Rugby, 57, 214
Russell, George, 10th Duke of Bedford, 64
Russell, Herbrand, 11th Duke of Bedford, 63–4
Russell (née Tribe), Mary see Tribe (later Russell), Mary du Caurroy
Russia, 119
Rutledge, Helen, 99
Ruttu, 280
St George’s, Ascot, 297
St Helena, 18n
St John, Mrs, 221
St Pancras, 17, 18
St Thomas’s Mount, Madras, 102
Salvation Army hospital, Ahmednagar, 271
Sanderson, George, 176–7, 178, 179
Sandhurst, 214, 293
Sandys-Lumsden, Rosemary, 145–6, 147
sanitary towels, 86
Sassoon, Victor, 194
Saturday Club, Calcutta, 93
Sauga, 239 and n, 257–8
Saumerez Smith, William, 59–60, 61
Savoy Hotel, London, 42
scarlatina, 23
scarlet fever, 241, 242
schools, 15, 34, 56–7 see also names of schools
scorpions, 90, 281
Scott, Basil, 134
Scott, Beatrix, 282
Scroggie (later Hingston), Gladys see Hingston (née Scroggie), Gladys (Glad; Sheila Hingston’s mother)
Scroggie, Willie, 294
Searle, Miss, 243
seasickness, 18, 20, 23, 30, 31, 33
sea voyages see voyages
Second World War (1939–45), 276, 303–4
Secunderabad, 43, 93, 204, 219, 220, 221, 226, 239, 259, 260
Secunderabad Brigade, 210
Seeonee jungle, 271, 276
Sellon, Captain Edward, 150, 167
Seret, Mademoiselle, 163
servants, 132–3, 261–4
sex: and moral climate, 140–1; sexual deprivation, 60, 61, 65; women and, 14–15, 42, 140–1, 228–9; see also prostitutes
Shaftesbury, Lord, 131–2
Shillingford, Enid, 52–3
shipboard romances, 44–54
shooting, 66, 267–8, 273, 374: tigers, 66, 160–1 and n, 177–81, 206–7
Shore, Sir John, 174–5
Sialkot, 66, 78–9, 241
Sibi, 221, 222–3
signing the Book, 96
Sikhs, 136–7
Siliguri, 193
Simla: courtship and wedding of Dorothy and Charles Arthur in, 182–3; Elisabeth Bruce in, 110–11, 111–12, 113, 115, 116–18, 121, 122–3, 129; life in, 185–93, 263; Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrated in, 117–18, 129–30; as summer capital of the government, 91,185–6, 187–8; brief references, 17, 41, 50, 63, 74, 85, 93, 150, 152, 173, 181, 265, 268, 270, 282, 308
Simon Artz store, 27–8, 85
Simpson, Wallis, 295
Sindh (Sind), 58, 69
Singh, Rajendar, Maharaja of Patiala, 164–5
Sitwell, Edith, 267
skin infections, 248
Skinner’s Horse, 62
Slater, Richard, 74
smallpox, 241, 298–9; vaccine, 30
Smith (later Butler), Ann see Butler (née Smith), Ann (Iris Butler’s mother)
Smith, Lieutenant Michael Edward, 9–10
snake charmers, 252–3
snakes, 81, 252–4
snobbishness, 302–3 see also precedence; status
Snowdon (Kitchener’s Simla residence), 191
social life, 94–107
Socotra, 45
Sonmarg, 91
South African War, 123, 128, 205
Southampton, 22
Southampton, 19–20
Southampton Water, 18, 20
Southern Army Command, 194
South Indian Parliament (known as Legislative Assembly), 305
Southlands School, Exmouth, 295
Spanish flu, 219, 245, 247, 278–9
spinsters, difficulties faced by, 11–13
sport, 66–7, 159, 237–8 see also names of sports
Sprees, the, 233–4
Srinagar, 91, 196, 198, 199–200, 242, 287
stabilisers, 31 and n
Stanley, Lady Beatrix, 104 and n
Stanley, Sir George, 104, 138
Stanley Clarke, Cecile, 53, 161–2, 169–70, 257, 258–9
Stanmore Estates, 297, 298, 304
Star of the South, 157
Statesman, The, 265
status, 97 see also precedence
Steele, Flora Annie, 304
Steele, Captain Gordon, 45–6
Steele, Lady, 17, 18
stinkbugs, 90
Stock, Thomas, 53
Stopes, Marie: Married Love, 15
storms at sea, 24–5, 30–1
Strefford, Lady, 44
Stuart, Major-General Charles ‘Hindoo’, 167
Subdivisional Officer/Assistant Magistrate, 59–60
Sudan, 18n
Suez, 21, 22
Suez Canal, 10, 18n, 22, 29
Sutherland Highlanders, 9
Swinhoe, Violet, 202
Taj Mahal, 100–1, 147
Tanmarg, 198
Taylor, Robert, 107
teaching, 11
tennis courts, 93
Tennyson, Lord: ‘Flowr in the Crannied Wall’, 121
tent-pegging, 102 and n
Terai, 206, 285
Thomas Cook, 51
tigers, 160, 270; shooting, 66, 160–1 and n, 177–81, 206–7
Tilbury, 17, 18, 38, 47, 149, 213
Times, The, 5, 120
Tisri, 277
Tiwana clan, 268
Tone, Franchot, 107
Toorak, Melbourne, 32
topis, 28 and n, 81–2, 85, 281
train journeys, 74–80, 193–4
Travancore, Maharani of, 97
Trevelyan, Humphrey, 77, 79n
Tribal Territories, 283
Tribe (later Russell), Mary du Caurroy, 63–4 and n
Tribe, Sophie, 63
Tribe, Rev. Walter, 63
Tribe, Zoe, 63
Trinity College, Cambridge, 116
Trinity College, Dublin, 47, 176
Trotter, Alexander, 174, 175
Trotter (later Vincent), Grace Minna, 173–84
Trotter, John, 174
Trotter, Mabel, 175, 176–7, 178, 180, 181
Trotter, William, 175
Trotter, William Henry, 175, 176
U-boats, 49 and n, 271; U-24, 49n; UB-43, 49
Umballa, 39, 147, 148, 193
underwear, 85–6
uniforms, 119–20; Imperial Cadet Corps, 126, 131, 134; Indian cavalry, 62; Knights of the Black Heart, 192; viceregal servants, 132
United Planters’ Association of Southern India, 299
United Provinces, 47, 48, 58n, 72, 76
United Services College, 15, 56
United States, 49n, 124
unmarried women, difficulties faced by, 11–13
up country, 278–91
Urdu, 106
vaccinations, 30
Valentino, Rudolph, 163
Van Ingen and Van Ingen taxidermy factory, 161
venereal disease, 67
Venice, 70
viceregal entertainments, 125–38
Viceregal Lodge, Simla, 63, 98, 118, 119, 129, 190–1, 268
Viceroy, 62–3, 188; Elisabeth Bruce’s life as daughter of, 108–24; see also viceregal entertainments; names of individual Viceroys
Viceroy of India, The, 26 and n, 146, 148, 149
Viceroy’s Ball, 87, 137
Viceroy’s Council, 134, 170, 181, 183
Viceroy’s House (by Lutyens), Delhi, 106, 134–5,136
Viceroy’s train, 77, 112
Victoria, Queen, 15, 35, 125, 129, 193; Diamond Jubilee, 117–18, 129–30
Vincent (later Arthur), Dorothy Grace, 181–3
Vincent (née Trotter), Grace Minna see Trotter (later Vincent), Grace Minna
Vincent, Isobel Wynn, 181
Vincent, William Henry Hoare, 176, 181, 182, 183
Virgil, 58
Vi
zianagram, 204, 254
voyages, 2, 4–6, 17–31, 33, 44–7, 50–4, 261, 308
WAAF, 214, 215
Wakefield, Edward, 58, 59, 83, 95–6, 97, 105, 250–2
Wakefield, Imogen, 252
Wakefield, Lalage, 250, 257
Walton, Charles, 198
Walton, Emmie, 198
Waring, Mike, 32, 65, 66
Warrant of Precedence, 81
Warren Hastings, 112, 113, 114–15
Washington, George, 34
water, filtering, 263
Week Queens, 106
Weeks, the, 106
Welch Regiment, 147
Welchman, Joan, 147–8
Welchman, Roger, 147, 148, 149
Welchman (née Pridmore Riley), Valerie see Pridmore Riley (later Welchman), Valerie
Welford, Katherine, 32–3, 94, 96, 99, 103–4, 107, 137–8, 162
Wellesley, Lord, 35
Wellington College, 56, 293
Western Australia, 33
Western Ghats, 194
Westward Ho!, 15, 56
West Yorkshire Regiment, 251
Wheler Club, 48
Whistler, Hugh, 82
White, Lady, 118
white ants (termites), 80, 81, 90, 257
Wilkes, Kathleen, 51–2
Williams, Major Arthur de Coetlogon, 224–5, 227–8
Williams (née Field), Bethea see Field (later Williams), Bethea
Williams, Major Sydney, 221, 223, 224
Willingdon, Lady, 137, 296
Willingdon, Lord, 137, 296
Wilmot, Eardley, 269
Wilson, Anne, 73, 93, 256–7, 261–2, 310, 311
Wilson, Lady, 185
Wiltshire Regiment, 280, 293
Winchester, 228
Windsor, 217
Wingfield, Lilah, 24–5, 26, 27, 44–5, 77, 83–4, 105, 130–1, 141, 142, 245
winter/cold weather season, 87
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 14
Wood, Archie, 19
Wood (née Blane), Minnie, 19, 20, 73, 139–40
Wood, Major, 62
Wright, Maisie, 25–6, 29
Wuthering Heights, 208
Yeats-Brown, Francis, 61
York and Lancaster Regiment, 39, 243
Yorktown, 34
zenana, 169–70, 172
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* Four Indiamen were lost in a gale off Mauritius in 1809; in 1840 the Lord W Bentinck sank in a storm just off Bombay with the loss of eighty troops and all the women and children passengers, crowds watching from the shore as boats struggled unavailingly to reach her; six hours later another ship was lost in the same way.
* About £13,000 today.
* Caroline of Brunswick had married the future George IV in 1795. Nine months later their daughter Princess Charlotte was born and shortly afterwards they separated. In 1814 Caroline left England and moved to Italy, where she employed Bartolomeo Pergami as a servant. Soon he was her closest companion, and it was widely assumed that they were lovers. In 1820 George became King and Caroline returned to Britain to assert her position as Queen. She became the figurehead of a popular reform movement that opposed the unpopular George. George attempted to divorce her by introducing the Pains and Penalties Bill to Parliament, but George and the bill were so unpopular, and Caroline so popular, with the masses that it was withdrawn. In July 1821 Caroline fell ill after she was barred from the coronation on the orders of her husband. She died three weeks later.
* Another brother, Nevil, became the Astronomer Royal.
* Quoted by Francesca Beauman in Shapely Ankle Preferr’d.
* The Matrimonial Record, launched in 1882, the Matrimonial Herald and Aristocratic Matrimonial and Marriage Envoy in 1884, Marriage Advertiser 1886 and Cupid’s Cosmopolitan Carrier 1888. Ibid.
* As late as 1876, the examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons resigned en masse rather than examine three women for diplomas in midwifery.
* The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age and Advanced Life, Considered in the Physiological, Social and Moral Relations discussed women only twice, dismissively.
* In Chapter Seven of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in 1792.
* For example, the British were keen to take control of the Cape Colony from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars to secure the main sea route to India; for the same reason the islands of St Helena and Mauritius and the coastline of Aden were added. Likewise, soon after the opening of the Suez Canal the British bought a controlling interest in it, to be followed by control of Egypt; with Egypt, Sudan and Cyprus became part of the Empire.
* Compare this with the 80,000-plus tonnage of the Queen Mary, Britain’s premier liner between the wars.
* The Nubia was lost outside Colombo Harbour while waiting for a pilot in 1915.
* Sunk by a mine two miles off Dover in February 1916.
* Lightweight pith helmets, considered essential to avoid sunstroke.
* Remembered by Assistant Purser Ashley Randall, who joined the Caledonia in 1907.
* Known as the ICS, this was the body of civil servants who administered British rule in India.
* The ICS, the most desirable men in the marriage stakes, were often compared
to Brahmins who, at the top of India’s caste system, were known as the ‘heaven-born’.
* A drink supposed to settle the stomach.
* The first stabilisers were introduced during the early part of the twentieth century, but it was not until the 1930s that a much more effective type was invented.
* Joseph Dupleix was appointed Governor-General of all French establishments in India in 1742.
* Lord Liverpool, British Prime Minister 1812–27, had an Indian grandmother.
* The Act of 1793 that renewed the Company’s charter expressly stated this.
* Now known as the Taj Garden Retreat.
* She was the younger sister of the politician ‘Rab’ Butler.
* A type of clarified butter, used like cooking oil.
* The equivalent of a commode, emptied by sweepers.
* Sunk in the 1914–18 war.
* Dulcie later married in England, but not very happily.
* Until the Second World War there were only 600 places a year for women in Oxford and Cambridge and about 300 in London; most of the few provincial universities did not take women.
* From The Illustrated Weekly of India.
* This was so resented by the P&O officers as a body that in late 1913 they chose to hold up one ship, the Arcadia, for three days as a sign of their discontent. Very wisely, the Company withdrew their prohibition.
* ‘Sahib’ was a form of respectful address for a European man in India. With the addition of ‘mem’ – a corruption of ‘ma’am’ – it was applied to their wives.
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