Eva Carrington
Evelyn Victoria Ann Tate (née Chandler) (1887 – 1979)[1][2] known by her stage name Eva Carrington, was an actress, model and sometime peeress as the wife of the Baron de Clifford.[3]
Modelling career
[edit]Carrington was born Evelyn Chandler in London, the daughter of Anglo-Irish Walter Robert Chandler, a messenger and hall porter at the Walsingham House Hotel, Piccadilly, sometime orderly room clerk to Colonel Fred Burnaby. Her mother, Louisa, was a theatre attendant. By 1891, the family were using "Carrington" as their surname.[1][4][5] Her sister, Gladys Winifred Carrington Chandler, married Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Christopher Humphrey Tancred (1888-1972), grandson of Sir Thomas Tancred, 7th Baronet, a philanthropist and early colonist of Canterbury, New Zealand; their son was the actor Anthony Tancred (1930-1995).[6]
Carrington was a model for the artist James Whistler between 1898 and 1902. She posed for a number of Whistler's paintings and drawings, including "A dancing woman in a pink robe, seen from the back",[7] "The Tambourine"[8] "Eva and Gladys Carrington seated on a sofa",[9] and "The Bead Stringers".[10][11][12]
Stage career
[edit]She became a renowned actress during the Edwardian period. A famous role was as one of the Gibson Girls in the British theatre performance of "The Catch of the Season"[13]
Marriages
[edit]Eva married Jack Southwell Russell, 25th Baron de Clifford, in February 1906. She adopted the title Lady de Clifford. This marriage, of a commoner and showgirl to a senior peer, created a scandal at the time.[13]
Following her first husband's death, she married Captain Arthur Roy Stock of Glenapp Castle, Ayrshire, in 1913; he died in 1915.[14] In 1922, Eva married George Vernon Tate, grandson of the founder of the Tate Gallery.[15]
She had several children, and the only son, the eldest child, Edward Southwell Russell, succeeded to the de Clifford barony.[3] A colour photographic portrait of her and her four daughters by Yevonde taken in 1932 is in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
References
[edit]- ^ a b The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed, vol. III, ed. G. E. Cokayne, et al, Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000, p. 301
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 1065
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1065. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ "Whistler Paintings :: Management - biography".
- ^ "Stage Beauty".
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 2265
- ^ "Welcome to the a Dancing Woman in a Pink Robe page". www.mr-whistlers-art.info. Archived from the original on 12 September 2004. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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- ^ "Welcome to the Key Figures C to D section". www.mr-whistlers-art.info. Archived from the original on 29 June 2004. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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- ^ a b "PEER WEDS A SHOW GIRL. - Lord De Clifford Bears One of the Oldest of English Titles. - Front Page". The New York Times. 17 February 1906. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV, ed. Peter W. Hammond, page 189
- ^ The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, Glasgow University, Whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk; accessed 27 February 2017.
External links
[edit]- New York Times article on the marriage to Baron de Clifford (subscription required)
- Biography of Edward Southwell Russell, everything2.com