Blanche Maynard 1864-1945

On 13th October 1860 [her father] Charles Henry Maynard [aged 46] and [her step-mother] Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy [aged 21] were married. The difference in their ages was 25 years.

On 14th February 1864 Blanche Maynard was born to Charles Henry Maynard [aged 50].

On 2nd January 1865 [her father] Charles Henry Maynard [aged 51] died.

The Chelmsford Chronicle (Chelmsford, Essex), January 6, 1865, p. 8, col. 2

Death of Colonel Maynard – Colonel the Hon. Chas. Henry Maynard, only son of Viscount Maynard, died on Monday, at his residence in Hill street, Berkeley-square. The lamented gentleman was born in 1814, and married 16th January, 1840, Lady Francis Julia Murray, second daughter of the James first Lord Glenlyon, and sister to the late Duke of Athole, who died in 1858. He married, second, in 1860, Miss Fitzroy, second daughter of Mr. Henry Fitzroy, of Salcey Lawn, Northamptonshire, by whom he leaves issue two infant daughters. The deceased was formerly in the Royal Horse Guards, and held the post of colonel in the Essex Militia, and was also a deputy-lieutenant of the county.

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [30th April 1881]. And so the tale unfolds. Our [[her brother-in-law] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 28] and [her half-sister] Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 19]] marriage took place in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and the newspapers of the day made much of the "most brilliant wedding of a dozen seasons." I remember my surprise as I drove from our house in Carlton Gardens to the Abbey to find the way lined with interested crowds.

Among the guests were the Prince [aged 39] and Princess of Wales [aged 36], Prince and Princess Christian, the Duke [aged 30] and Duchess of Connaught [aged 20], Princess Louise [aged 33] (Marchioness of Lorne), Princess Mary Adelaide [aged 47] (Duchess of Teck) and the Duke of Teck (parents of Queen Mary), with Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany [aged 28], as my husband's best man. The crush filled the Abbey from the choir to the door.

My twelve bridesmaids were all girl friends and relatives. They were: Blanche Maynard [aged 17], my sister (now Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox [aged 33]), Lady Eva Greville [aged 21], my husband's only sister, my stepsisters, Millicent [aged 13], Sybil [aged 9], and Angela St. Clair Erskine [aged 4] (later Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Westmorland, and Lady A. Forbes), Countess Feodore Gleichen [aged 19] (later a renowned sculptor), Lady Florence Bridgman [aged 22] (the present Countess of Harewood and mother of Viscount Lascelles [aged 34]), Miss Wombwell [aged 19] (Countess of Dartrey), Miss Mills, the first Lord Hillingdon's daughter, Miss Violet Lindsay [aged 25] (now Violet, Duchess of Rutland), and Miss Ethel Milner [aged 30] (later Countess of Durham).

On 30th April 1881 [her brother-in-law] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 28] and [her half-sister] Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 19] were married at the King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [Map]. See her autobiography Life's Ebb and Flow Page 38. He the son of George Greville 4th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Brooke [aged 63] and Anne Charteris Countess Warwick [aged 52]. They were fourth cousin once removed.

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. In August 1886, my [[her half-sister] Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 24]] sister Blanche [aged 22] married the [her father-in-law] Duke of Richmond's [aged 68] son, [her husband] Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox [aged 38], in Little Easton church [Map], the Bishop of St. Albans [Map] performing the service, and a family party assembling. The only child of this marriage is my niece, [her daughter] Ivy, Marchioness of Titchfield, who married the eldest son [[her future son-in-law] William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 7th Duke Portland] of the present Duke [aged 28] and Duchess [aged 22] of Portland.

On 31st August 1886 Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox [aged 38] and Blanche Maynard [aged 22] were married. He the son of Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 68] and Frances Harriett Greville Duchess Richmond [aged 62].

On 16th June 1887 [her daughter] Ivy Gordon-Lennox Duchess Portland was born to [her husband] Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox [aged 39] and Blanche Maynard [aged 23]. She married 12th August 1915 her third cousin once removed William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 7th Duke Portland, son of William Cavendish-Bentinck 6th Duke Portland and Winifred Anna Dallas-Yorke Duchess Portland, and had issue.

On 2nd December 1893 George Greville 4th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Brooke [aged 75] died at Warwick Castle [Map]. His son [her brother-in-law] Francis [aged 40] succeeded 5th Earl Warwick, 5th Earl Brooke Warwick Castle, 12th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire. [her half-sister] Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 31] by marriage Countess Warwick.

1895. Alice Hughes [aged 38]. Photograph of Blanche Maynard [aged 30].

Before 19th November 1902 Arthur Hill 6th Marquess of Downshire [aged 31] and Katherine Mary "Kitty" Hare Marchioness Downshire [aged 30] were divorced as a consequence of her affair with Joseph Frederick Laycock [aged 35]. Laycock was also having an affair with [her half-sister] Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 40] with whom he possibly fathered two children: [her nephew] Maynard Greville [aged 4] and [her niece] Mercy Greville.

On 27th September 1903 [her father-in-law] Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 85] died. His son [her brother-in-law] Charles [aged 57] succeeded 7th Duke Richmond, 2nd Duke Gordon, 7th Earl March, 7th Baron Settrington.

On 12th August 1915 [her son-in-law] William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 7th Duke Portland [aged 22] and [her daughter] Ivy Gordon-Lennox Duchess Portland [aged 28] were married. He the son of William Cavendish-Bentinck 6th Duke Portland [aged 57] and Winifred Anna Dallas-Yorke Duchess Portland [aged 51]. They were third cousin once removed.

On 3rd September 1921 [her husband] Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox [aged 73] died.

On 26th July 1938 [her half-sister] Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 76] died.

On 17th August 1945 Blanche Maynard [aged 81] died.