The Dukes (79 page)

b.
      
historical background

Dictionary of National Biography
(D.N.B. in reference notes). Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission
(Hist. MSS. Comm.)

T. B. Macaulay,
History of England
(1906).

G.
  
Burnett,
History of His Own Time
(1897-1900).

H.
    
Walpole,
Memoirs of the Reign of George II
(1846). H. Walpole,
Memoirs of the Reign of George III
(1845). Broughton,
Recollections of a Long Life
(1909).

Reresby,
Memoirs
(1735).

C.
    
Greville,
Memoirs,
ed Roger Fulford & Lytton Strachey, 8
Vols., (1938).

Sir N. W. Wraxall,
Historical Memoirs of My Own Time,
1
vol.
(1904).

Sir N. W. Wraxall,
Posthumous Memoirs,
2 vols. (1836). J. Bateman,
Great Landowners
(1883). G. Bebbington,
London Street Names
(1972).

F. M. L. Thomson,
English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century
(1963).

D.
  
Sutherland,
The Landowners
(1968). Junius,
Letters,
2 vols. (1797).

James Pope-Hennessey,
Queen Mary
(1959). Samuel Pepys,
Diary,
ed. Wheatley (1893-9).

T. Crcevcy,
Papers,
ed. Maxwell (1903). T. Creevey,
Life and Times,
ed. Gore (1934).

H. Walpole,
Correspondence,
Yale edition, ed. W. S. Lewis. (Cun­ningham edition of 1891 is used where specified in notes). J. Evelyn,
Diary,
ed. E. S. de Beer (1955).

c. other memoirs, anecdotes, gossip

Journal
of Elizabeth Lady Holland, ed. Earl of Ilchester (1908).

Augustus Hare,
The Years with Mother
(1952).

Augustus Hare,
In My Solitary Life
(1953).

Burke's
Romantic Records of the Aristocracy
(1850).

J. Timbs,
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
(1866).

W. M. Thackeray,
The Four Georges.

Anita Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
(1972).

E. F. Benson,
As We Were
(1930).

The Duchess of Bedford and James Frere,
Now the Duchesses
(1964).

Lord Hervey and His Friends,
ed. Earl of Ilchester (1950).
Lady Holland to Her Son,
ed. Earl of Ilchester (1946).
Leaves from the Notebooks
of Lady Dorothy Nevill, ed. R. Nevill (1910).

7th Duke of Manchester,
Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne
(1864).

9th Duke of Manchester,
My Candid Recollections
(1932).

Lord Ernest Hamilton,
The Halycon Era
(1933).

Chips,
the diaries of Sir Henry Ghannon, ed. R. R. James, (1967).

Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie,
Diary
(1928).

Emma, Lady Brownlow,
Slight Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian

(1867).

5th Duke of Sutherland,
Looking Back
(1957).

6th Duke of Portland,
Men, Women and Things
(1937).

E. Walford,
Old and New London,
5 vols. (1908).

Harriette Wilson,
Memoirs
(1924).

Lady Frances Balfour,
Ne Oblifiscaris
(1930).

Frances, Countess of Warwick,
Afterthoughts
(1931).

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan,
The Glitter and the Gold
(1953).

Margot Asquith,
Autobiography
(1962).

Thomas Raikes,
Journal
(1856).

D. FAMILY HISTORIES

There are many books not mentioned here which nonetheless find their way into the list of acknowledged references at the end of each chapter. The following is a list of suggested reading for those who wish to delve deeper into individual families.

1.
    
Fitzalan-Howard, Duke of Norfolk

Neville Williams,
Thomas Howard Fourth Duke of Norfolk
(1964).

Melvyn Tucker,
The Life of Thomas Howard, Second Duke of Norfolk
(1964).
A Duke of Norfolk Notebook.

2.
   
Seymour, Duke of Somerset

Harold St Maur,
Annals of the Seymours
(1902).

3. Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury Sir W. Fraser,
The Scotts of Buccleuch
(1878). Lord George Scott,
Lucy Walter, Wife or Mistress
(1947). Elizabeth d'Oyley,
James Duke of Monmouth
(1938).

4.
  
Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond & Gordon & Lennox

H. Forneron,
Louise de Kerouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth
(1887).

Jeanine Delpech,
Duchess of Portmouth
(1953). Earl of March,
A Duke and His Friends (
1911).

5.
  
Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans

P. Cunningham,
The Story of Nell Gwynn
(1903).

P. Dewar and D. Adamson,
The House of Nell Gwynn

(1974)-

6.
 
FitzRoy, Duke of Grafton

H. Noel William,
Rival Sultanas (
1915). Arthur Bryant,
King Charles II (
1931
).
Osmond Airy,
Charles II
(1904). Bernard Falk,
The Royal FitzRoys
(1950).

7.
  
Russell, Duke of Bedford

J. H. Wiffen,
Memoirs of the House of Russell
(1833). Christopher Trent,
The Russells
(1966).

Gladys Scott Thompson,
The Russells in Bloomsbury
(1940). Greater London Council,
Survey of London
, Vols. 35 and 36. Georgiana Blakiston,
Lord William Russell and His Wife
(I972).

Lord John Russell,
William, Lord Russell
(1820). 12th Duke of Bedford,
The Years of Transition
(1949). 13th Duke of Bedford,
A Silver-plated Spoon
(1959). 13th Duke of Bedford,
The Flying Duchess
(1968). Gladys Scott Thompson,
Two Centuries of Family History

(1930)
         
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8.
 
Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire

Francis Bickley,
The Cavendish Family
(1911). Vera Foster,
Two Duchesses
(1898). H. Leach,
The 8th Duke of Devonshire
(1904). Dorothy Stuart,
Dearest Bess
(1955).
Georgiana,
extracts from Correspondence of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (1955).

9.
 
Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland

A. S. Turberville,
History of Welbeck Abbey
(1939). Marion E. Grew,
William Bentinck and William III
(1924). Theodore Besterman,
The Druce-Portland Case
(1935).

10.
 
Somerset, Duke of Beaufort

Horatia Durant,
The Somerset Sequence
(1951).

Horatio Durant,
Henry 1st Duke of Beaufort and his Duchess

Mary
(1953).

11.
  
Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

Winston S. Churchill,
Marlborough
(1933).

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan,
The Glitter and the Gold

(i953)-

Mrs A. Colville,
Duchess Sarah
(1904).

12.
 
Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Elizabeth Longford,
Wellington,
2 vols. (1969, 1972). Philip Guedalla,
The Duke
(1931).

7th Duke of Wellington,
Conversations of the Duke of Well­ington with George William Chad
(1956).

13.
 
Percy, Duke of Northumberland

E. H. de Fonblanque,
Annals of the House of Percy
(1887).

M. M. Merrick,
Thomas Percy, yth Earl
(1949).

Earl Percy,
Letters from Boston and New York
(1902).