On 12th July 1829 Edwin Longsden Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, from Kelston in Somerset.
1850. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 20]. "Harriet Margaret Maxwell Viscountess Bangor [aged 44]".
Harriet Margaret Maxwell Viscountess Bangor: On 11th February 1805 she was born to Reverend Henry Maxwell 6th Baron Farnham and Anne Butler. On 14th February 1826 Edward Ward 3rd Viscount Bangor and she were married. On 4th July 1880 she died.
In 1853 Edwin Longsden Long [aged 23] and Margaret Jemima Aiton [aged 20] were married at the British Consulate in Rome. She the daughter of naval surgeon William Aiton.
1866. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 36]. "On the Road, Granada".
1873-1877. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 43]. "A Dorcas Meeting in the 6th Century".
1873. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 43]. "The Moorish Proselytes of Archbishop Ximenes, Granada".
1875. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 45]. "The Babylonian Marriage Market".
1879. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 49]. "Vashti Refuses the King's Summons".
1881. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 51]. "Thisbe".
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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1884. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 54]. "Elizabeth Beatrice Fuller-Eliott-Drake [aged 21]".
Elizabeth Beatrice Fuller-Eliott-Drake: On 7th July 1862 she was born to Francis George Augustus Fuller-Eliott-Drake 2nd Baronet. On 22nd June 1887 John Eliott-Drake-Colborne 3rd Baron Seaton and she were married. On 9th May 1937 she died.
1885. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 55]. "Mary Dickinson Viscountess Clifden".
Mary Dickinson Viscountess Clifden: she was born to Francis Henry Dickinson and Caroline Carey. Coefficient of inbreeding 6.25%. In 1878 Thomas Agar-Robartes 6th Viscount Clifden and she were married. They had ten children, of whom one died in infancy. On 10th September 1899 Leopold George Agar-Ellis 5th Viscount Clifden died. His half second cousin Thomas succeeded 6th Viscount Clifden of Gowran in County Kilkenny, 6th Baron Mendip of Mendip in Somerset. Baron Dover extinct. She by marriage Viscountess Clifden of Gowran in County Kilkenny. In January 1921 she died.
1886. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 56]. "The Discovery of Moses".
1887. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 57]. "The Daughters of Our Empire. England: The Primrose".
1887. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 57]. "The Palace Guard".
1887. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 57]. "Queen Esther".
Before 1891. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 61]. "The Chosen Five".
Before 1891. Edwin Longsden Long [aged 61]. "Francis Leveson Gower aka Egerton 1st Earl Ellesmere".
On 15th May 1891 Edwin Longsden Long [aged 61] died of pneumonia resulting from influenza at his home, "Kelston" in Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead. He was buried in West Hampstead Cemetery. His will, signed on the day of his death, was the subject of a lawsuit, to which his relatives were parties, but the matter in dispute was amicably settled.
On 27th January 1907 [his former wife] Margaret Jemima Aiton [aged 74] died.