Record

Performance TitlePrimrose League Grand Habitation
Performance Date7 May 1902
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersLady Dimsdale,
Lord Howe,
Lord Elcho,
Mr Guy Pym MP,
Sir Robert Penrose-FitzGerald MP,
Lord Salisbury - speakers
Secondary PerformersMadame Albani - vocal,
Mr H L Balfour - organ
Set ListOrgan Recital:
'Cornelius March', Mendelssohn (Mr H L Balfour),
Champion Banner Procession,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) (Madame Albani, Audience),
Presentation of Certificates to Champion Banner (Lady Dimsdale),
Statesment (Lord Howe),
Address (Lord Salisbury),
Resolution - 'That this meeting, in Grand Habitation assembled, records its satisfaction at the over-increasing development of Imperial sentiment, and expressses its belief that the maintenance of the principles of the Primrose League is essential to the wellbeing of all who own allegiance to the King' (Lord Elcho),
Resolution Seconded (Sir Robert Penrose-FitzGerald MP),
Vote of Thanks (Lord Harris, Mr Guy Pym MP),
Thanks (Lord Salisbury)
Performance NotesGuests on the stage were the uke of Marlborough, Lord Elcho, Lord Poltimore, Lord Harris, Lord Powis, Lord Egerton of Tatton, Lord and Lady Jersey, Lord and Lady Bathurst, Sir Howard Vincent MP, Mr Loder MP, Sir F D Dixon-Hartland MP, Colonel H F Bowles MP, COlonel Boyds MP, Mr W Hayes Fisher MP, Sir R U Penrose-FitzGerlad MP, Hon. R Greville MP, Sir E Vincent MP, Mr Guy Pym MP, Sir F Milner MP, Mr Evelyn Cecil MP, Mr Ian Malcolm MP, Colonel Wyndham Murray MP, Sir Charles Dalrymple MP, Mr E F G Hatch MP, Colonel Lucas MP, Hon. Schomberg McDormell, Mr Lane-Fox, Lady Gwendolen Cecil, Lady Maud Wilbraham, Lady Dorothy Nevill, Lady Romney, Lady Mayoress Lady Ancaster, Ladies Willoughby, Lady Hardman, Lady Margaret Villiers, Miss Balfour, Mrs Bischoffsheim, Lady Knightley of Rawsley, Dowager Countess of Mayo, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, Mrs George Cornwallis-West, Mme. Albani, Lady Mary Cooke, Lady Milner, Georgina Countess of Guilford, Lady Doxford, Lady Stratheden and Campbell, Lady Steward of Grantully, Lady Eva Wydham-Quin, Lady Tenterden, Lady Fletcher, Lady Craik.

Champion banners were Cheltenham Habitation, Hastings and St. Leonards Habitation, Waterloo, and Beaconsfield Habitation.

Lord Salisbury's address touched upon Eygpt and Ireland; the War; the Settlement; Imperial Federation; and New Political Conditions.
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10849Primrose League Grand Habitation1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1614Balfour; H L (28 October 1859-27 December 1946); British organist and teacher
DS/UK/174Primrose League; 1883-2004; British organisation for spreading Conservative principles in UK
DS/UK/13021Cecil KG; Lord; Robert Arthur James Gascoyne- (1893-1972); 5th Marquess of Salisbury; British Conservative politician
DS/UK/3848Albani; Dame; Emma (1 November 1847-3 April 1930); DBE; Canadian-British operatic soprano
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