#Evelyn Farquhar

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Evelyn Farquhar (1906) by John Lavery

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Lady Evelyn Farquhar, wife of Captain Francis Douglas Farquhar (d.1915), daughter of John Hely-Hutchinson, 5th Earl of Donoughmore. Oil on canvas 184 × 120.5 by Sir John Lavery (Irish), 1906.

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You prefer Sensuality.

You are her master, her King, and you control her. She is obedient, predictable, and a flatterer.

Love is not. She sees the truth in you, and for that, she scares you. She is the wind that cannot be tamed, the sunlight that cannot be touched. She is unforgiving for those not giving, but a sanctuary for whoever comes sincerely.

How foolish of a man—he who preferred a hand over a heart.

How are you obsessed with an apple, temporary temptations, than the Tree who perpetually gives it?

Sensuality is only Love’s hands, her chest; not Love’s touch, her heart.

It is a wonder. You had only been begging from Love’s hand, her sensuality. How are you satisfied?

And, why refuse—Love and her heart? 

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Painting detail by Sir John Lavery, Lady Evelyn Farquhar.

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 29th May 1923

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Tuesday 29th May

Dined with Lady Ornamore and Browne.¹ She is supposed to be raving but I thought her and her dinner merely a trifle ‘Pont Street’!² I was between Lady Hermione Herbert³ and Lady Mildred FitzGerald.⁴ . . . . I fled to the Embassy Club⁵ to join Paul of Serbia et alii. He and the P of Wales have been great friends all this spring and telephone constantly. The P’s car is fitted up with an electric automatic cocktail mixer. He and Paul take Mrs Dudley Ward⁶ to dine and dance at the Embassy Club. When she refuses I see him dining sadly at Buck’s Club in a blue dinner jacket with his éminence grise, the irresistible Fruity Metcalfe.⁷ Will he be the Lord Farquhar⁸ of the next reign?

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1. Olwen Verena Ponsonby (1876-1927), daughter of the 8th Earl of Bessborough, married in 1901 Geoffrey Henry Browne-Guthrie (1861-1927), 3rd Lord Ornamore and Browne and 1st Baron Mereworth.

2. Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited (1945), uses the term to indicate slightly ‘common’ behaviour by members of the upper classes; Lady Julia Flyte regards it as ‘Pont Street’ to wear a signet ring.

3. Lady Hermione Gwladys Herbert (1900-95), daughter of the 4th Earl of Powis, married in 1924 Roberto Lucchesi-Palli, 11th Duca della Grazia (1897-1979).

4. Lady Mildred Murray (1878-1969), daughter of the 7th Earl of Dunmore, married in 1919 Sir John FitzGerald Bt, MC (1884-1957), 21st Knight of Kerry.

5. Then the most exclusive nightclub in London, in Bond Street, patronised by royalty, the aristocracy and stage stars.

6. Winifred May ‘Freda’ Birkin (1895-1983), married in 1913 William Dudley Ward MP; she was mistress of the Prince of Wales from 1918 until supplanted by Mrs Simpson in 1934.

7. See entry for 14th April 1923 and footnote.

8. Horace Brand Farquhar (1844-1923), financier, had been Master of the Household to Edward VII and Steward of the Household to George V until 1922. For services rendered to both monarchs he was created a baron in 1901, advanced to a viscountcy in 1917 and an earldom in 1922. After his death he was revealed to be bankrupt. Metcalfe might well have performed similar services to Edward VIII as monarch had the King survived more than ten and a half months.

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Evelyn Farquhar, 1906, by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941)

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Evelyn Farquhar, Wife of Captain Francis Douglas Farquhar (Detail), John Lavery, 1906

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LADY EVELYN FARQUHAR, 1906. JOHN LAVERY. Oil on canvas

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Portrait lady Evelyn Farquhar by John Lavery 1907

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Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) - Lady Evelyn Farquhar

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1906.

72.5 x 47.5 inches, 184 x 120.5 cm. Estimate: £600,000-800,000.

Failed to sell Sotheby’s, London, 9 Sept 2020.

Lady Evelyn Farquhar (née Hely-Hutchinson) was Lady-in-Waiting to the Countess of Connaught, wife of Prince Arthur, third son of Queen Victoria. The painting was commissioned by her new husband Captain Francis Douglas Farquhar, an officer in the Coldstream Guards.

At the outbreak of war, the now Lieutenant-Colonel Farquhar was Military Secretary to the Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada. A regiment was raised under the patronage of the Duke’s daughter, Patricia, and Farquhar was appointed the commanding officer of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. He was killed 20 March 1915 and is buried in Voormezeele Enclosure No.3 cemetery, near Ieper (Ypres), Belgium.

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Evelyn Farquhar, Wife of Captain Francis Douglas Farquhar, 1906

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John Lavery (1856-1941) Lady Evelyn Farquhar (184 by 120.5 cm)

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John Lavery, Evelyn Farquhar, 1906, oil on canvas.

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Read in 2018 Masterpost

Italics = 7-8 out of 10; Bold = 9-10 out of 10; Struck = unreviewed

Fantasy

Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire Phantom Pains - Mishell Baker Malice of Crows - Lila Bowen The Furthest Station - Ben Aaronovitch Tricks for Free - Seanan McGuire All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault - James Alan Gardner Olympus Bound - Jordanna Max Brodsky The Silenced Tale - J.M. Frey Strange Practice - Vivian Shaw How The Marquis Got His Coat Back - Neil Gaiman Sparrow Hill Road - Seanan McGuire Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik Stray Souls - Kate Griffin Dreadful Company - Vivian Shaw Night and Silence - Seanan McGuire Between Two Thorns - Emma Newman

DNF Keeping it Real - Justina Robson DNF A Spoonful of Magic - Irene Radford DNF Kill the Farm Boy - Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

Reread: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Night Watch, Wee Free Men, Monstrous Regiment, Hat Full of Sky, Going Postal, Thud! (Terry Pratchett)

Finished a reread: Smoke and Ashes (Tanya Huff)

Science Fiction

Cibola Burn - James S.A. Corey Artemis - Andy Weir Barbary Station - R.E. Stearns Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke Nemesis Games - James S.A. Corey Vengeful - V.E. Schwab

DNF The Amateurs - Liz Harmer DNF The Big Ship at the End of the Universe - Alex White

Alternate History

At the Table of Wolves - Kay Kenyon One of Us - Craig DiLouie Karen Memory - Elizabeth Bear

Graphic Novels

Saga, Vol. 8 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples Monstress, Vol. 1 - Marjorie Liu Moonstruck, Vol. 1 - Grace Ellis Rivers of London, Vol. 4 - Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London, Vol. 5 - Ben Aaronovitch Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4 - G. Willow Wilson Crosswind, Vol. 1 - Gail Simone

Mystery

The Con Artist - Fred van Lent Death by Dumpling - Vivien Chien The Mangle Street Murders - M.R.C. Kasasian Dim Sum of All Fears - Vivien Chien

DNF Cremains of the Day - Misty Simon DNF Twelve Angry Librarians - Miranda James DNF The Readaholics and the Gothic Gala - Laura DiSilverio DNF Of Books and Bagpipes - Paige Shelton

Young Adult

Tash Hearts Tolstoy - Kathryn Ormsbee Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann Dreadnought - April Daniels Ship It - Britta Lundin The Brightsiders - Jen Wilde Puddin’ - Julie Murphy The Supervillian and Me - Danielle Banas Fat Girl on a Plane - Kelly DeVos Pulp - Robin Talley The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee Geekerella - Ashley Poston I Was Born For This - Alice Oseman

DNF Kill the Boy Band - Goldy Moldavsky DNF Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe - Preston Norton

Middle Grade

La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman Aru Shah and the End of Time - Roshani Chokshi City of Ghosts - Victoria Schwab Better Nate Than Ever - Tim Federle The Chronicles of Faerie - O.R. Melling The Book of Dreams - O.R. Melling

Other Fiction

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome Mansfield Park - Jane Austen The Alice Network - Kate Quinn The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan The Children’s Book - A.S. Byatt Trickster Drift - Eden Robinson Dear Mrs. Bird - AJ Pearce London - Edward Rutherfurd The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith The Huntress - Kate Quinn

DNF Inferno - Dan Brown DNF The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Poetry

Killer Verse - Harold Schechter and Kurt Brown, ed Poems Dead and Undead - Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust, ed.

Non-Fiction

Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell Dead Wake - Erik Larson Bad Days in History - Michael Farquhar Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks NeuroTribes - Steve Silberman I’ll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara A Story as Sharp as a Knife - Robert Bringhurst The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - Steve Brusatte Born to Be Posthumous - Mark Dery Reread: The Science of Discworld II (Terry Pratchett)

DNF Deliver Us From Evil - Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool DNF Sons of Cain - Peter Vronsky

Other

Where’s My Cow? - Terry Pratchett

Stats

First Read: 77/76 Finished: 3 DNFs: 15 Rereads: 8

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Sir John Lavery - 1906 - Evelyn Farquhar, wife of Captain Francis Douglas Farquhar (d.1915), daughter of the John Hely-Hutchinson, 5th Earl of Donoughmore.

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Evelyn Farquhar, wife of Captain Francis Douglas Farquhar (d.1915), by John Lavery (Irish, 1856-1941).

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