Henry Chaplin : a memoir prepared by his daughter the Marchioness of Londonderry.
The Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry (1879 - 1959)
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3088462.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
347, [1] p., plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Loosely inserted newspaper cutting describing the departure from London of Lady Florence Hastings (handwritten date June 26.06). Lady Hastings was engaged to Henry Chaplin before she eloped with the Marquess of Hastings. Also inserted is a small photograph of Henry "Harry" and Florence "Flora", Marquess and Marchioness of Hastings, by Lambert Weston & Son. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To Charley with my loving thanks for all he did to give him a happy home Edie Nov. 1926" [i.e. given to Charles, 7th Marquess of Londonderry by his wife Edith 7th Marchioness of Londonderry nee Chaplin]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate showing Vane-Tempest-Stewart arms marshalled with Chaplin, motto "Metuenda corolla draconis, with two supporters, all underneath a marquess's coronet with helmet and griffin passant crest, flanked by two badges, lettered in banner "Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry KG" [i.e. Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915 (1878-1949)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full polished mottled calf, single gilt rule forming a botder. Gilt armorial centre-piece [arms of Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1841-1923)], gilt tooling on spine. Brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelle, marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Small circular printed label "89" at head of spine.
Makers and roles
The Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry (1879 - 1959), author