Today's "Tale from Watnall Hall" looks at the evidence that suggests Lady Maud Rolleston (of Watnall Hall) was the first person to ever use the famous subterranean ballroom at Welbeck Abbey when she organised the Rufford Hunt Ball of 1891...
The Hampshire Advertiser of November 28th 1891 has an intriguing article (below) about Colonel Rolleston of Watnall Hall and his time as Master of the prestigious Rufford Hunt based at Welbeck Abbey. He had taken up the position two years earlier, moving from Watnall Hall to live at Edwinstowe in the heart of the Rufford Hunt's country in north Nottinghamshire.
His life with the Rufford would reacquaint Rolleston with an old love rival, William Cavendish-Bentinck, the 6th Duke of Portland, owner of Welbeck Abbey and position him higher up the local social pecking order. Royal visitors to Nottinghamshire often stayed with the Duke at Welbeck⁵ and anyone familiar with ITV's Downton Abbey will appreciate this social hierarchy and the importance that fox hunting and horse riding had within it.
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The 1891 Rufford Hunt Ball at Welbeck Abbey's underground ballroom.
Looks a bit like Rolleston 3rd man from left... |
In 1891, Rolleston's wife Lady Maud instigated the very first Rufford Hunt ball to be held in the huge and impossibly grand underground ballroom of Welbeck Abbey. She enjoyed organising society soirees and balls as it was a throwback to her younger days growing up in Europe. It was perhaps also the very first ball of any kind held there as the ballroom's builder, the eccentric 5th Duke of Portland⁴ never actually used it as such. When the 6th Duke inherited the title and took over Welbeck in 1879 it was used as an enormous picture gallery. It wasn't even called the ballroom back then, it was called the Picture Gallery and it had originally been dug with the intention to use it as an underground chapel. The 6th Duke married in 1889 and there is no record of a ball before, his main interest as a bachelor being in horse racing⁶.
Young Love Rivals - The 6th Duke's memoirs relate an entertaining story⁶ from their bachelor days about him and Rolleston vying for the attention of an attractive young lady... "At a ball given at Bestwood on this occasion, I remember that, during the cotillon, Lancelot Rolleston and I raced through a paper hoop for the honour of dancing with Miss Grey, and I am proud to say I won the race. I also had the privilege of giving Miss Grey a mount on one of my hunters on the following day."
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The evening's dance card, mostly waltzes (valse) and polkas,
including the Welbeck Waltz whatever that was! |
The proposed ball was a big deal in the area as Welbeck was the preeminent house in Nottinghamshire where all royal visitors were hosted. Satellite functions to the ball would be held at nearby country houses.. "The Duke and Duchess of Portland will entertain a large party at Welbeck Abbey during the last week of this month for the Rufford Hunt Ball, which is to take place there, in the underground ball-room, on the 23rd. Lord and Lady Manners and Lord Savile will have parties for the function at Thoresby Park and Rufford Abbey respectively." - Truth magazine Nov. 5th.1891
The Hampshire Advertiser - Sat 28 Nov 1891 - A SUBTERRANEAN BALL AT WELBECK ABBEY.
When some two years ago Mr. Lancelot Rolleston, of Watnall, became Master of the Rufford Hounds, he and his wife, Lady Maud Rolleston, were anxious to bring the members of the hunt and their friends together at that pleasantest of all reunions, a hunt ball. Lady Maud mentioning the subject to the Duke of Portland he at once coincided with the idea, and added, "Why not have it at Welbeck ?" Why not, indeed! It would be an entertainment unique and unparalleled. It is needless to say the generous offer was accepted, and ever since great has been the excitement in the district round about the "Dukeries." To have a hunt ball was a great thing; but to have one at Welbeck, in the famous subterranean apartments, was to attain a height, or rather a depth never dreamt of. It came off on Wednesday night.
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| Welbeck Abbey c.1900 |
The wonders of Welbeck begin directly the South Lodge is passed. At once the visitor plunged into a tunnel, lighted now by skylights, which made weird shadows across the dark roadway, now by flickering gaslights, which danced ahead like so many will-o-the-wisps, while the clatter of the horses’ hoofs resounds like continuous pistol shots in the vault-like atmosphere. For a mile and a half this uncanny journey proceeded, and was, seemingly, never to end, when suddenly we turned sharply to the left, and lo and behold, the great house stood before us, as we emerged from the archway, like a giant barring the path. The change was so abrupt as fair to take away one’s breath, as we left the gloom and came out into the pale silver light. There are critics who condemn the architectural characteristics of the abbey, but be that as it may, it is unquestionably a stately centrepiece to this princely domain.  |
| Welbeck's South Lodge tunnel entrance |
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| The eccentric 5th Duke's bust |
It is almost impossible to do justice to the superb effect presented by the noble hall, which is nearly 160ft. long and over 68ft. wide. It is not only a ballroom, it is a winter garden of the loveliest flowers and foliage, and the immense space allows the beautiful masses of orchids, ferns, palms lilies, giant chrysanthemums, and flowering shrubs. But amid the delicate branches and gorgeous blooms on a dais at the far end of the hall is the white marble bust of him who devised this wondrous palace of enchantment, to what purpose none have ever known, unless it were to give work and bread to his poorer neighbours. And while the music falls and rises with voluptuous swell ; and fair women and men mingle in harmony of colour and form beneath the glittering chandeliers which stud the ceiling; and the laughter rings amidst the faint sweet odours of flowers, the changeless countenance gleams white as snow and cold as ice amid the tropical greenery. |
| The underground ballroom is nearly 160ft long and over 68ft wide |
"But are we really underground?" is the question which is constantly put by some fair unbeliever; and the doubt is fully justified. The descent to this delicious Avernus has been so easy; the elegance of these vast apartments so completely dispels ideas of vaults, catacombs, cellars, and other horrid places, that really when a lady begs her partner to open the window, so that she may strengthen her faith by looking at the garden-mould outside, one half expects him to throw open some secret casement and disclose the blackness not of earth, but of heaven. Moreover, the air is delightfully warm, owing to the hundreds of concealed hot-water pipes, while the myriad sky openings make ventilation absolutely perfect. It is wonderful, too, how the advantages of underground dwellings come forward. The dwellers in caves, hermits and smugglers of all nations, the Swiss Family Robinson, and even Hans Christian Andersen's Selfish Mole are cited as personages who were to be envied for frequenting habitations which, unlike those of the Primrose League¹, was never in evidence.
However, the gossip newspapers had an alternative view of proceedings. This is from "Truth⁵" magazine on Dec. 3rd 1891... "I did not go to the Rufford Hunt Ball at Welbeck Abbey. Consequently when I receive from equally trustworthy sources diametrically opposite opinions on this festivity I find some difficulty in dealing with it. On the one hand, I am told, in accordance with the accounts supplied to some other papers, that the whole entertainment was perfection. On the other, I am assured that, with the exception of the music, which seems to have satisfied everybody, the ball was a monument of bad management. One lady complains of the coldness of the ballroom and corridors, and another gives me this distressing account of the supper : "The supper was simply execrable, consisting mainly of pork- pies, moulds of jam and rice, and other decorative objects. The soup (so-called) was cold, and no better than greasy water stirred with a meat bone. As the Duke of Portland gave the rooms and gave the lighting and flowers, the committee ought at least, with guinea tickets, to have provided decent food. But the supply of eatables was totally inadequate for the immense number present.""
Oh dear! The pork pies are understandable though, it was a hunt ball after all, and pork pies were popularised in the Melton Mowbray area of Leicestershire for the local fox hunting fraternity.
You can read about the grand dinner the Watnall locals gave for the Rollestons at Beauvale School when they left Watnall Hall to move to Edwinstowe here
There are more "Tales from Watnall Hall" at the main website here
Notes and sources:
1891 Hampshire Advertiser;
1 - The Primrose League was an organisation for spreading Conservative principles in Great Britain. It was founded in 1883. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primrose_League
2 - 5th Duke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bentinck,_5th_Duke_of_Portland
3 - As an interesting side note, DH Lawrence's patron Lady Ottoline Morrell would have been living at Welbeck Abbey at this time. Born in 1873 in Kent, her half-brother inherited the dukedom from his cousin in 1879 and her branch of the family moved in. She would have been 6. She left for Oxford in 1899 aged 26. At the time of the ball in 1891 she was 18, the perfect age for attending a glamorous ball! In 1902 she married Philip Morrell, had a townhouse in Bloomsbury and bought Garsington Manor in 1911. That's where Lawrence met her. They connected partly on their shared Nottinghamshire upbringing despite being of completely different classes.
"The dukedom was a title which belonged to the head of the Cavendish-Bentinck family and which passed to Lady Ottoline's branch upon the death of their cousin, the 5th Duke of Portland, in December 1879.[2] In 1899, Ottoline began studying political economy and Roman history as an out-student at Somerville College, Oxford.[4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Ottoline_Morrell
This 1875 book describes the ballroom and tunnels as they are being constructed at that time - Robert White - Worksop "The Dukery" https://archive.org/details/worksopthedukery01whit/page/144/mode/2up?q=underground&view=theater
The ball room was also used as a gymnasium when the abbey was used by the army as an officer cadet training centre in the late 20th century.
Having a ball at Welbeck https://www.mikehigginbottominterestingtimes.co.uk/?p=420
https://houseandheritage.org/tag/worksop-manor/
4 - Leonard Jacks in his Great Houses book of 1881 describes the newly built "ballroom" and the grand scale of the works and employment created by the 5th Duke. He provided a great deal of employment for the locals... "Closely adjoining the library is a subterranean apartment of magnificent proportions, into which the light of heaven is admitted by about forty large octagonal sunlights placed in rows in the vast ceiling. It was suggested that the Duke meant this for a church, but there is nothing ecclesiastical in its appearance. No, it is not a church. It looks more like the very antithesis of a church — a ball room, and what a ball room it would make ! Its floor is of oak, and it massive roof supported by iron girders. At one end it is entered from above by means of a spiral staircase ; at the other it is approached by subterranean passages. Its flat ceiling is beautifully ornamented, and the eight iron girders which support it are of massive proportions. The room has been, as it were, dug out of the solid clay ; it was commenced five years ago, and to-day workmen are very busy within its spacious walls. This underground building, of which there is such a quantity at Welbeck, strange though it may seem to those who read about it, has certain special advantages. There is not the slightest suspicion of draught in these rooms, they are thoroughly heated by steam pipes, are perfectly free from damp, and the means of lighting employed is most successful.
The workshops at Welbeck are much too vast to admit of anything but a casual mention. There are great sheds, in which every kind of work is done by skilled workmen, aided by the very best machinery. In one room circular saws are whirring, and doing their speedy work ; in another blacksmiths' fires are burning, and men are striking sparks from large pieces of hot iron ; in another gigantic shed men are repairing carts and implements belonging to the estate ; in another a huge slab of stone is succumbing to the fell movement of a frame-saw, whilst another piece is being smoothed by a " rubber," which is kept in perpetual motion by a small vertical engine. The waste steam from the boilers has been put to an excellent use ; by it the whole of the workshops and buildings connected with them are heated, the steam passing through iron pipes — an admirable arrangement. There are joiners' shops, painters' shops, and plumbers' shops, which help to form a Bet pf workshops, such as none but the largest contractors possess, In another part of these very extensive work yards are stacks of timber — giant slices of oak, sound and hard as adamant, and close by there are great boles of trees, which have been brought from the forest by one or other of the five monster traction engines that are housed in sheds by themselves. Other great sheds are filled with iron rods of all thicknesses, and iron piping of every dimension, for all manner of work is done in these shops. A new set of offices, the walls of stone, and the interior fitted in the very best style, with stone staircases, clerk's rooms, private rooms, postman's rooms, lavatories, and heated by piping, through which passes the " exhaust " steam from the adjoining works, have recently been completed, or nearly so, and opposite a new house for the house steward, with spacious and expensively-fitted rooms, in which pitch pine has been largely employed, has just been erected.
In the late duke's time, people applying for employment at Welbeck were able to obtain it — no matter what they were — and the full market value has been paid for their labour."
5 - Truth magazine - Prince of Wales visits Welbeck - Dec 1891
Just after the November Hunt Ball of 1891, Welbeck had a much anticipated royal visit. But it did not go to plan as Truth magazine, a sort of Private Eye and royal/society gossip rag of its day, of Dec 24th 1891 explains...
"The Prince of Wales's visit to Welbeck was not particularly successful. Every arrangement had been made for the reception of the Princess, when the news arrived that she was not coming, and this disappointment diminished the hilarity of the large party which had been expressly invited to meet her. On Wednesday the Prince went out shooting in the Welbeck covers directly after breakfast. In less than five hours 2,236 head of game were killed by nine guns, and, as a matter of fact, the pheasants were so plentiful and so tame that firing into a poultry-yard would have been as exciting sport. A dance was given at night, which lasted from ten until four, supper being served at midnight.
On Thursday arrangements had been made for a "battue" at Clipstone Park, but there was such a dense fog that shooting was out of the question. The Prince went through the underground apartments, and looked at the pictures, and at the "show books" in the library, after which he drove to the stud farm at Hunciecroft and inspected the Duke's brood mares, foals, and stallions. On Friday the shooting-party at Clipstone took place, he Prince starting from Welbeck at half-past nine. The ladies arrived to luncheon at half-past one, escorted by Mr. Balfour, and after that meal, which was served in a marquee, shooting was resumed for another hour and a-half, and then the Prince drove back to Welbeck with the Duke of Portland; and, after drinking tea at the Abbey, he started for London. The party broke up on Saturday."
Truth was a British periodical publication founded by the diplomat and Liberal politician Henry Labouchère. The first issue was published on 4 January 1877. Labouchère founded the periodical after he left a virtual rival publication, The World. Truth was known for its exposures of many kinds of frauds, and was at the centre of several civil lawsuits.
6 - from the 6th Duke's autobiography "Men, Women and Things"
"On June 29th, 1881, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, came over from Bestwood to luncheon. He was accompanied by his host the Duke of St. Albans, Lady Spencer, known as ‘Spencer’s Fairy Queen’, Lady Claud Hamilton, Miss Mary Grey, now Lady Minto, Miss Violet Lindsay, now the Duchess of Rutland, and Ralph Bernal Osborne, father of the Duchess of St. Albans, widely known for his ability and his caustic wit. The party at Bestwood was for the opening of the University College, Nottingham, since removed to a beautiful site outside the City and, thanks to the great generosity of the late Lord Trent, equipped with splendid buildings. At a ball given at Bestwood on this occasion, I remember that, during the cotillon, Lancelot Rolleston and I raced through a paper hoop for the honour of dancing with Miss Grey, and I am proud to say I won the race. I also had the privilege of giving Miss Grey a mount on one of my hunters on the following day, when she distinguished herself"
Another note on he same ball... "In 1881 Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and a large party were guests at the Lodge on the occasion of the opening by the Prince of the University buildings. The Duke of St. Albans then gave a powder ball, a function at which, as is well known, the guests appear in old English costume, with wigs and powdered hair. " As reported in the Nottingham Daily Express, Wednesday May 11, 1898
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Bestwood Lodge Duke of Albany's visit 30/06/1881
as described above, Lady Minto is centre facing left,
Duke of Portland centre arms crossed,
Beauclerk 10th Duke of St Albanson right,
Duke of Albany seated centre,
no Rolleston? |
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| Same date different composition - Earl of Fife and Beauclerk seated right, |
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The sought after Miss Mary Grey, later Lady Minto,
wife of the Viceroy of Canada |
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| Visit of HRH Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, to Nottingham (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Visit of HRH Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, to Nottingham. Illustration for The Graphic, 2 July 1881.); Look and Learn |
The 6th Duke of Portland's memoirs continue...
"The Welbeck party for the first Show of the Royal Commission on Horse Breeding, which was held in Nottingham in February 1888, and of which I, as Master of the Horse, was the President, included the Rt. Hon. Henry Chaplin, Minister for Agriculture ; Lord Coventry, Master of the Buck Hounds ; Lord
Ribblesdale; Sir Jacob Wilson, representing the R.A.S.E.; Sir John Gilmour, father of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, recently Secretary of State for Scotland; Mr. Bowen Jones, representing the Central Chamber of Agriculture; and Mr. J. Herbert Taylor, the Secretary. Among other guests were Lord Rosslyn, Lord Calthorpe and Sir Matthew White Ridley, afterwards Home Secretary. The Show was a great success, and later Shows on the same lines were held, as they are still, in the Agricultural
Hall at Islington.
Soon after this, Miss Winifred Dallas-Yorke visited Welbeck for the first time. It was on March 11th, 1889, a few days after our engagement. The other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Dallas-Yorke, her father and mother; Sir Henry and Lady Margaret Graham, and the Hon. Eric and Mrs. Barrington, ^ her uncles and aunts; Lord and Lady Muncaster, Count Larisch, Count Ferdinand Rinsky, Lord Lurgan and Mr. J. J. Shannon, R.A., who painted a portrait of my future wife, as a wedding-present from my tenants. So ended the ten happy years of my life at Welbeck as a bachelor; and then began the — thanks to my dear wife — still happier years of my life as a married man.
My wife has kindly written for me a few recollections of her early life, and a short account of the foundation of the Orthopaedic Hospital at Harlow Wood, near Nottingham"
7 - The Nottingham Guardian's account of the ball
THE RUFFORD HUNT BALL. It will be remembered that the first of what promises to be a-series of these enjoyable functions was maugursted last year under the mas favourable circumstances, the idea, on its being first mooted, being taken up and warmly advocated, and the event to an issue, being practically the of the visit of the Prince of Wales to the mitself, when brought forerunner of a number of brilliant gatherings in celebration Duke and Duchess of Portland at Welbeck Abbey. As in the first instance, so again on Thursday, ther Duke of Portland placed the splendid suite of under-ground rooms at Welbeck Abbey at the disposal of the management for for the purposes of the ball, which was graced by the presence The picture orna-the representatives of the several county families and their fuende, the assembly numbering about 450 and forming a brilliant gathering. gallery was set apart for dancing, the ordinary imentations, together with the beautiful works of art, all lending attractiveness to the scene, which was further enhanced by the upholstering work which a. Foster and Cooper, of in the hands of Mr. Relton was entrusted to Messrs. Nottingham, and which was most satisfactorily carried out in every detail. Beyond this there were floral decorations on the most acals, Mr. Horton, the head gardener at the being responsible for the arrangement elaborate acale, Abbey, of innumerable and choice flowering planta in effective fashion. The adjoining corridor was also charmingly dealt with, both by Mr. Belton and Mr. Horton, the lengthy apartment, with its floral and other decorative accompaniments, being much resorted to and admired. Lady Maud Bolleston the wife of the Master of the Rufford (Mr. Lancelot Bolleston), sgain took a most active part in promot-time-ing the success of the gathering, being warmly assisted by gentlemen on the Mansfield, Worksop, and Ne Newark sides. Dancing commenced shortly after 10 o'clock to the strains of the sple splendid band of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, which, under the conductorship of Bandmaster Cavaliero Zavertal, contributed a being the programme of the dances:-
1. Valse 2. Polka 3. Valse 4. Quadrille 5 . Valse 6. Polka "En Foret" 7. Lancers 8. Valse 9. Pas de Quatre 10 . Valse.. " 11 . Polka.. 12. Valse 13. Galop 14 . Valse 15. Polka 16. Lancers. 17. Valse 18. Polka. 19. Pas de Quatre 20. Valse "Soldaten Lieder" Am St. Wolfgangsee" "Vienniose" "Jack in the Green "L'Etoile Polaire" Her Majesty's" Donau Wellen "Nautch Girl" Toreador" Toujours Gallant" Rosen aus dem Suden" "John Peel" "La Serenata" "Hilarite" "Gondoliers" Welbeck Valse" Drink, Puppy, Drink" "Iola" Souvenir d'Espagne" "Sir Roger de Coverley."
-1. Valse 2. Polka "Soldaten Lieder" Am St. Wolfgangsee" "Vienniose" 3. Valse 4. Quadrille Jack in the Green" 5. Valse "L'Etoile Polaire" 6. Polka "En Foret" 7. Lancers "Her Majesty's" 8. Valse "Donau Wellen" 9. Pas de Quatre "Nautch Girl" 10. Valse. "Toreador" 11. Polka. Toujours Gallant" 12. Valse Rosen aus dem Suden" 13. Galop "John Peel " 14. Valse "La Serenata" 15. Polka "Hilarite" 16. Lancers.. " Gondoliers" 17. Valse Welbeck Valse" 18. Polka. "Drink, Puppy, Drink" 19. Pas de Quatre "Iola" 20. Valse Souvenir d'Espagne" "Sir Roger de Coverley."
Light refreshments and supper were served in the apartments adjoining the ballroom, all of which were also prettily and tastefully decorated and up-holstered by Mr. Horton and Mesara. Foster and Cooper, the catering being entrusted to Gunter's, of Berkeley-square, London. The Welbeck House party present consisted of the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Lord and Lady Cadogan, the Ladies Emily and Sophie Cadogan, the Dowager Lady Dudley and Lady Edith Ward, Lord Willoughby, Lord and Lady Algernon Lennox, Lady Granby, Count Deym. Austrian Ambassador; Viscomte De Soveral, Portuguese Minister; Lord and Lady Newport, the Hon. Beatrice Bridgeman, Sır John and Lady Lister-Kaye, the Hon. Miriam Thellusson, Captain Halford, Mr. Montague Guest, Lord Charles Montagu, Mr. Murietta, Mr. Weston Jarvis, Mr. Gathorne-Hardy, and Mr. Higgins. Numerous parties were also present from Clumber, Thoresby, Rufford Abbey, and Osberton Hall, while special trains for the conveyance of guests were run from Sheffield, Chesterfield, and Newark by the Mid-land Railway Company. The company present included the following:-heron Thorpe Salvinir and Miss Aldreson, Worksop; Mrs. Aldreson, Sheffield; Mr. C. W. Aldreson. Lord and Lady Burton, the Hon. Catherine Beresford, Mr. C. Booth, Mrs. Burton Burrows, Mr. and Mrs. A. Booth, Miss H. Burnaby, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Barnes, the Misses Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Barnes, Chesterfield; Miss E. Bowden, Mr. and Mrs. H. Barclay, Captain Braddell, Major Barker.
The Countess of Coventry, Lady Barbara Coventry, Mr. M. Crossfield, Miss Cory, Mr. P. and Mr. P. H. C. Chrimes, Mr. H. Cliff, Mr. and Mrs. C. Curtis, Mr. C. Cockburn, Miss Campbell. The Lady Decies, Sir Francis Denys, Colonel and Mrs. Denison, Mr. E. Dixon,
Mr. Esson, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ellershaw. The Count and Countess de Florion, Mr. F. J. S. and Lady Gertrude Foljambe, Miss Flockton, Work sop: Dr. and Mrs. Fleming, Worksop; Mr. L. Frank, the Rev. N. and Mrs. Fitzherbert. Viscount and Viscountess Galway, Lady Esther Gore, Miss Goddard, the Rev. C. R. Gorton, and Mrs. Gorton, Walesby; Miss Gilstrap. Lady Ilene Hastings, Captain Holmes, Mr. George Heneage and Miss E. Heneage, Mr. J. W. Holmes, Mrs. Holmes, Captain and Mrs. Heavens, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hodding. Miss J. Irving. Mr. and Mrs. W. Jessop, Wallingwells; Mr. C. Jowett, Mis Jebb. Firback; linger and Mrs. C. E. Jeffcock, Captain Jebb. Lady Kenyon, Dr. Kemp, Worksop: Maion Kenny. Mr. E. de Lisle, Mr. and Mrs. E. Luke. Earl Manvers, Lady and Miss R. G. Maitland, Earl and Countess of Mar and Kellie, General Allen Maclean, Mrs. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Mars-land, Newark; Captain and Miss Macrae, Mr. Mrs. G. Manners, Miss Markham, Miss Morgan, Kirby, Sir H. and Miss Masson, Captain Menzies, the F. Mills, Count Koenig March, Captain Miller, the Hon. Maud de Moleyns. The Duchess of Newcastle, Miss Nicholson, Mrs. and Miss F. Nightingale. Mr. and Mrs. Otter, Mr. and Mrs. T. Oxley,, Mr. F. MrandM Lady Mary Pierrepont, Captain Prichard. Mr. Lancelot and Lady Maud Rolleston and party, Lady Raincliffe. Mr.T. Popplewell Royle, Mr. and Mrs.J. Robinson, Worksop Manor; Mr. R. Ringrose, Mr. W. S. Routledge, the Rev. J. A. Read, Captain Rickards, Miss Race Mr. and Mrs. S. Roberts. Viscount Sudeley, Captain the Hon. R. Somerset, Mr. J. S. W. Sitwell, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Starkey. Mrs. and the Misses Skinner, Mr. Sydney Smith, Worksop; Mrs, Shaw and party, Mr. and Mrs A. Staniforth, Miss Simpson, Miss Sutton, Southwell, Miss A.JM. Sutton, Mr. H. Sullivan, Miss Keith Stewart, Miss Sylvia Simpson, the Hon. Mrs. Stir ing. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Seely. Prince Adolphus of Teck, Mr. Francis Thomas, Miss Terry, Miss Twidle. Mr. J. S. Thorpe, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Turner, Mr. and Mrs. T. Warner Turner.
Turner. Lady Cecile Willoughby, Lady Nina Willoughby, Warrand Br Sir T. White, Bart., General, Mrs., and the Misses. Whitworth, Mr. C. Mrs. Tylden Wright, Mr. H. dr. C. S. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wightman, Mr. and Mrs. Wray, Miss Mr. E. Wright, E. Wigram, Mrs. R. H. Wordsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker, Maior and Mrs. Wiley. The Earl of Yarmouth, Mr. Young.
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