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15
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
26
July
1911
(
Letters
, p.
267
).

16
. George Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
6
October
1910
, in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
669
.

17
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
208
.

18
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
172
.

19
. Quoted in ibid., p.
175
.

20
. Jenkins,
Mr. Balfour’s Poodle
, p.
178
.

21
. Ibid., pp.
187
,
190
.

22
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
8
December
1910
, Stanway Papers.

Chapter
27
: Revolution?

1
. George Wyndham to Philip Hanson,
5
April
1911
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
687
; Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
209
.

2
. George Wyndham to Philip Hanson,
5
April
1911
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
687
.

3
. Madeline Wyndham to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
6
December
1918
, Blunt Papers, FM
894
-
1975
.

4
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
176
.

5
.
The Times
,
20
March
1911
.

6
. George Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
11
December
1911
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
710
.

7
.
The Times
,
14
March
1911
.

8
. Dated July
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
21
. In today’s money the real price is £
2
,
242
; labour value £
9
,
144
; and income value £
13
,
020
.

9
. The equivalent in RPI is £
20
,
150
,
000
; in ESV £
117
,
000
,
000
; and in EPV £
163,300,000
.

10
.
The Times
,
11
April
1911
.

11
. George Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
1
October
1911
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
707
; and
21
December
1911
, ibid.,
2
.
712
.

12
. George Wyndham to Charles Gatty,
16
March
1911
, ibid.,
2
.
686
.

13
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
19
July
1900
(
Letters
, pp.
168

9
).

14
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
12
January
1911
(
Letters
, pp.
263

4
).

15
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
30
July
1911
(
Letters
, p.
269
).

16
. Viscount Grey of Fallodon,
Twenty-Five Years
1892

1916
,
2
vols (Hodder & Stoughton,
1926
),
1
.
238
.

17
. Jenkins,
Mr. Balfour’s Poodle
, p.
208
.

18
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
16
July
1911
(
Letters
, p.
266
).

19
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
23
July
1911
(
Letters
, pp.
266

7
).

20
. Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
252
. The phrase has also been attributed to George Curzon: see David Gilmour, ‘
Curzon, George Nathaniel
, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (
1859

1925
)
’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, online edn, January
2011
[
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/
32680
, accessed
23
October
2013
].

21
. Jenkins,
Mr. Balfour’s Poodle
, p.
226
.

22
. Ibid., p.
227
.

23
. Ibid., p.
223
.

24
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
30
July
1911
(
Letters
, p.
268
).

25
. Jenkins,
Mr. Balfour’s Poodle
, p.
233
.

26
. Ibid., p.
236
.

27
. Ibid., p.
238
.

28
. Ibid., p.
234
.

29
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
10
October
1919
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
3
r.

30
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, n.d. [
11
August
1911
] (
Letters
, pp.
269

70
); Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
14
August
1911
(
Letters
, pp.
270

1
).

31
. Jenkins,
Mr. Balfour’s Poodle
, pp.
252

3
.

32
.
The Times
,
11
August
1911
; HL Deb.
10
August
1911
, vol.
9
, col.
1000
.

33
. HL Deb.
10
August
1911
, vol.
9
, cols
1003
,
1014
.

34
. Quoted in Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
254
.

35
. Marr,
The Making of Modern Britain
, p.
113
.

36
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, n.d. [
11
August
1911
] (
Letters
, pp.
269

70
); Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
14
August
1911
(
Letters
, pp.
270

1
).

37
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
8
October
1911
(
Letters
, p.
278
).

38
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
7
November
1911
(
Letters
, p.
282
).

39
. George Wyndham to Sibell Grosvenor,
10
August
1911
, quoted in Egremont,
The Cousins
, p.
278
.

Chapter
28
:
1911

1914

1
. F. W. Bain to Pamela Tennant,
6
September
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
37
.

2
. Pamela Tennant to unknown correspondent (as before),
3
August
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
35
f.
22
.
3
r.

3
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
3
August
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
14
r.

4
. Pamela Tennant to unknown (as before),
3
August
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
35
f.
22
.
3
r.

5
. F. W. Bain to Pamela Tennant,
1
May
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD/
510
/
1
/
37
.

6
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
3
August
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
14
r; Pamela Tennant to unknown (as before),
3
August
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
35
f.
22
.
3
r.

7
. Elizabeth Asquith to Mary Charteris,
27
December
1914
, quoted in Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
143
.

8
.
The Times
,
4
March
1911
.

9
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
101
.

10
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
7
October
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
5
r.

11
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
22
March
1911
, Stanway Papers.

12
. Edward Tennant to Margot Asquith,
8
April
1910
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
160
.

13
. Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng.
6676
f.
163
(n.d.).

14
. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant,
5
November
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
42
f.
12
r.

15
. Edward Tennant to Margot Asquith,
15
January
1917
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6697
ff.
164

5
.

16
. Pamela Tennant to Sidney Cockerell,
26
February
1911
, BL Cockerell Papers, vol. CXLVII, Add. MSS.
52769
f.
174
.

17
. ‘Fantasia – of a London House Closed’, in Glenconner,
The White Wallet
, pp.
211

12
.

18
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, p.
192
.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
2
June
1923
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
3
f.
4
r.

21
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
125
; and see
The Times
13
June
1913
, reporting on Bosie’s bankruptcy that year, in which it is explained that, in
1907
, Eddy had created a company, Wilsford Press Ltd, and had immediately then assigned all its shares to Bosie for a nominal sum.

22
. Belloc Lowndes,
A Passing World
, p.
178
; Philip Hoare,
Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand
(New York, Arcade Publishing,
1998
), pp.
20

1
.

23
. Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir,
The Edwardian Lady
(Duckworth,
1966
), pp.
87

8
.

24
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
172
.

25
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
234
.

26
. Ibid., p.
235
.

27
. Edward Grey to Pamela Tennant,
18
December
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
35
f.
12
r.

28
. Pamela Tennant to Sibell, Countess Grosvenor,
25
January
1912
, George Wyndham Papers.

29
. F. W. Bain to Pamela Tennant,
1
April and
18
August
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
37
.

30
. Edward Grey to Pamela Tennant,
23
March
1913
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
60
/
3
f.
10
r.

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