Notes
- Lincolnshire Archive Office (hereafter LAO), 2 Tallents Yarb. The correspondence at this period is made up of a series of letters from both Lady Yarborough and Sir Charles Anderson to Godfrey Tallents relating to the estate during the minority
- Davidoff Leonore The Best Circles – society, etiquette and the season Croom Helm, London 1973 but see also the important chapter in Gerard Jessica Country House Life: family and servants, 1815-1914 Blackwell, Oxford 1994 ch. 5. Tillyard Stella Aristocrats Chatto & Windus London 1994 is largely concerned with the eighteenth century
- I am making a distinction here between upper-middle-class women and the aristocracy. Much more research has taken place on the first group, including Peterson M Jeane Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen Indiana University Press Bloomington 1989 and Davidoff Leonore Hall Catherine Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class 1780-1850 University of Chicago Press Chicago 1987 Although aristocratic women are referred to in these works and others, there are clear differences between the two groups as far as wealth, power and patronage are concerned
- Guest Revel John Angela V. Lady Charlotte – a biography of the nineteenth century Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 1989
- See Liddington Jill Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax (1791-1840): her diaries and the historians, History Workshop 1993 35 45 77 Spring Although she lived earlier in the nineteenth century, Anne Lister inherited the Shibden estate, which comprised not only the agricultural estate, with its farms and tenancies, but also mining and quarrying interests. Although for different reasons, Anne Lister was concerned with the successful management of these enterprises in order to maximise her profits. Anne Lister's position in society, however, was within the ranks of the gentry rather than the aristocracy, although there is a suggestion that she achieved some upward social mobility. However, the work done on Anne Lister does demonstrate the achievements of, in this example, a single woman in the early nineteenth century
- Guest John Lady Charlotte 62 74 demonstrate the commitment of Lady Charlotte Guest to provide adequate schooling for Dowlais, and that of her sister-in-law Anne Guest in Cardiff
- Gerard Country House Life 120
- Davidoff The Best Circles 99
- Perkin Joan Women and Marriage in Nineteenth Century England Routledge London 1989 87
- Perkin Joan Victorian Women John Murray London 1993 202
- Guest John Lady Charlotte 49 60 Lady Charlotte not only attended debates in the House, but also canvassed with her husband
- Note also Dorothea Brooke's attitude to and interest in estate cottages in Eliot George Middlemarch London 1871-72
- Quoted in Jalland Pat Women, Marriage and Politics 1860-1914 Clarendon Press Oxford 1986 235
- Girouard Mark The Victorian Country Yale University Press New York 1979 117 118
- Gerard Country House Life 120
- Lever Tresham The Herberts of Wilton J. Murray London 1967 208
- Beckett V J The Aristocracy in England 1660-1914 Blackwell; Oxford 1986 305 F. M. L. Thompson (1955) The end of a great estate, Economic History Review, 2nd series, VIII
- Thompson L. F.M. English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century Routledge, London 1963 particularly chapter X; Spring David The English Landed Estate in the Nineteenth Century: its administration John Hopkins Press; Baltimore 1963 David Cannadine (1977) Aristocratic indebtedness: the case re-opened, Economic History Review, 2nd series, XXX, pp. 624-650; David Cannadine (1980) Aristocratic indebtedness in the nineteenth century: a restatement, Economic History Review, 2nd series, XXXIII, pp. 569-573; David Cannadine (1977) The landowner as millionaire: the finances of the Dukes of Devonshire, c. 1800-1926, Agricultural History Review, 25, Part 2, pp. 77-79
- LAO Yarb. 5/2/2/14 Accounts 1874-75
- LAO Yarb. 3/1/1/51 Marriage Settlement dated 30 July 1858
- Olney J R Rural Society and County Government in Nineteenth Century Lincolnshire Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Lincoln 1979 40 Richard Olney provides more detail on the background of the Andersons, pp. 39-41
- Ibid., p. 48
- Will of the Third Earl of Yarborough, LAO Yarb. 3/5/30 dated 17 November 1870
- LAO 2 Tallents Yarb. Letter from Charles Anderson to Godfrey Tallents, 27 February 1875
- Bateman J The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland Leicester University Press Leicester 1883 reprinted 1971 273, gives the late Earl's estates as 35,541 acres
- LAO 2 Tallents Yarb. Letter from Lady Victoria Yarborough to Godfrey Tallents dated 24 February 1875
- Ibid., 23 March 1875
- Ibid., 27 February 1875
- Ibid. 21 July 1875
- Thompson English Landed Society 149
- A historian of the Brocklesby hounds in 1902 wrote: “Her Ladyship's great popularity helped the Hunt through a period that in other circumstances might have proved almost disastrous”. Collins George E. A History of the Brocklesby Hounds 1700-1901 published privately London 1902 13
- See Martins Susanna Wade A Great Estate at Work: the Holkham estate and its inhabitants in the nineteenth century Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1980 77 83 for details of the role of the Home Farm at Holkham, Norfolk
- LAO 2 Tallents Yarb. Letter from Lady Victoria Yarborough to Godfrey Tallents dated 31 January 1876
- Ibid. Letter from Charles Anderson to Godfrey Tallents dated 10 May 1875
- Ibid., 14 May 1875
- Ibid., 2 February 1876
- Ibid., 18 July 1876
- Ibid., 24 March 1878
- Ibid., 7 April 1876
- Ibid., 10 May 1875
- Ibid., 25 February 1875
- Ibid., 7 April 1976
- Lady Yarborough had been appointed guardian of her children and their possessions during any minority, by her husband's will, dated 17 November 1870. LAO Yarb. 3/5/30
- LAO 2 Tallents Yarb. 12 January 1877. Letter from Lady Yarborough to Godfrey Tallents
- Ibid., 23 March 1875. Letter from Charles Anderson to Godfrey Tallents
- LAO Yarb. 3/1/1/57. A Declaration of Trust dated 24 January 1881 gives details of the repayment of a number of mortgages
- LAO 2 Tallents Yarb. Letters from Lady Yarborough to Godfrey Tallents dated 17 December 1875, 10 April 1877, 13 April 1877
- Quoted in Richardson Mary E. The Life of a Great Sportsman published privately 1919 41
- Ibid., p. 42
- According to George E. Collins, “No people could be more popular than the Squire of Healing and his wife Victoria Lady Yarborough …”. Collins Brocklesby Hounds 1902 13
- For example, see correspondence in the Paston papers between Margaret Paston and her husband Sir The Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century Davies John N. Oxford University Press Oxford 1971-72 2 vols
- See Holcombe Lee Wives and Property Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983 particularly chapter 9, which outlines the struggles and debates which took place during the 1870s to amend and reform the first Act. It should be noted, however, that Pat Jalland feels “the reform was more symbolic than real”, as far as the upper and middle classes were concerned. Jalland Pat Women, Marriage and Politics 68 It might also be noted that Sir Charles Anderson was a Tory, although his upbringing had been in a Whig family
- Both quoted in Gerard Country House Life 118
- LAO Yarb. 3/1/1/51 Marriage Settlement 1858
- LAO Yarb. 3/1/1/54 Appointment of additional sums by way of jointure 1862
- See Jalland Pat Women, Marriage and Politics Clarendon Press, Oxford 1986 58 72, where she discusses the value of marriage settlements
- LAO Yarb. 3/5/30 Will of the Earl of Yarborough, 1870