tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post3689650024464789581..comments2024-03-28T12:00:29.857+00:00Comments on Historical and Regency Romance UK: The Mysterious Madame LanchesterLouise Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895724319451189592noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-84256045967140893332022-08-14T19:28:38.566+01:002022-08-14T19:28:38.566+01:00This ties into one of our family stories that I ca...This ties into one of our family stories that I can't get all the facts pulled together around. She and Ann Devis her partner in at least one of these establishments also seemed to provide "other services" From which two small children emerged - her brother the Reverend Lanchester (whom I am still trying to find), adopts these two (Fredrick and Mary) who Arthur Wm. Devis portrays in his paintings "The Age of innocence" and "Infantile Amusement". Fred has a son Henry who is a famous architect, and in turn has a family of Geniuses. Henry Vaughn - another famous Architect, Dr Fredrick the polymath and inventor, Mary who was a royal academician and suffragette, Frank the Lanchester Automobile and Lanchester sub-machine gun builder, Edith a radical thinker and the mother of Elsa Lanchester the actress, Eleanor another suffragette, George the business man behind the Lanchester Automobile, and Edward (Ted) who immigrated to Australia. Unfortunately my family isn't the brains, but the adopting uncle! Families from both sides of that adoption tell the same story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-9949563540443224252020-05-16T15:37:25.355+01:002020-05-16T15:37:25.355+01:00Thank you Heather for your post. I have added the ...Thank you Heather for your post. I have added the news article to my Ancestry.com tree. Here's a link if anyone wants to have a look:<br />https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/87356141/person/32558906796/factsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-32154304783237976442020-05-06T10:20:02.783+01:002020-05-06T10:20:02.783+01:00I found this snippet in a newspaper and wanted to ...I found this snippet in a newspaper and wanted to post it in a place where someone searching for Madame Lanchester might find it. This comes from The Times, published Thursday 12th April 1810. (front page)<br /><br />"MADAME LANCHESTER begs most respectfully to acknowledge the high sense of gratitude she feels for the distinguished honour and liberal patronage she has long experienced from the Nobility and Gentry, whose polite and marked attention to her Fashionable Establishment, in St. James's-street, will forever be impressed on her mind, with the liveliest feelings of sensibility after recently defeating (with the kind assistance of her friends)a most illiberal and unwarrantable attempt to harrass and destroy her unwearied endeavours to provide for her family; she is happy in the opportunity of informing her friends and patrons that she has been enabled to resume her business with more advantages than heretofore, and to adopt such arrangements as will convince the Nobility, Gentry and public at large, that her future exertions shall be invariably devoted to merit a continuance of their patronage and kind indulgence. The ready-made articles in Millinery, Dresses, Pelisses &c. &c. will be sold at reduced prices. Country Milliners will be treated with the same liberal terms as hitherto."<br /><br />A bittersweet advertisement, given the information posted by Anonymous above about the years following this effort to restart her business. :(Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11960421854750132966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-62754679074587750392016-09-07T15:54:35.901+01:002016-09-07T15:54:35.901+01:00Further to my previous post regarding the mysterio...Further to my previous post regarding the mysterious Madam Lanchester, I have now found further information which details her later years and death. She was jailed for bankruptcy in Marshalsea Prison on the 8th Feb 1812. She was discharged on the 1st Jan 1813 on the surety of Arthur William Devis. She died Nov 1818 at her home in Caroline St, Bedford Square and was buried at St Giles in the Fields Churchyard on the 2nd Dec 1818. The illustrations are almost certainly the work of A.W. Devis who died at the same address some four years later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-68923256884306910242016-07-14T08:42:35.014+01:002016-07-14T08:42:35.014+01:00Could the illustrations be the work of Arthur Will...Could the illustrations be the work of Arthur William devis?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-48713274398974954492016-01-14T16:34:28.014+00:002016-01-14T16:34:28.014+00:00Hi, I have little interest in fashion but I can te...Hi, I have little interest in fashion but I can tell you what happened to Margaret Lanchester. She married Arthur William Devis (Portrait Painter) on the 4th Sep 1806. Her extravagance also drove him into bankrupcy for which he was eventually imprisoned. Miss Lanchester ran her business alongside Arthur's sister Ann Devis. I assume this was the reason for his largesse. Arthur was eventually released from prison and went on to paint his most famous work "The Death of Nelson". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-17222484395667182752013-04-18T06:31:38.586+01:002013-04-18T06:31:38.586+01:00I was doing some extra research on women's mag...I was doing some extra research on women's magazines in the Regency.<br /><a href="www.sell-rolex.co.uk" rel="nofollow">Sell Rolex watch</a>Sell My Rolexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18053249157723165006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-237690309253286392013-03-24T11:42:40.367+00:002013-03-24T11:42:40.367+00:00Oh my, that is a STORY! The rise and rise of Mme L...Oh my, that is a STORY! The rise and rise of Mme Lanchaster...<br /><br />Exquisite drawings.Jan Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00471022034388834235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-81225804361092495782013-03-23T18:32:06.290+00:002013-03-23T18:32:06.290+00:00Fascinating post, Louise. I agree with Christina -...Fascinating post, Louise. I agree with Christina - she was obviously a very talented lady.Elizabeth Hawksleyhttp://www.elizabethhawksley.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-13966594556916790642013-03-23T14:54:23.776+00:002013-03-23T14:54:23.776+00:00What a shame that she disappeared into obscurity! ...What a shame that she disappeared into obscurity! She was obviously very talented, but perhaps not good with managing money? Interesting post, Louise!Christina Courtenayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647397808446248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-34812802712326991202013-03-19T13:23:15.116+00:002013-03-19T13:23:15.116+00:00Those are beautiful illustrations, Louise. Thanks....Those are beautiful illustrations, Louise. Thanks. <br /><br />Funnily enough I was doing some extra research on women's magazines in the Regency the other day, but later.<br /><br />JoJo Beverleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-15003288820114661982013-03-19T11:19:11.789+00:002013-03-19T11:19:11.789+00:00Lovely pictures and fascinating story. Hadn't ...Lovely pictures and fascinating story. Hadn't heard about her before. Thanks.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com