Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscountess Galway
Honorific Suffix:DStJ
Birth Name:Vere Gosling
Birth Date:1859
Birth Place:Godalming, Waverly
Surrey, England
Death Date:3 January 1921
Spouse:George Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway
Children:Violet Frances Monckton
George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway
Father:Ellis Gosling
Mother:Emma Susan Duncombe

Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway (née Gosling DStJ; 1859 - 3 January 1921) was a British poet, writer, philanthropist, and woman of letters. In 1910, she co-founded an auxiliary hospital at her home, Serlby Hall, with her husband. She was invested as a Lady of Justice of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

Biography

Lady Galway was born Vere Gosling in 1859 in Godalming, Surrey, the only daughter of Emma Susan Duncombe and Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall.[1]

On 24 July 1879, she married George Edward Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway.[2] She and her husband founded a military hospital at their home, Serlby Hall, in 1910. The hospital functioned as an auxiliary hospital under Surgeon General Ford of York during World War I. The hospital was run and expenses covered by Lord and Lady Galway.[3]

Lord and Lady Galway had two children, The Honourable Violet Frances Monckton and George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway.[4]

Lady Galway was appointed a Lady of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.[5]

Lady Galway wrote The Art of Conserving in 1905 and The Programme of King Harry's Revel Held at Serlby in August 1908.[6] [7] [8] She also wrote poetry. A book of her poetry, The Creed of Love and Other Poems, was published in 1922, after her death.[9] After her death, a collection of her letters was also published. The collection includes letters to her husband; her son; her brother, Ellis D. Gosling; Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough; Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Countess Eleanore zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn; and Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace.[10]

She died on 3 January 1921.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Viscountess Galway | Antique Diamond Necklace Tiara Diadem Bandeau| Famous Important Jewels HistoryAntique Diamond Necklace | Vivien Leigh | Famous Important Jewels History. royal-magazin.de.
  2. Web site: Biography of George E. M. Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway . nottingham.ac.uk . https://archive.today/20071110074903/http://nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/family-estate/collections/galway/7th-viscount-galway.phtml . 10 November 2007.
  3. Web site: Vere Gosling (Viscountess Galway) and Serlby Hall Hospital – Doncaster 1914-18. www.doncaster1914-18.org.uk.
  4. Web site: Correspondence from Vere Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscountess Galway (d 1921) to her son George Vere Monckton Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway | The National Archives . Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . 2020-02-08.
  5. Web site: Person Page. www.thepeerage.com.
  6. Web site: The Programme of King Harry's Revel Held at Serlby, August 1908 .. Vere MONCKTON-ARUNDELL (Viscountess. Galway.). February 8, 1908. Google Books.
  7. Web site: The Art of Conserving. Viscountess Vere Monckton-Arundell. Galway. February 8, 1905. John & Ed. Bumpus. Google Books.
  8. Web site: The art of conserving. Wellcome Collection.
  9. Web site: The Creed of Love and Other Poems. Viscountess Vere Monckton-Arundell. Galway. February 8, 1922. privately printed by Messrs. Hatchard. Google Books.
  10. Web site: Correspondence and Papers of Vere Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscountess Galway (d 1931). National Archive of the UK.