouquets of red flowers, including tulips, amaryllis lilies, carnations, and euphorbia. The bridegroom gave them brooches showing his and his bride's initials in rubies and diamonds. The Earl of Eldon (37) was best man.
The marriage service was very short and non-choral, as the bride (20) is not a Roman Catholic. After they had plighted their troth Father Ronald Knox gave an address from the centre of the transept. The bride (20) and bridegroom (28) remained kneeling at the chancel steps, facing the altar. They then went in procession to the vestry, where the registrar, Mr. J. P. Bond, conducted the civil ceremony.
Afterwards the bride (20) and bridegroom (28) left for 38, Mayfair (the residence of the Earl of Rosebery (55)), where the Countess of Rosebery (44) held a reception. The bride (20) went away for the honeymoon in a dress of black and red shot silk taffeta, under a broadtail coat with a fur cap to match.
Among those present at the Oratory were:
The Earl (55) and Countess of Rosebery (44).
The Duchess of Norfolk (60),
Lady Rachel Howard (32).
Lady Belper,
the Hon. Alexander (24) and the Hon. Michael Strutt (23), the Hon. Mrs. Parry-Evans. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Vernon Malcolmsonson, Lord and Lady Aberdare, the Hon. Margaret Strutt, the Hon. Mrs. Frank Hormsby, etc.

45 Berkeley Square, Mayfair

On 16 May 1839 Edward Clive 1st Earl Powis 1754-1839 (85) died at 45 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Bromfield, Ludlow.

On 07 May 1891 Edward Herbert 2nd Earl Powis 1818-1891 (72) died in 45 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. She was buried in St Mary's Church, Welshpool, Radnorshire, Welsh March.

Charles Street, Mayfair

On 10 Jan 1810 Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville 1810-1899 was born to Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville 1776-1859 (33) and Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville -1865 at Charles Street, Mayfair.

On 28 Mar 1818 George Greville 4th Earl Warwick, 4th Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1818-1893 was born to Henry Greville 3rd Earl Warwick, 3rd Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1779-1853 (38) at Charles Street, Mayfair.

Times Newspaper Marriages. 25 Jan 1865. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. The marriage of the Earl of Coventry (26) and Lady Blanche Craven (22), third daughter of Earl Craven (55), was solemnized yesterday morning at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The bridegroom and the frieNds of both families assembled at the church at 11 o'clock, and shortly afterwards were joined by the bride (22), accompanied by her mother, the Countess Craven (48). The bride (22) was received by her father (26) at the church door, and, attended by eight bridesmaids, proceeded at once to the communion table, in front ot which a numerous company had assembled, including the Earl (65) and Countess of Clarendon (54) and Lady Emily Villiers (22), the Countess of Verulam (40) and Lady Harriet Grimston (20), Viscount and Viscountees Folkestone (43) and Hon. Miss Bouverie, the Countess of Sefton (27) and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, Viscount Chelsea (24), and Lady Caroline Townley (27) and Miss Townley, Viscount Uffington (23), Sir Henry and Latly Sophia Des Voeux, Hon. Mr. and Mrs Coventry, Hon. Gerald and Ladv Maria Ponsonby, Mr. Oswald andl Miss Oswald, Dr. Quin, Mr. Cecil Boothby, Mr. James Oswald, Miss Talbot, Viscount (32) and Viscountess Grey de Wilton (28), Lady Evelyn Bruce, Hon. Mrs. Grimston and Miss Griniston, &c.
The Hon. and Rev. Edward Grimston (52), uncle of the bride, performed the religious rite. After the registration of the marriage the wedding party left the church, and procceded to the Earl (55) and Countess Craven's (48) mansion in Charles-street, Mayfair. At 2 o'clock the newly-wedded couple took their departure for Croome Court, tbe Earl of Coventry's (26) seat, near Upton, there to pass the honeymoon. At Croome Pirton and Severn Stoke, the marriage was celebrated yesterday by the tenantry and neighbours of the Earl of Coventry (26). The tenantry of the Croome Pirton and Severn Stoke estates, to ths number of about 100, dined together in two parties yesterday at Severn Stoke and High-green. At Pirton and Severn Stoke garlands of evergreens and flags were hung out over the roads, and at night a bonfire was lighted at High-green. The rejoicings have extended over all his Lordship's (26) large estates in the southern portion of Worcestershire. The inhabitants of Worcester celebrated the marriage by hoisting flags frem tile windows and streamers across the streets. The bells from the various churches rang merry peals all day.
George Coventry 9th Earl Coventry (26) and Blanche Craven Countess Coventry 1842-1930 (22) were married. Blanche Craven Countess Coventry 1842-1930 (22) by marriage Countess Coventry.

Earl of Powis' House, Mayfair

On 07 Mar 1812 William Eliot 2nd Earl St Germans 1767-1845 (44) and Charlotte Robinson 1790-1813 (22) were married at Earl of Powis' House, Mayfair.

Hill Street, Mayfair

On 17 Mar 1794 Edward Cust 1st Baronet Cust 1794-1878 was born to Brownlow Cust 1st Baron Brownlow 1744-1807 (49) and Frances Bankes Baroness Brownlow at Hill Street, Mayfair.

John Street, Mayfair

Lansdowne House, Mayfair

On 30 Mar 1811 William Petty-Fitzmaurice 1811-1836 was born to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess Lansdowne 1780-1863 (30) and Louisa Fox-Strangeways Marchioness Lansdowne -1851 at Lansdowne House, Mayfair.

On 21 Aug 1836 William Petty-Fitzmaurice 1811-1836 (25) died at Lansdowne House, Mayfair.

Claridge's Hotel, Brook Street

On 30 Mar 1852 George Montagu Bennet 7th Earl Tankerville 1852-1931 was born to Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville 1810-1899 (42) and Olivia Montagu Countess Tankerville 1830-1922 (21) at Claridge's Hotel, Brook Street.

Lower Brooke Street, Brook Street

On 14 Feb 1824 George Barrington 7th Viscount Barrington 1824-1886 was born to William Keppel Barrington 6th Viscount Barrington 1793-1867 (30) and Jane Elizabeth Liddell Viscountess Barrington 1804-1883 (19) in Lower Brooke Street, Brook Street.

16 Bruton Street

On 25 Jan 1875 Evelyn Stanhope Countess Carnarvon 1834-1875 (40) died at 16 Bruton Street.

Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street

John Evelyn's Diary 1691 July. 18 Jul 1691. To London to hear Mr. Stringfellow preach his first sermon in the newly erected Church of Trinity, in Conduit Street; to which I did recommend him to Dr. Tenison (54) for the constant preacher and lecturer. This Church, formerly built of timber on Hounslow-Heath by King James (57) for the mass priests, being begged by Dr. Tenison (54), rector of St. Martin's, was set up by that public-minded, charitable, and pious man near my son's dwelling in Dover Street, chiefly at the charge of the Doctor (54). I know him to be an excellent preacher and a fit person. This Church, though erected in St. Martin's, which is the Doctor's parish, he was not only content, but was the sole industrious mover, that it should be made a separate parish, in regard of the neighborhood having become so populous. Wherefore to countenance and introduce the new minister, and take possession of a gallery designed for my son's family, I went to London, where, [NOTE. Text runs out?].

John Evelyn's Diary 1692 January. 12 Jan 1692. My granddaughter was christened by Dr. Tenison (55), now Bishop of Lincoln, in Trinity Church (assumed to be a reference to the new church described on 18 Jul 1691), being the first that was christened there. She was named Jane.

Mayfair Chapel, Curzon Street

Marriage of James Duke Hamilton and Elizabeth Gunning on the Day they Met

On 14 Feb 1752 James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton, 3rd Duke Brandon -1758 (27) and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton 1733-1790 (18) met for the first time at a Valentine's Ball at Bedford House, Covent Garden. He proposed marriage.
James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton, 3rd Duke Brandon -1758 (27) and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton 1733-1790 (18) were married at Mayfair Chapel, Curzon Street the same night; the location being one where he didn't require a license. This before the Marriage Act of 1753. Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton 1733-1790 (18) by marriage Duchess Hamilton, Duke Brandon of Suffolk.

On Mar 1769 Evelyn Pierrepoint 2nd Duke Kingston upon Hull 1711-1773 (58) and Elizabeth 1721-1788 (47) were married alledgedly bigamously at Mayfair Chapel, Curzon Street. Elizabeth 1721-1788 (47) by marriage Duchess Kingston upon Hull.

Mount Street, Grosvenor Square

On 26 Dec 1786 Colonel William Berkeley 1st Earl Fitzhardinge 1786-1857 was born illegitimately to Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley 1745-1810 (41) at Mount Street, Grosvenor Square and Mary Cole.

On 03 Jan 1788 Admiral Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley 1788-1867 was born illegitimately to Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley 1745-1810 (43) at Mount Street, Grosvenor Square and Mary Cole.

On 26 Mar 1789 Augustus Fitzhardinge Berkeley 1789-1872 was born illegitimately to Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley 1745-1810 (44) at Mount Street, Grosvenor Square and Mary Cole.

On 02 Apr 1790 Maria FitzHardinge Berkeley 1790-1793 was born illegitimately to Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley 1745-1810 (45) at Mount Street, Grosvenor Square and Mary Cole. On 02 Jun 1793 Maria FitzHardinge Berkeley 1790-1793 (3) died.

On 13 Jun 1793 Henrietta FitzHardinge Berkeley 1793-1819 was born illegitimately to Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley 1745-1810 (48) at Mount Street, Grosvenor Square and Mary Cole.

On 07 Dec 1794 Francis Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 1794-1870 was born illegitimately to Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley 1745-1810 (49) at Mount Street, Grosvenor Square and Mary Cole.

Upper Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Street

On 08 Apr 1788 Horace Pitt-Rivers 3rd Baron Rivers 1777-1831 (10) and Frances Rigby -1860 were married at her father's house in Upper Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Street.

On 23 Jul 1802 Anne Maria Bonnell Duchess Somerset -1802 died in Upper Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Street.

My Recollections by Adeline Horsey Countess Cardigan 1824-1915 Chapter IV: Presented at Court. One of my most amusing experiences about this time originated in my wish to see a rather risque play at the Princess's Theatre.
" Papa," said I one morning at breakfast, " I wish you would take me to the Princess's Theatre : every one's talking about the play. Do let us go this evening."
" Quite impossible," answered papa, with great decision. "Quite impossible, Adeline — I am dining to-night with General Cavendish at the Club, a long-standing engagement, and," he continued, in a tone of conscious virtue, "even if I were disengaged, I should not think of taking my daughter to see such a play ; nothing, my dear, is so degrading as a public display of lax morals, and it is the duty of every self-respecting person to discountenance such a performance. Let me hear no more about it " ; and he opened the Times with an air of finality.
The evergreen fabrication of "going to the Club," the most obvious and clumsy of lies invented by man to deceive woman, was as flourishing then as it is to-day. Perhaps it was more successful, as the telephone was not invented. I quite believed papa's statement, but I was deceived, as subsequent events proved.
I was very much annoyed. All the morning I brooded over papa's refusal, and then I suddenly made up my mind that I would go to the play in spite of him.
I rang for my maid. " Parker," I said, "go at once to the Princess's Theatre and bespeak a box for me, and be ready to come with me to-night."
"Alone, miss?" ventured Parker.
" Yes, alone, now don't waste a moment " ; and no sooner had she set off than I wrote and despatched a letter to Lord Cardigan, who was a friend of papa, and asked him to come to my box at the Princess's that evening.
Parker and I arrived early and I settled down to enjoy myself. The overture commenced, and I was just about to inspect the audience when Lord Cardigan came into the box ; he was rather agitated. " Miss de Horsey," he said, without any preliminaries, "you must leave the theatre at once."
" I'll do no such thing," I cried angrily. " What on earth is the matter? "
" Well," reluctantly answered Cardigan — "well, Miss de Horsey, your father and General Cavendish are in the box opposite — with " (he looked at me apologetically) — " with their mistresses ! It will never do for you to be seen. Do, I implore you, permit me to escort you home before the performance begins."
I was seized with an uncontrollable desire to laugh. So this was the long-standing engagement, this papa's parade of morality ! I peeped out from the curtains of the box — it was quite true ; directly opposite to me there sat papa and the General, with two very pretty women I did not remember seeing before.
" I shall see the play," I said to Lord Cardigan, "and you'll put me into a cab before it is over ; I shall be home before papa returns from — the ' Club ' " ; and I laughed again at the idea.
I spent a most exciting evening hidden behind the curtains, and I divided my attention between papa and the performance. About the middle of the last act we left. Lord Cardigan hailed a hackney-carriage and gave the driver directions where to go ; he then wished me good-night and a safe return. It was a foggy evening, and the drive seemed interminable. I became impatient. "Parker," I said, " lower the window and tell the man to make haste."
Parker obeyed, and I heard an angry argument in the fog. She sat down with a horrified face and announced : " we are nearly at Islington — and the driver's drunk ! "
Here was a pretty state of things ! " Parker, tell him to stop at once." She did so, and I got out to ascertain what was happening. The man was drunk, but I succeeded in fightening him into turning his horse's head in the direction of Upper Grosvenor Street, and we set off again.
Theatres were " out " much earlier then than now, but it must have taken a long time to reach Mayfair, for I heard midnight strike when the cab stopped at the end of the street. I sent Parker on to open the door while I paid the man, and I devoutly hoped the " Club " had proved attractive enough to prevent papa returning; home before me. As I stood in front of No. 8 the door was opened — not by Parker but by papa. I felt I was in for a mauvais quart d'heure, but I walked quietly into the hall. " Adeline," said papa in an awful voice, "explain yourself. Where have you been.-* Is this an hour for a young lady to be out of doors? How dare you conduct yourself in this manner ? ". The courage of despair seized me — and, let me confess it, a spice of devilment also. I faced my angry parent quite calmly. "I've been to the Princess's Theatre, papa, I said demurely (he started) ; and I saw you and General Cavendish there ; I thought you were dining at the Club . . . and I saw . . .". "Go to bed at once, Adeline," interrupted papa, looking very sheepish, "we'll talk about your behaviour later." But he never mentioned the subject to me again !.

St George's Church, Hanover Square

On 21 Feb 1733 William Talbot 1st Earl Talbot 1710-1782 (22) and Mary Cardonnel Countess Talbot were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 10 Apr 1744 George Venables-Vernon 1st Baron Vernon Kinderton Chester 1709-1780 (35) and Martha Harcourt Baroness Vernon Kinderton Chester 1715-1794 (28) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 22 Jun 1744 William Fitzwilliam 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam 1720-1756 (24) and Anne Watson Countess Fitzwilliam -1769 were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. Anne Watson Countess Fitzwilliam -1769 by marriage Countess Fitzwilliam, Baron Fitzwilliam.

On 29 Sep 1746 Henry Scott 3rd Duke Buccleuch 1746-1812 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

Before 17 May 1748 Charles Mordaunt 1748-1780 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 15 Jun 1749 John Mordaunt 1749-1795 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 03 Dec 1749 Charles Henry Sloane 2nd Earl Cadogan 1749-1832 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 30 Jan 1752 Harriat Mordaunt 1752-1753 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 11 Jun 1753 Harriat Mordaunt 1753- was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 12 May 1761 Edward Lascelles 1st Earl Harewood 1740-1820 (20) and Anne Chaloner Baroness Harewood 1742-1805 (18) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 10 Oct 1765 Samuel Bulkeley and Frances Mordaunt 1736-1798 (29) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 19 May 1768 Noel Hill 1st Baron Berwick 1745-1789 (23) and Anna Vernon were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 01 Apr 1771 George Greville 2nd Earl Warwick, 2nd Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1746-1816 (24) and Georgiana Peachey Baroness Brooke -1772 were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 22 Jun 1772 Henry George Herbert 2nd Earl Carnarvon 1772-1833 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

In 1774 Reginald Courtenay Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Exeter 1741-1803 (32) was appointed Rector at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 19 Jul 1788 William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley 4th Earl Mornington 1788-1857 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 15 Jan 1789 Robert Henry Herbert 1789-1854 was born to Edward Clive 1st Earl Powis 1754-1839 (34) and Henrietta Antonia Herbert 3rd Countess Powis 1758-1830 (30) at the parish of St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 10 Mar 1792 John Perceval 4th Earl Egmont 1767-1835 (24) and Bridget Wynn Countess Egmont -1826 were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 05 Dec 1793 Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex 1773-1843 (20) and Augusta Murray Duchess Sussex 1768-1830 (25) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 08 Mar 1794 Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan 1769-1837 (24) and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan 1770-1826 (24) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 29 Nov 1794 Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842 (34) and Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley 1766-1816 (28) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley 1766-1816 (28) by marriage Countess Mornington (1C 1760).

On 26 Apr 1796 Henry George Herbert 2nd Earl Carnarvon 1772-1833 (23) and Elizabeth Kitty Acland Countess Carnarvon 1772-1813 (23) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 30 Sep 1800 William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 5th Duke Portland 1800-1879 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

In 1804 Charles William Vane 3rd Marquess Londonderry 1778-1854 (26) and Catherine Bligh 1775-1812 (29) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 16 Feb 1805 Edward Adolphus Seymour 12th Duke Somerset 1804-1885 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 15 Aug 1808 John Gore 1772-1836 (36) and Georgiana Montagu were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 22 May 1810 John Loftus 2nd Marquess Ely 1770-1845 (40) and Anna Maria Dashwood Marchioness Ely were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 11 May 1814 George Pitt-Rivers 6th Baron Rivers 1814-1880 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 31 Oct 1814 Sarah Fairbrother 1814-1890 was born at James Street, Covent Garden. She was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 18 Jun 1822 Francis Egerton 1st Earl Ellesmere 1800-1857 (22) and Harriet Greville Countess Ellesmere 1803-1870 (19) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 17 Jul 1828 John Cust 1st Earl Brownlow 1779-1853 (48) and Emma Sophie Edgecumbe Countess Brownlow 1791-1872 (36) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. Emma Sophie Edgecumbe Countess Brownlow 1791-1872 (36) by marriage Countess Brownlow.

On 13 Aug 1829 Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott 5th Duke Buccleuch, 7th Duke Queensberry -1884 and Charlotte Anne Thynne Duchess Buccleuch, Duchess Queensbury 1811-1895 (18) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. Charlotte Anne Thynne Duchess Buccleuch, Duchess Queensbury 1811-1895 (18) by marriage Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensberry.

On 03 May 1836 William Archer Amherst 3rd Earl Amherst 1836-1910 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 11 Oct 1836 Richard White 2nd Earl Bantry 1800-1868 (35) and Mary Obrien Countess Bantry were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 26 Sep 1839 Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck 1817-1865 (21) and Sinetta Lambourne 1820-1850 (19) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

In 1841 Francis Baring 1st Baron Northbrook 1796-1866 (44) and Arabella Georgina Howard Baroness Northbrook 1809-1884 (31) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 25 Aug 1842 Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland 1792-1865 (49) and Eleanor Grosvenor Duchess Northumberland 1820-1911 (21) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 28 Jul 1845 Horatio Nelson 3rd Earl Nelson 1823-1913 (21) and Mary Jane Agar Countess Nelson 1822-1904 (23) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 23 May 1854 George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham 1828-1879 (25) and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham 1835-1871 (19) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 18 Jan 1864 Henry Vane 2nd Duke Cleveland 1788-1864 (76) died at St George's Church, Hanover Square. His brother William Vane 3rd Duke Cleveland 1792-1864 (71) succeeded 3rd Duke Cleveland (2C 1833), 4th Earl Darlington, 4th Viscount Barnard, 7th Baron Barnard. Grace Caroline Lowther Duchess of Cleveland -1883 by marriage Duchess Cleveland (2C 1833).

Times Newspaper Marriages. 25 Jan 1865. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. The marriage of the Earl of Coventry (26) and Lady Blanche Craven (22), third daughter of Earl Craven (55), was solemnized yesterday morning at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The bridegroom and the frieNds of both families assembled at the church at 11 o'clock, and shortly afterwards were joined by the bride (22), accompanied by her mother, the Countess Craven (48). The bride (22) was received by her father (26) at the church door, and, attended by eight bridesmaids, proceeded at once to the communion table, in front ot which a numerous company had assembled, including the Earl (65) and Countess of Clarendon (54) and Lady Emily Villiers (22), the Countess of Verulam (40) and Lady Harriet Grimston (20), Viscount and Viscountees Folkestone (43) and Hon. Miss Bouverie, the Countess of Sefton (27) and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, Viscount Chelsea (24), and Lady Caroline Townley (27) and Miss Townley, Viscount Uffington (23), Sir Henry and Latly Sophia Des Voeux, Hon. Mr. and Mrs Coventry, Hon. Gerald and Ladv Maria Ponsonby, Mr. Oswald andl Miss Oswald, Dr. Quin, Mr. Cecil Boothby, Mr. James Oswald, Miss Talbot, Viscount (32) and Viscountess Grey de Wilton (28), Lady Evelyn Bruce, Hon. Mrs. Grimston and Miss Griniston, &c.
The Hon. and Rev. Edward Grimston (52), uncle of the bride, performed the religious rite. After the registration of the marriage the wedding party left the church, and procceded to the Earl (55) and Countess Craven's (48) mansion in Charles-street, Mayfair. At 2 o'clock the newly-wedded couple took their departure for Croome Court, tbe Earl of Coventry's (26) seat, near Upton, there to pass the honeymoon. At Croome Pirton and Severn Stoke, the marriage was celebrated yesterday by the tenantry and neighbours of the Earl of Coventry (26). The tenantry of the Croome Pirton and Severn Stoke estates, to ths number of about 100, dined together in two parties yesterday at Severn Stoke and High-green. At Pirton and Severn Stoke garlands of evergreens and flags were hung out over the roads, and at night a bonfire was lighted at High-green. The rejoicings have extended over all his Lordship's (26) large estates in the southern portion of Worcestershire. The inhabitants of Worcester celebrated the marriage by hoisting flags frem tile windows and streamers across the streets. The bells from the various churches rang merry peals all day.
George Coventry 9th Earl Coventry (26) and Blanche Craven Countess Coventry 1842-1930 (22) were married. Blanche Craven Countess Coventry 1842-1930 (22) by marriage Countess Coventry.

On 30 May 1865 Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Baron Rockley 1865-1941 was born to Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoyne-Cecil 1834-1921 (31) and Gertrude Louisa Scott at the parish of St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 30 Mar 1867 Henry Peter Pitt-Rivers 5th Baron Rivers 1849-1867 was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 08 Jan 1873 Harry Chichester 2nd Baron Templemore 1821-1906 (51) and Victoria Elizabeth Ashley-Cooper Baroness Templemore 1837-1927 (35) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. Victoria Elizabeth Ashley-Cooper Baroness Templemore 1837-1927 (35) by marriage Baroness Templemore of Templemore in Donegal.

On 31 Aug 1876 Charles Henry Wynn 1847-1911 (29) and Frances Georgiana Romer were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 17 Dec 1889 Henry Arthur Mornington Wellesley 3rd Earl Cowley 1866-1919 (23) and Violet Neville Countess Cowley 1866-1910 (23) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

Times Newspaper Marriages. 22 Jun 1910. LORD ACHESON (33) AND MISS CARTER (22).
The marriage of Viscount Acheson (33), elder son of the Earl (68) and Countess of Gosford (54), and Miss Mildred Carter (22), only daughter of Mr. J. Ridgely Carter (46), American Minister to Rumania, and Mrs. Ridgely Carter (45), took place yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square. The Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal (the Rev. Edgar Sheppard, D.D.) performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. David Anderson and other clergy, and Mr. Ridgely Carter (46) gave his daughter away. She wore a very simple wedding gown of soft white satin with a long train draped with old point de Venise, and a Venetian lace cap over a spray of myrtle and orange blossom, covered by a plain tulle veil. Master David Stanley, Master Julian Ward, and Miss Diana Roberts, dressed all in white, followed the bride, and there were seven bridesmaids, Lady Theo Acheson (28) (sister of the bridegroom), Lady Victoria Stanley, Mlle. Irene deo La Grange, Miss Canilla Morgan, the Hon. Rhoda Astley, Miss Elsie Nicholl, and Miss Marian Scranton, who wore white chiffon dresses with draped bodices and wreaths of myrtle beneath tulle veils. They also wore diamond neckislides and carried loose bunches of red roses. The Hon. Patrick Acheson (26) was best man to his brother.
Mrs. Ridgely Carter (45) afterwards held a large reception at Dorchester House (lent by the American Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid), and among the many who came on from the church were the French, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian Ambassadors, the Danish Minister, tho Rumanian Minister, the Swedish Minister and Countess Wrangel, Mme. Dominguez, the Servian Charge d'Affaires and Mme. Grouitel, the Chilian Minister and Mme. Gana, the Belgian Minister and Countess de Lalaing, the Duke (63) and Duchess of Somerset (57), Katharine Duchess of Westminster (53) and Lady Helen Grosvenor (22), Prince and Princess Alexis Dolgorouki, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton, the Marchioness of Tweeddale, the Marquis (48) and Marchioness of Salisbury (42), the Marchioness of Anglesey (26), the Countess of Powis (45), the Earl (56) and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Kintore and Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer, the Earl (68) and Countess of Gosford (54), Prince and Princess Frederick Liechtenstein, the Countess of Kimberley, Countess Grey, the Marquis d'Hautpoul, the Countess of Leicester (54) and Lady Bridget Coke (19), the Earl (41) and Countess of Craven (38), the Earl of Desart, Countess Fritz Hochberg, the Earl and Countess of Meath, the Countess of Bilmorey, the Countess of Londesborough (49) and Lady Irene Denison (19), the Earl and Countess of Derby (70), the Earl (51) and Countess of Yarborough (51), Ellen Lady Inchiquin and the Hon Lilah O'Brien, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford, Lord and Lady Leith of Fyvie, Lady Saltoun, Lady Nunburnholme (30), Lady Newborough, Sir John and Lady Lister-Raye, Lord and Lady Monson, Lord and Lady Savile, Lady Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess AIdleton, Lady Alexander Paget, Lady Harcourt, Lady Desborough, Lord Suffield, Sir Herbert and Lady Jekyll and Miss Jekyll, the Hon. Sir Francis and Lady Villiers and Miss Viliers, Lady Heien Vincent, Lord Knaresborough and the Hon. Helen Meysey-Thompson, Lady Pauncefote, Lord and Lady Weardale, Lady Grace Baring, Lord Strathcona, Lady Margaret Graham and Miss Graham, Sir Francis and Lady Channing, Mary Lady Gerard, Lady Manners and the Hon. Misses Manners, Lady Edward Cavendish, Mme. Langenbach, Lord Revelstoke, the Countess of Bessborough (84) and Ladv Gweneth Ponsonby (22), Lord Aberdare and the Hon. Eva Bruce, the Hon. Harry and Mrs. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. F. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur James, Mrs. Walter Burns, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Mrs. Lowther and Miss Lokther, Mine. Vagliano, Captain and Mrs. Clonman, Miss Ralli, Mr. William Giuett, Mrs: Hwfa Williams, the Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel, Mr. William Phillips, Mrs. Frank D'Arcy, the Hon. Lady Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, Sir Bartle Frere, Mme. de Bille, Mrs. Featherston- haugh, Mrs. Cotton Jodrell, Mrs. Frank Mackay, the Hon. Urs. Charles Lawrence, the Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire, Lady Barrymore, Mrs. Chauncey, and Mrs. Ronalds.
Lord (33) and Lady Acheson (22) left later in the afternoon for the Continent, the bride (22) travelling in a dress of grey chiffon and a large hat swathed in tulle to match the dress.
A list of the principal wedding presents was published in The Times yesterday.

In 1911 Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester 4th Baron Templemore 1880-1953 (30) and Clare Meriel Wingfield Baroness Templemore 1886-1969 (24) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. Clare Meriel Wingfield Baroness Templemore 1886-1969 (24) by marriage Baroness Templemore of Templemore in Donegal.

47 Hill Street

On 16 Nov 1896 Oswald Mosley 6th Baronet Ancoats 1896-1980 was born to Oswald Mosley 5th Baronet Ancoats 1873-1928 (22) at 47 Hill Street.

Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner

On 24 Feb 1790 Henry George Bathurst 4th Earl Bathurst Sussex 1790-1866 was born to Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst Sussex 1762-1834 (27) and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst Sussex 1765-1841 (24) at Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner.

On 24 Apr 1817 Felton Elwell Hervey-Bathurst 1st Baronet 1782-1819 (35) and Louisa Catharine Caton Duchess Leeds 1793–1874 (24) were married at Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, home of Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Wellington 1769-1852 (47)..

On 11 May 1821 Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy 1792-1821 (28) died at Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner.

On 05 Apr 1846 Henry Wellesley 3rd Duke Wellington 1846-1900 was born to Charles Wellesley 1808-1858 (38) and Augusta Sophia Anne Pierrepoint at Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner.

On 18 Aug 1850 Charles Arbuthnot 1767-1850 (83) died at Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner.

On 24 Jun 1927 Kathleen Emily Bulkeley-Williams Duchess Wellington 1848-1927 (78) died at Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner.

Dorchester House, Park Lane

Times Newspaper Marriages. 22 Jun 1910. LORD ACHESON (33) AND MISS CARTER (22).
The marriage of Viscount Acheson (33), elder son of the Earl (68) and Countess of Gosford (54), and Miss Mildred Carter (22), only daughter of Mr. J. Ridgely Carter (46), American Minister to Rumania, and Mrs. Ridgely Carter (45), took place yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square. The Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal (the Rev. Edgar Sheppard, D.D.) performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. David Anderson and other clergy, and Mr. Ridgely Carter (46) gave his daughter away. She wore a very simple wedding gown of soft white satin with a long train draped with old point de Venise, and a Venetian lace cap over a spray of myrtle and orange blossom, covered by a plain tulle veil. Master David Stanley, Master Julian Ward, and Miss Diana Roberts, dressed all in white, followed the bride, and there were seven bridesmaids, Lady Theo Acheson (28) (sister of the bridegroom), Lady Victoria Stanley, Mlle. Irene deo La Grange, Miss Canilla Morgan, the Hon. Rhoda Astley, Miss Elsie Nicholl, and Miss Marian Scranton, who wore white chiffon dresses with draped bodices and wreaths of myrtle beneath tulle veils. They also wore diamond neckislides and carried loose bunches of red roses. The Hon. Patrick Acheson (26) was best man to his brother.
Mrs. Ridgely Carter (45) afterwards held a large reception at Dorchester House (lent by the American Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid), and among the many who came on from the church were the French, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian Ambassadors, the Danish Minister, tho Rumanian Minister, the Swedish Minister and Countess Wrangel, Mme. Dominguez, the Servian Charge d'Affaires and Mme. Grouitel, the Chilian Minister and Mme. Gana, the Belgian Minister and Countess de Lalaing, the Duke (63) and Duchess of Somerset (57), Katharine Duchess of Westminster (53) and Lady Helen Grosvenor (22), Prince and Princess Alexis Dolgorouki, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton, the Marchioness of Tweeddale, the Marquis (48) and Marchioness of Salisbury (42), the Marchioness of Anglesey (26), the Countess of Powis (45), the Earl (56) and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Kintore and Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer, the Earl (68) and Countess of Gosford (54), Prince and Princess Frederick Liechtenstein, the Countess of Kimberley, Countess Grey, the Marquis d'Hautpoul, the Countess of Leicester (54) and Lady Bridget Coke (19), the Earl (41) and Countess of Craven (38), the Earl of Desart, Countess Fritz Hochberg, the Earl and Countess of Meath, the Countess of Bilmorey, the Countess of Londesborough (49) and Lady Irene Denison (19), the Earl and Countess of Derby (70), the Earl (51) and Countess of Yarborough (51), Ellen Lady Inchiquin and the Hon Lilah O'Brien, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford, Lord and Lady Leith of Fyvie, Lady Saltoun, Lady Nunburnholme (30), Lady Newborough, Sir John and Lady Lister-Raye, Lord and Lady Monson, Lord and Lady Savile, Lady Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess AIdleton, Lady Alexander Paget, Lady Harcourt, Lady Desborough, Lord Suffield, Sir Herbert and Lady Jekyll and Miss Jekyll, the Hon. Sir Francis and Lady Villiers and Miss Viliers, Lady Heien Vincent, Lord Knaresborough and the Hon. Helen Meysey-Thompson, Lady Pauncefote, Lord and Lady Weardale, Lady Grace Baring, Lord Strathcona, Lady Margaret Graham and Miss Graham, Sir Francis and Lady Channing, Mary Lady Gerard, Lady Manners and the Hon. Misses Manners, Lady Edward Cavendish, Mme. Langenbach, Lord Revelstoke, the Countess of Bessborough (84) and Ladv Gweneth Ponsonby (22), Lord Aberdare and the Hon. Eva Bruce, the Hon. Harry and Mrs. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. F. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur James, Mrs. Walter Burns, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Mrs. Lowther and Miss Lokther, Mine. Vagliano, Captain and Mrs. Clonman, Miss Ralli, Mr. William Giuett, Mrs: Hwfa Williams, the Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel, Mr. William Phillips, Mrs. Frank D'Arcy, the Hon. Lady Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, Sir Bartle Frere, Mme. de Bille, Mrs. Featherston- haugh, Mrs. Cotton Jodrell, Mrs. Frank Mackay, the Hon. Urs. Charles Lawrence, the Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire, Lady Barrymore, Mrs. Chauncey, and Mrs. Ronalds.
Lord (33) and Lady Acheson (22) left later in the afternoon for the Continent, the bride (22) travelling in a dress of grey chiffon and a large hat swathed in tulle to match the dress.
A list of the principal wedding presents was published in The Times yesterday.

Dudley House, Park Lane

On 07 May 1885 William Ward 1st Earl Dudley 1817-1885 (68) died at Dudley House, Park Lane.

Grosvenor House, Park Lane

On 11 Oct 1895 George Cambridge 2nd Marquess Cambridge 1895-1981 was born to Adolphus Cambridge Duke Teck 1868-1927 (27) and Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor Duchess Teck 1873-1929 (22) at Grosvenor House, Park Lane.

Holderness House, Park Lane

My Recollections by Adeline Horsey Countess Cardigan 1824-1915 Chapter IV: Presented at Court. The intimate history of Society is full of unsuspected tragedy, but when the veil is torn aside, the unhappiness of many a husband and wife becomes tragedy in real earnest, and the light-hearted butterflies who sip the sweets of the good things of this life are horrified at the idea of such things happening in their midst. The grim story I am about to relate concerned particular friends of mine, and it made a great impression upon me. Constance de Burgh (22) was one of my great friends, she was a very pretty, charming girl who married Lord Ward (34), who had always been considered a great parti by mothers with marriageable daughters.
Constance (22) was not in love with her husband (34) ; he had proposed and she was told she must accept him. A dutiful daughter of rather colourless character, Constance never dreamt of opposition, and so she became Lady Ward.
Marriage frequently means disillusion, and the Ward marriage was not a success.
William Ward (34) was a pleasant man, but he had extraordinary ideas of how to treat a wife, ideas which could only be tolerated by a tactful woman who could laugh at them, and forget all the unpleasantness they entailed. Poor Constance was not tactful, and not accommodating. Her husband worshipped the beautiful ; he had selected his wife partly on account of her beauty, and he treated her like some lovely slave he had bought. He had a strange, almost barbaric passion for precious stones, and he bought quantities of them and lavished them on his wife, who appeared at great entertainments literally ablaze with diamonds.
What pleased Lord Ward more than anything was to make Constance put on all her jewels for his special benefit when they were alone. He would admire her thus for hours, delighting in her lovely unclothed figure, and contrasting the sheen of her ropes of pearls with her delicate skin, as she sat on a black satin-covered couch.
These strange proceedings at first terrified and then disgusted Constance. She appealed to her father, but her parents decided that her husband's peculiarities came within the meaning of the marriage vows, and she was told she must submit to her husband's humours.
Fate then threw Constance (22) across Lord Dupplin's (24) path, with the result that the tragedy began.
I knew Blanche Dupplin (23) very well, and often when I was lunching with her she would tell me sorrowfully about her husband's (24) infatuation. "It is useless to expostulate," said Blanche; " Dupplin will not abandon the affair, and I don't know how it will end if William Ward (34) finds out his wife's (22) infidelity."
Matters came to a crisis at a fancy dress ball given by Lady Londonderry (22) at Holderness House, the chief feature being a quadrille danced by ladies representing famous European queens. I met the Wards there ; Constance looked delicate, and early in the evening she said she felt ill and must go home. She came over to where her husband and I were standing, and asked him whether he intended to accompany her.
" No, I shall stay," said Lord Ward (34), " I mean to have several dances with Miss de Horsey. Go home by all means if you are tired."
Constance was enceinte, so her absence excited no comment as she was far from strong. Her husband remained until nearly 3 a.m., when he departed for his house in Park Lane — it was daylight, and, as he approached the house, he suddenly noticed a man leaving it. Their eyes met ; it was Lord Dupplin (24), who turned and ran for his life down the street.
Lord Ward entered, and startled the sleepy footman by telling him to rouse the servants and bid them assemble in the hall. He then went upstairs to his wife's bedroom.
What passed between them was told by Constance to a friend ; her husband came to her bedside and accused her of committing adultery with Lord Dupplin (24). " Get up, madame," he continued, "my house is yours no longer; arrangements shall be made for your future, but henceforth you are no wife of mine."
Tears and entreaties were useless, and Constance was obliged to dress ; William Ward (34) then led her past the scandalised servants who were waiting downstairs, and — turned her out of doors.
The poor frightened girl managed to reach her parents' house in Grosvenor Crescent, and implored them to give her shelter, but they were as heartless as her husband, and told her they could not take her in. More dead than alive, she turned her steps to Conduit Street, where her singing-master lived, and this gentleman, full of compassion for his unfortunate pupil, allowed her to remain there until the next day, when she went to Ostend. From Ostend she went to Ems, where her child was prematurely born and the unhappy young mother died. Her husband brought her body to England, and once again Constance Ward (22) lay in her darkened bedroom.
On the evening of the day before her burial, Lord Colville came to see Lord Ward. They talked for some time and then the widower suddenly turned to his friend.
" Colville — you admired my wife ? " "Yes," replied Lord Colville, " I did." " Well, come and look your last on her," said Lord Ward, and lighting a candle he led the way upstairs.
The room was full of shadows, and the flickering light fell on the lovely face of the dead woman. Silently Lord Colville stood by her, and his heart ached when he thought of her fate. Ward was watching him attentively. "Still admiring my wife? Well, she was a pretty woman — but — you'd never credit she had such bad teeth." He put down the candle on a table as he spoke, and raised his wife's head from the pillow. With cold deliberation he wrenched the jaws apart. " I always told you she had bad teeth," he repeated, "look here, man." But Lord Colville had hurriedly left the room. He told me afterwards it was the most ghastly sight he had ever seen.

Londonderry House, Park Lane

On 06 Mar 1854 Charles William Vane 3rd Marquess Londonderry 1778-1854 (76) died at Londonderry House, Park Lane. His son Frederick William Robert Stewart 4th Marquess Londonderry 1805-1872 (48) succeeded 4th Marquess Londonderry.

Norfolk Street, Park Lane

My Recollections by Adeline Horsey Countess Cardigan 1824-1915 Chapter VII: My Marriage. If Lord Cardigan (60) and I had met in 1909 instead of in 1857 no particular comment would have been made on our friendship, but in 1857 Society was scandalised because I had the courage to ride and drive with a married man who had an unfaithful wife.
There was another and a stronger reason for the wagging tongues of slander, for they were prompted by jealousy. Lady Cardigan (60) was then very ill, and every one knew that her death was only a question of a year or two. Once free, Lord Cardigan (60) would be a prize well worth winning by match-making matrons with marriageable daughters, and his openly avowed affection for me had put an end to these hopes, I was not in the least disturbed by the incessant gossip, but my father (68) and my brothers were much worried and annoyed at the reports which were circulated, and although Lady Georgina Codrington (41) wrote to my father and begged him not to make a fuss about things, he suddenly became very angry and declared he would leave London for good and take me with him.
A most distressing scene followed. I said that, as there was no evil in my friendship with Lord Cardigan (60), I refused to give up his acquaintance, or to be taken into the country against my will, and I steadily defied my father and brothers to make me alter my decision. Family quarrels are, perhaps, the most rankling of any, for they are generally retaliative, and much is said that is never forgotten or quite forgiven ; ours was no exception, and the result of it was that I decided to leave home. With me, to think has always been to act, so I ordered my horse " Don Juan " to be brought round, and I rode away to liberty. My own income rendered me perfectly independent ; I put up at a quiet hotel in Hyde Park Square, and looked about for a furnished house. I did not go into exile alone, for my father's valet, Mathews, came with me, and his fidelity was well rewarded when he entered Lord Cardigan's service after our marriage.
I was lucky enough to find a charming little furnished house in Norfolk Street, Park Lane, and I installed myself there with Mathews and three other servants. It was a quiet household, and although at first things seemed strange to me, I was very happy. I rode with Cardigan (60) every day in the Park, regardless of the averted glances of those who had once called themselves my friends. I often wonder why friendship is so apostrophised, for real friends in trouble are practically non-existent, especially at the moment they are most needed. The ideal friend, whose aim in life should be to forget "base self," as the poets say, is as extinct as the Dodo, and those who talk most about friendship are usually the first to forget what is the true meaning of the word.
On the morning of July 12, 1858, I was awakened by a loud knocking at the front door. I looked at my watch, and saw that it was not seven o'clock ; I was, needless to say, very alarmed, as I wondered whether anything had happened to my father or my brothers. The knocking continued — I heard the bolts drawn, the door opened, and a voice I knew well called impatiently for me. It was Lord Cardigan (60) ! I had just time to slip on a dressing-gown before he came into my room, sans ceremonie, and taking me in his arms he said, "' My dearest, she's (60) dead . . . let's get married at once." Then I knew that the trying period of our probation was over, and that we were free to be happy together at last.
When Cardigan (60) grew calmer he told me he had just come from his wife's (60) death-bed. The poor lady (60) had urged him to marry me, saying she knew that I should make him happy. She had also warned him against Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury (45), the extent of whose love affairs, it appears, was only known to Lady Cardigan (60), who told his Lordship (60) the unvarnished truth about them.
As I did not wish to insult the memory of the dead woman (60), who had shown me so many kindnesses, I refused to marry Cardigan (60) until some time had elapsed. He went to Ireland in his official capacity of Inspector of Cavalry, and I lived on quietly at Norfolk Street till September, when I left London for Cowes. I then went on board Lord Cardigan's yacht the Airedale, where he and a party of friends were awaiting me, and we sailed for Gibraltar.
Nothing particular occurred en route; we were all in the best of spirits, and I felt as though I were the Princess in some delightful fairy-tale. The day after we arrived at Gibraltar there was a terrible storm, almost tropical in its violence. Roofs were torn off houses and whirled, light as dead leaves, through the air, great trees were uprooted, heavy masonry fell everywhere, and the ships tossed about like cockle-shells in the harbour. It was almost a scene from the Inferno, and our horror was intensified when we saw the signals from a French vessel in distress. Nobody seemed inclined to put out, so I begged Lord Cardigan (60) to send the Airedale to try and save the crew. He assented, and through this timely aid from our yacht fourteen men were rescued, and we also took a French poodle off a raft to which he was clinging, his owner doubtless having been drowned.

Somerset House (40), Park Lane

On 15 Aug 1855 Edward Seymour 11th Duke Somerset 1775-1855 (80) died at Somerset House (40), Park Lane. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green. His son Edward Adolphus Seymour 12th Duke Somerset 1804-1885 (50) succeeded 12th Duke Somerset (4C 1547). Jane Georgiana Sheridan Duchess Somerset 1809-1884 (45) by marriage Duchess Somerset (4C 1547).

South Street, Park Lane

The Dorchester, Park Lane

On 12 Jun 1946 Rose Marie Kennedy 1918-2005 (27) attended at The Dorchester, Park Lane.

16 Savile Row

Around 1795 Anthony Hamilton Archdeacon 1739-1812 (56) lived at 16 Savile Row.

Savile Street, Savile Row

Grosvenor Chapel

On 18 Oct 1693 George Gilbert Archbishop of York 1693-1761 was buried in Grosvenor Chapel.

On 22 May 1781 Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington 1735-1781 (45) died at Kensington. He was buried at Grosvenor Chapel. On 22 May 1781 His son Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842 (20) succeeded 2nd Earl Mornington (1C 1760), 2nd Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle.

In 1803 Reginald Courtenay Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Exeter 1741-1803 (61) died. He was buried at Grosvenor Chapel.

On 10 Sep 1831 Anne Hill Countess Mornington 1742-1831 (89) died at Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. She was buried at Grosvenor Chapel.

On 02 Apr 1895 Clarissa Hall 1825–1895 (70) died. Her funeral was held at the Grosvenor Chapel on 05 Apr 1895 attended by her daughters Clarita "Clara" Jerome 1851–1935 (44), Jenny Jerome 1854-1921 (41) and Leonie Blanche Jerome 1859–1943 (36), her grandsons Winston Churchill Prime Minister 1874-1965 (20) and John Strange "Jack" Spencer-Churchill 1880-1947 (15) and the Dowager Frances Anne Emily Vane Duchess Marlborough 1822-1899 (72).

4 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair

On 07 Sep 1841 Robert George Cecil Fane 1796-1864 (45) and Harriet Anne Blackwood -1869 were married. They lived at 4 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair.

16 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair

On 12 Jan 1858 Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes 1st Marquess Crewe 1858-1945 was born at 16 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair.

27 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair

On 28 May 1828 Anne Seymour-Conway 1748-1828 (79) died in 27 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair.

31 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair

On 07 Jun 1877 George Herbert Hyde Villiers 6th Earl Clarendon 1877-1955 was born to Edward Villiers 5th Earl Clarendon 1846-1914 (31) and Caroline Elizabeth Agar Countess Clarendon 1857-1894 (20) at 31 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair.