Those Wild Wyndhams (72 page)

59
. Ibid.

60
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
256
.

61
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
13
April
1915
(
Letters
, p.
323
).

62
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
292
.

63
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
26
May
1915
, pp.
29
–
30
.

64
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
28
September
1914
, Blunt Papers, FM
719
-
1975
.

65
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
7
October
1915
, Stanway Papers.

66
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
17
May
1915
(
Letters
, pp.
324
–
5
).

67
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
287
.

68
. Ibid., p.
252
; Asquith,
Diaries
, p. xvii.

69
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
264
.

70
. His real name was Algernon Walter, but he was known always as Tom.

71
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
263
.

72
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
18
November
1915
, Blunt Papers, FM
778
-
1975
.

73
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
13
April
1915
(
Letters
, p.
322
).

74
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, Easter Saturday
1915
(
Letters
, p.
320
).

75
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
326
.

76
. Quoted in ibid., pp.
325
–
6
.

77
. Pamela Tennant to Margot Asquith,
12
March
1918
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6676
ff.
144
–
8
.

78
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, pp.
119
–
20
.

79
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
19
October
1915
, p.
90
.

80
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
119
.

81
. Ibid., p.
118
.

82
. Ibid., pp.
157
–
8
.

83
. Quoted in Ziegler,
Diana Cooper
, p.
80
.

84
. Duff Cooper,
The Duff Cooper Diaries
1915
–
1951
, ed. John Julius Norwich (Phoenix,
2006
),
9
January and
18
February
1916
, pp.
24
and
25
.

85
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
15
September
1915
, p.
79
.

86
. Sibell Adeane married Edward Kay-Shuttleworth in December
1914
. Madeline Adeane married Denis Wigan in October
1915
.

87
. Pamela Tennant to Margot Asquith,
12
March
1918
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, Add. MS. Eng. c.
6676
ff.
144
–
8
.

88
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, pp.
121
–
2
.

89
. Tennant,
Waiting for Princess Margaret
, p.
119
; see also Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
12
.

90
. Edward Grey to Edward Tennant,
7
August
1915
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
60
/
4
f.
18
r.

91
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
303
.

92
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
23
August
1915
, p.
71
.

93
. Ibid.,
9
September
1915
, p.
77
.

94
. Forbes,
Memories and Base Details
, p.
201
.

95
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, pp.
305
–
6
.

96
. Forbes,
Memories and Base Details
, p.
201
.

97
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
190
.

98
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
9
September
1915
, p.
77
.

99
. Forbes,
Memories and Base Details
, p.
201
.

100
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
307
.

101
. Ibid.

1
. Madeline Wyndham to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
6
October
1915
, Blunt Papers, FM
772
-
1975
.

2
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
281
.

3
. Sir Alan Lascelles,
End of an Era: Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles from
1887
to
1920
, ed. Duff Hart-Davis (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
2006
),
12
July
1912
, p.
128
.

4
. Those grandsons include my father: his mother is Tommy’s eldest daughter.

5
. Lascelles,
End of an Era
, p.
162
.

6
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
312
.

7
. Ibid., pp.
315
–
16
; Edward Wyndham Tennant to Pamela Tennant,
18
August
1915
, quoted in Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
127
.

8
. Ibid., p.
130
.

9
. Yvo Charteris to Hugo Elcho,
6
October
1915
, quoted in Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
322
.

10
. Yvo Charteris to Cynthia Asquith,
7
October
1915
, ibid., p.
324
.

11
.
The Times
,
21
June and
7
August
1915
.

12
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
190
.

13
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
172
.

14
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
190
.

15
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
326
.

16
. Ibid., p.
312
.

17
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
191
; Asquith,
Diaries
,
24
October
1915
, p.
93
.

18
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
145
.

19
. In September
1915
, Bim had written to Pamela of the generals commanding his Guards brigade, division and army corps and the First Army, ‘respectively … Brigadier General Hayworth, General Lord Cavan, General Haking, and Haig at the head of the list. They are all very fine generals and I could wish for no one else.’ Just a month later, from Vermelles, Bim wrote in his poem ‘
Á Bas la Gloire
’ of those:

who didn’t die

Although they were in France – these sat in cars,

And whizzed about with red-band caps, awry,

Exuding brandy and the best cigars,

With bands and tabs of red, they could defy

The many missives of explosive Mars

(Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, pp.
134
,
151
). The contrast shows the change wrought in Bim, or at least the extent to which he concealed his true thoughts from his parents in favour of the cheerful, trusting son they wished to see.

20
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
22
October
1915
, p.
92
.

21
. Ibid.,
19
October
1915
, pp.
90
–
1
.

22
. Ego Charteris to Mary Elcho,
25
October
1915
, quoted in Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
352
; Asquith,
Diaries
,
3
July
1916
, p.
186
.

23
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
20
October
1915
, p.
91
.

24
. Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, p.
202
.

25
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
8
December
1921
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
29
r.

26
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
5
December
1915
, Blunt Papers, FM
779
-
1975
.

27
. Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, p.
202
.

28
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
5
December
1915
, Blunt Papers, FM
779
-
1975
.

29
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
22
December
1915
(
Letters
, p.
322
).

30
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
9
June
1916
, Stanway Papers.

31
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, Appendix III.

32
. Ibid., p.
184
.

33
. Ibid., p.
189
.

34
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
9
June
1916
, Stanway Papers.

35
. For an illustration, see Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
175
, plate
94
.

36
. Ibid.

37
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
13
.

38
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
9
June
1916
, Stanway Papers.

39
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
22
April
1916
, p.
158
.

40
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
372
.

41
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
22
April
1916
, p.
160
.

42
.
The Times
,
25
,
26
,
27
April
1916
.

43
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
26
September
1916
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
.

44
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
194
.

45
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
372
.

46
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
19
May
1916
, p.
166
.

47
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
7
May
1916
(
Letters
, p.
337
).

48
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
20
May
1916
, p.
167
.

49
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
375
.

50
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
339
; Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
373
; Asquith,
Diaries
,
28
June
1916
, p.
181
.

51
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
1
July
1916
, p.
182
.

52
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
3
July
1916
(
Letters
, p.
339
).

53
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, July
1916
, Stanway Papers.

54
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
373
. In fact, as Cynthia’s diary shows, the news came on
1
July
1916
.

55
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
3
July
1916
(
Letters
, p.
339
).