Those Wild Wyndhams (71 page)

31
. Edward Grey to Pamela Tennant,
8
December
1911
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
35
f.
12
r.

32
. Ibid., and
5
March
1913
, ibid., f.
22
.
7
r.

33
. Edward Grey to Edward Tennant,
25
February
1912
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
60
/
2
f.
8
r.

34
. Tennant,
Waiting for Princess Margaret
, p.
72
.

35
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
17
.

36
. Clare Tennant to Edward Tennant,
25
February
1912
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
42
f.
18
r.

37
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
8
May
1915
, p.
17
.

38
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
31
October
1912
(
Letters
, pp.
291
–
2
).

39
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
30
October
1912
(
Letters
, pp.
290
–
1
).

40
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
24
February
1913
(
Letters
, p.
294
).

41
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
16
September
1912
(
Letters
, p.
288
).

42
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
12
September
1912
(
Letters
, p.
287
).

43
. Ibid.

44
. Philip Ziegler,
Diana Cooper
(Harmondsworth, Penguin Books,
1981
), p.
41
. Diana was the child of her mother’s affair with Harry Cust, and was the infant born at the time that Harry first started courting Pamela in
1892
.

45
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
15
October
1907
(
Letters
, p.
242
).

46
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
29
March
1922
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
2
f.
5
r.

47
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
19
March
1913
(
Letters
, pp.
297
–
8
).

48
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
12
September
1912
(
Letters
, pp.
286
–
7
).

49
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
24
February
1913
(
Letters
, p.
294
).

50
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
24
January
1913
, Stanway Papers.

51
. Ibid.

52
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
24
February
1913
(
Letters
, p.
295
).

53
. Kathleen Tynan Hinkson,
The Middle Years
(Constable,
1916
), p.
233
.

54
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
24
February
1913
(
Letters
, p.
294
).

55
. Ibid.

56
. George Wyndham to Hilaire Belloc,
4
June
1913
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
749
.

57
. Ellenberger, ‘Constructing George Wyndham’, p.
501
. For a more colourful account see Joan Wyndham,
Dawn Chorus
(Virago,
2004
), pp.
12
–
13
.

58
. Perf Wyndham to Sibell, Countess Grosvenor,
10
June
1913
, Stanway Papers.

59
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, n.d. [
1913
], Blunt Papers, FM
673
-
1975
.

60
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
390
.

61
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
126
.

62
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
390
.

63
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
2
August
1914
, Stanway Papers.

64
.
The Times
,
29
July
1914
.

65
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
23
August
1915
, p.
71
.

66
. Ibid.

67
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
28
September
1914
, Blunt Papers, FM
719
-
1975
.

68
.
The Times
,
4
August
1914
.

69
.
Simon Blow says that this was Eddy Tennant (see
Broken Blood
, p.
134
). It seems more likely that it was, as claimed by himself, John Spender, Editor of the
Westminster Gazette
(see
J. A. Spender,
Life, Journalism and Politics
,
2
vols (New York, Frederick A. Stokes,
1927
),
2
.
14
–
15
.

1
.
The Times
,
5
August
1914
.

2
. Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, p.
180
; Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
240
.

3
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
241
.

4
. The terminology was alien to people at the time. In
1918
, Pamela reminded Margot of ‘your [Margot] exclaiming one early day in the War “‘B.E.F.?’ What does ‘B.E.F.’ mean?”’ (Pamela Glenconner to Margot Asquith, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6676
ff.
144
–
8
).

5
. Niall Ferguson,
The Pity of War
(Penguin Books,
1999
), p.
198
.

6
. Newspaper cutting dated
1
December
1913
, reporting Eddy’s address to the Liverpool Liberal Federal Council on Home Defence, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
51
f.
1
r.

7
. Asquith,
Diaries
, p. xvi.

8
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, August
1914
(
Letters
, p.
311
).

9
. Ibid.

10
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
28
September
1914
, Blunt Papers, FM
719
-
1975
.

11
. Conversation with Mrs James Adeane, November
2013
.

12
. Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
72
.

13
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p. vi.

14
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, pp.
240
,
242
.

15
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
16
October
1915
, p.
88
.

16
. Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, pp.
73
–
4
.

17
. Julian Grenfell to Ettie Desborough,
24
October
1914
, quoted in Nicholas Mosley,
Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of his Death
1888
–
1915
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1976
), p.
239
.

18
. Lady Angela Forbes,
Memories and Base Details
(
2
nd edn, Hutchinson,
1922
), p.
153
.

19
. Ibid., p.
171
.

20
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
1
January
1915
(
Letters
, pp.
315
–
16
).

21
. Ibid.

22
. Forbes,
Memories and Base Details
,
p.
171
.

23
. Ibid., p.
76
.

24
. Ibid., pp.
174
–
5
.

25
. Ibid., p.
171
.

26
. Ibid., p.
161
.

27
. Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
73
.

28
. Forbes,
Memories and Base Details
, p.
161
.

29
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, August
1914
(
Letters
, p.
311
).

30
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
285
; Pamela Adeane to Mary Elcho,
1
October
1917
, Stanway Papers.

31
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
286
.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
13
April
1915
(
Letters
, p.
323
).

34
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
7
October
1915
, Stanway Papers.

35
. Ibid.

36
. Ibid.

37
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, pp.
119
–
20
.

38
. Ibid., p.
118
.

39
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
9
October
1914
, Stanway Papers.

40
. Tennant,
Waiting for Princess Margaret
, p.
125
.

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

42
. Pamela Tennant to Edward Tennant, n.d. [post-war], Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
51
f.
16
r. The child was an artistic prodigy – Pamela had hung some of her paintings in Queen Anne’s Gate. Pamela took her down to Wilsford: ‘my idea is to put the child at the Bishops school in Salisbury for the winter as her surroundings in London are very objectionable. She is a nice mannered quiet little child. She draws all day long,’ she told Eddy.

43
. Tennant,
Waiting for Princess Margaret
, pp.
115
,
128
.

44
. Ibid., p.
120
.

45
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
13
.

46
. Ibid.; Blow, in
Broken Blood
, notes that his grandmother had adopted a child who ‘had run away to sea in his early teens’, but gives his date of adoption as nearer that of Stephen’s birth, and his name as Barnaby (p.
173
).

47
. See Tennant,
Waiting for Princess Margaret
, and Blow’s version in
Broken Blood
.

48
. Tennant,
Waiting for Princess Margaret
, p.
128
.

49
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
85
.

50
. For an account of this episode see Hermione Baddeley,
The Unsinkable Hermione Baddeley
(Collins,
1984
), pp.
54
–
8
.

51
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
18
September
1914
, Stanway Papers.

52
. Ibid.

53
. Edward Wyndham Tennant, ‘Percy Wyndham’, Stanway Papers.

54
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
17
September
1914
(
Letters
, p.
312
).

55
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
20
October
1915
, p.
91
.

56
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, September
1914
(
Letters
, p.
313
).

57
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
29
September
1914
, Stanway Papers.

58
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, n.d., Blunt Papers, FM
724
-
1975
.