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Revision as of 18:48, 26 April 2022
| Wentworth Huyshe | |
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 Portrait Wentworth Huyshe by Julius Rolshoven, c. 1894 | |
| Born | 13 Ap 1847 Ambala, India |
| Died | 2 December 1934 (aged 87) Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire, England |
| Spouses | Gertrude Verplank Uhlhorn (1847-1918)
(m. 1869; divorced 1887)Hester Harte née Cook (1855-1934)
(m. 1887) |
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| House | Plantagenet |
| Father | Gen. Alfred Huyshe (1811-1880) |
| Mother | Julia Maria Hagar (1811-1890) |
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Arms: Argent on a Bend Sable three Roaches Argent the Tails Or Crest: Upon a Wreath of the Colours an Elephant's Head couped Argent ducally crowned Or Motto: Fide et Taciturnitate (Faithful and Silent) Authority: In use from late 14th century; confirmatory grants from College of Arms 1598 and 1978. | |
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Wentworth Huyshe
Wentworth Huyshe was born on Tuesday the 13th of April 1847 Umbala on the Cantonment (modern day Ambala, India) amid the growing unrest in Northern India and anti-British feelings towards their rulers. He was baptised in Meerut, Bengal, and was to be the 4th of 5 sons to survive. His father was then a Captain in the Royal Artillery and later to become General Alfred Huyshe and his mother was Julia Maria née Hagar.
Early Years
In overlapping phases he was journalist, historian, translator, designer, composer and actor, but being a writer suited him best. He had a passion for all things mediaeval.
Journalism
Huyshe’s main occupation was journalism and on it depended, for a short period at least, a family of thirteen. He began writing for newspapers in about 1876 and in 1919, at the end of 72, he was still penning occasional articles for the Daily Graphic.
In an article entitled ‘’The Omdurman Victory’’ for the ‘’Saturday Review’’ in 1898 about the Battle of Omdurman, Huyshe wrote a tribute to the opponents ‘’Gordon is avenged with vengeance’’ but also praises the dervishes ‘’What has there been since Thermopylae finer than the stand of the heroic warriors around the Khalifa’s flag?’’[1]
At the time of his death in 1934 he was reputedly the oldest war correspondent in England. He had served on the Staff of the New York Herald during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) and The Times during the Sudan Campaign (Mahdist War), where he witnessed the bloody Battle of Suakin on March 22, 1885. Following the war he worked for various papers, including the ‘’The Graphic’’ and ‘’The Daily Graphic’’.[2]
Maugham wrote to Huyshe "Times are very hard & publishers very moneyless at present," and "I cannot tell when the clouds will roll by!"[3]
"Pictures were another passion of Maugham's, and here he had a mentor in the eccentric form of one Wentworth Huyshe. A generation older than Maugham, Huyshe had been a distinguished war correspondent for both the New York Herald and the New York Herald and the London Times. He had lived and worked in London, Paris, and New York and had married twice, eventually settling with his wife and none children in Essex[4], where he led a bohemian existence in pursuit of his many and varied interests. A friend first of Harry Maugham, Huyshe saw considerable promise in Harry's younger brother. He encouraged Maugham with his writing and took him to concerts, galleries, and museums, teaching him how to look at pictures and introduce him to new names and various branches of the arts. When Maugham's first novel was published a few years later, he enscribed a copy to Wentworth Huyshe and sent it to him with a grateful letter. "I can never forget how kind you were to me when I was a stupid boy, & you took me about & showed me things, & inspired me with all sorts of new ideas. I can honestly say that I owe a very great deal to you, and now it is a great pleasure for me to be able to send you my first-born[5]."[6]
A feature of his life is the sudden change of direction, the volte face, the break with the orthodox and the familiar, the restless pursuit of the new. In early married life he moved house many times, he bounced from one employer to another and back again, he divorced and remarried, converted to Catholicism, plunged into a succession of disciplines and skills and enthusiasms. Personal relationships were often threatened as a consequence.
In 1887 he married Hester Hart, and became stepfather to Hester’s 3 surviving sons – Will (carver at the Guild of Handicraft and working partner with Alec Miller’s studio in Calf Lane), Fred (sea captain and collector) and George (silversmith at the Guild of Handicraft) – and had 8 further children with her. The family eventually settled in Hitchin, Herts in 1897, but in 1906 followed Huyshe’s stepson George – then working with C.R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft – to Chipping Campden. Huyshe was 59 and still working for the Daily Graphic. In the 1920’s American Ben Chandler kindly bought the freehold of Pike House from the Gainsborough estate and allowed the Huyshes to live there for the rest of their lives.
Hester died on the 25th April, 1934 and Wentworth died eight months later on Dec 2nd 1934 in Pike House. He left the contents of the house, excluding portraits, to Fred Hart. Their grave is in St Catherine’s Catholic Churchyard, the stone carved by Alec Miller.
His was an erratic life, and in some respects a sad one. He was a passionate man – for Hester, for collecting, for all his pursuits and interests. He had great energy and considerable intellect. He was a good shot and a good rider. He was brave, sometimes to the point of foolhardiness. He could be waspish; he liked pretty women; a few people thought him snobbish. Yet he was also liked, loved and respected – sometimes ruefully – in all the worlds in which he moved, even by those who were bemused or baffled by his heterogeneous achievements and eccentricities. He was a restless soul.
Much of this information is taken from the Introduction to The Various Lives of Wentworth Huyshe.
To read more about Wentworth Huyshe, buy the book The Various Lives of Wentworth Huyshe by T F G Jones, published by CADHAS
Family
Siblings
1. Alfred George Huyshe - [7] - born 10th May 1839, Cawnpore, (modern day Kanpur) in Uttar Pradesh Province, India. Baptized: 23rd July 1839 Cawnpore in Uttar Pradesh Province Alfred George Huyshe[8]. Later to become Maj. Gen. Alfred George Huyshe C.B. (Companion Order of the Bath). Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 6th August 1886, London, Buried: 9th August 1886 Old Brompton Cemetery, Earl's Court, grave: 133233[9] - Residing at: 3 Charlotte Street, Chelsea.
2. Francis John Huyshe - born 16th August 1840, Cawnpore, (modern day Kanpur) in Uttar Pradesh Province, India. [10]. Later to become Vicar of Wimborne Minster (church), Honorary Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. and Rural Dean. Died 13th October 1905 Wimborne Minster
3. Dunbar Fraser Huyshe - born 3rd December 1841, Cawnpore, (modern day Kanpur) in Uttar Pradesh Province, India. [11]. Later to become Lt. Col. Dunbar Fraser Huyshe Royal Artillery
4. Julia Ellen Sophie born 20th April 1842 died- 25th August 1845 At Mussooree, Julia Ellen Sophie, daughter of Brevet Capt. Huish, Horse Artillery, aged 2 years 4 months[12]
5. a son Huyshe[13] - born 28th June 1844, Cawnpore, (modern day Kanpur) in Uttar Pradesh Province, India. died ?
6. Emily L C D Huyshe daughter Huyshe[14] - born 2nd August 1845, Mussoorie, in Uttarakhand Province, India died - Emily L C D Huyshe 1st June 1846 ages 10 months[15]
7. Wentworth Huyshe[16] - born 13th April 1847, Meerut in Uttar Pradesh Province, Indi. Baptized: Agra in Uttar Pradesh Province Wentworth Huyshe[17]. See above
8. Edward Vyvyan Husyhe [18] - born 20th July 1850, Umbala, (modern day Ambala) in Haryana Province, India. Baptized: Agra in Uttar Pradesh Province Edward Vyvyan Huyshe[19]. Later to become Col. Edward Vyvyan Huyshe Welsh Regt (41st Foot)
Marriages
1st Marriage:
Gertrude Verplank Uhlhorn (1847-1918), the only daughter of William C. Uhlhorn, Governor of the Wyndward Islands, on the 26th of October 1869 in New York[20]. She filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery in 1885 and a decree nisi was granted on the 11th of January 1887[21]. She married secondly to Jacob Lorillard (1839-1916) of the The Lorillard Tobacco Company, New York.
Issue:
i Gertrude Van Cortlandt Wentworth Huyshe born 11th December 1879[22].Died 26th July 1880 and buried in Old Brompton Cemetery[23].
2nd Marriage:
Hester Harte née Cook (1855-1934) windows of Frederick Thomas Harte (1852-1882), by whom she had William Thomas Hart (1878-1966), Frederick Philip Hart (1879-1971), Harold George Hart (1880-1880), George Henry Hart (1882-1973). Frederick Thomas Hart died in an accident in 1882. Hester married Wentworth Huyshe in 1887[24].
i Pauline Huyshe (1884-1979)
ii Wentworth Huyshe (1888 - ?)
iii Hester Anne Huyshe (1889-1975)
iv Richard Wilfred Huyshe (1893-1977)
v. Reynell Oswald Huyshe (1895-1939)
vi Jeanette Huyshe (1897-1982)
Publications
1. The liberation of Bulgaria; war notes in 1877 by Wentworth Huyshe (7 editions published in 1894 in English) Published by: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1894 - Bulgaria - 316 pages
2. The life of Saint Columba (Columb-Kille) A.D. 521-597 : founder of the monastery of Iona and first Christian missionary to the pagan tribes of North Britain by Adamnan( Book - 26 editions published between 1874 and 1939)
3. The royal manor of Hitchin, and its lords, Harold, and the Balliols by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book 7 editions published between 1906 and 2010 in English)
4. Beowulf an Old English epic (the earliest epic of the Germanic race) ( Book 13 editions published between 1907 and 1980 in English)
5. Dervorgilla, lady of Galloway, and her Abbey of the Sweet Heart by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book - 14 editions published between 1913 and 2010 in English) Published by: D. Douglas, 1913 - Sweetheart Abbey - 157 pages
6. The graphic history of the South African War, 1899-1900 : complete narrative of the campaign by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book - 6 editions published in 1900 in English)
7. Norman Balliols in England : compiled in part from Mr. Wentworth Huyshe's Harold and the Balliols, with illus. and add. matter, incl. ... a pedigree by Ben Scott
8. Grey Galloway, its lords and its saints by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book - 1 edition published in 1914 in English)
9. The life of Saint Columba (Columb-kille), A.D. 521-597 by Adamnan ( Book - 4 editions published between 1905 and 1908 in English)
10. The Norman Balliols in England, comp. in part from Mr. Wentworth Huyshe's Harold and the Balliols, with illustrations and additional matter, including two introductory and two concluding chapters and a pedigree by Benjamin J Scott (Book - 2 editions published in 1914 in English)
11. The liberation of Bulgaria; war notes in 1877. With illustrations and maps by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book - 4 editions published between 1894 and 2011)
12. The Life of Saint Columba Columb-Kille-A.D. 521-597 ... Newly translated from the Latin with notes and illustrations by Wentworth Huyshe by Saint, Abbot of Hy ADAMNAN ( Book 3 editions published in 1906 in English)
13 Life of Saint Columba, founder of Hy by Adamnan ( Book 1 edition published in 1905 in English)
14 The Royal Manor of Hitchin and its Lords, Harold and the Balliols ... With illustrations by F.L. Griggs and D. Macpherson by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book - 3 editions published in 1906)
15. The Norman Balliols in England. Compiled in part from Mr. Wentworth Huyshe's Harold and the Balliols. With illustrations and additional matter, etc by Benjamin J SCOTT ( Book - 2 editions published in 1914 in English)
16. The Balliols and the Royal Manor of Hitchin, etc by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book 3 editions published in 1906)
17. The Winter of the Heart. Song, words by L. Manard by Wentworth Huyshe (2 editions published in 1895 in Undetermined
18. The life of Saint Columba (Columba-Kille) A.D. 521-597 : founder of the monastery of Iona and first Christian missionary to the pagan tribes of North Britain by Adamnan ( Book in English)
19. Beowolf : an Old English epic (the earliest epic of the Germanic race) ( Book - 2 editions published in 1908)
20. Dervorgilla, Lady of Galloway, and her Abbey of the Sweet Heart ... With illustrations by F. Fissi and the author by Wentworth Huyshe ( Book 1 edition published in 1913 in English)
Plantagenet Descent
Huyshe's Plantagenet is derived through his mother and can show his 7 lines of descent from Edward III, and several from Edward I from both his father and mother.
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References
- ^ reprinted in ‘’Living Age’’ 219, no.2831 (8 October 1898) p.121-123
- ^ ‘’Encyclopaedia of the British Press’’, Dennis Griffiths 1992; ‘’From Our Special Correspondent’’, Robert Wilkinson-Latham1979
- ^ The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography -p. 81 Selina Hastings · 2012
- ^ The family moved to Besom Cottage, Thornwood Common, Essex in 1887 and remained there for five years, then to Piggit's Farm, Abridge, Essex in 1894, and Horseshoes Farm between Epping and Harlow in 1895 as detailed by Huyshe's step-son Fred in - A Memoir by Frederick P. Hart Lt. Cmd R.N. , p.4-7 pub. priv. Irmadene Haberly 1973
- ^ Liza of Lambeth - novel by W. Somerset Maugham, pub. 1897 T. Fisher Unwin
- ^ The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography -p. 41 Selina Hastings · 2012
- ^ Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East. July ed. 1843
- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
- ^ Brompton, London, England, Cemetery Registers, 1840-2012
- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
- ^ Bombay Almanac 1846
- ^ Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East. Thursday September 12th Ed., 1844
- ^ Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East. Saturday October 4th Ed., 1845
- ^ Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East. August 13th Ed., 1846
- ^ Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East. June 2nd Ed., 1847
- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
- ^ Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East. September 20th Ed., 1850
- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
- ^ New York Evening Post – U.S. Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 “October 26th 1869, Church of the Holy Communion, by the Rev. F.E. Lawrence, Wentworth Huyshe son of Maj. Gen. Alfred to Gertrude Verplank, only daughter of the late William C. Uhlhorn.”
- ^ PRO Kew ref: Court of Matrimonial Causes/J77/Ref no. J77/340/224
- ^ : St. Peter’s, Cranley Gardens, West London Births1867-1906
- ^ Old Brompton Cemetery 5 May 1880 10 Oct 1880. \grave no. 102605
- ^ GRO Marriages Ref: 1887 (Jan-Feb-Mar) Epping. Vol 4a Page 199 Wentworth Huyshe/Hester Hart