# Social Victorians/People/Lister-Kaye
## Also Known As

* Family name: Lister-Kaye
* Baronet Lister-Kaye of Grange
** Sir John Pepys Lister-Kaye, 3rd Baronet (13 April 1871 – 27 May 1924)

## Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies
### Friends
#### John Lister-Kaye

* Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

## Organizations
### John Lister-Kaye

* Royal Horse Guards
* Yorkshire Hussars
* Groom-in-Waiting to King Edward VII (4 June 1908 — 10 June 1910)

## Timeline

1876 May 22, Consuelo Iznaga y Clement and George Victor Drogo Montagu married in Grace Church, New York City. Emilia Yznaga moved to England with Consuelo.
1881 December 5, John Lister-Kaye and Natica (Maria de la Natividad) Yznaga married in New York City.
1897 July 2, Friday, Sir John and Lady Natica Lister-Kaye attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. (He is 97 in the list of attendees; she is 499.)

## Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
### Lady Natica Lister-Kaye

At the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 fancy-dress ball, Lady Natica Lister-Kaye was dressed as the Duchess de Guise.$^{:p.12,Col.4c}$
Lafayette's portrait (right) of "Natica (née Yznaga), Lady Lister-Kaye as the Duchesse de Guise in the time of Henri III" in costume is photogravure #4 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lady Lister Kaye as the Duchesse de Guise in the time of Henri III," with a Long S in Duchesse.
Even though Lafayette was the photographer for Lady Lister-Kaye in costume, no poses of her are available in the Lafayette Archives.

#### The Historical Catherine de Cleves, Duchess de Guise

Catherine de Cleves (1548 – 1633) was Duchess de Guise during the reign of Henri III (1574–1589). She was Duchesse de Guise from 1570 to 1588. The portrait of Catherine de Cleves (left) does not look like the original of Natica Lister-Kaye's costume; none of the available portraits does. Lady Natica Lister-Kaye is 38 years old in her portrait. The portrait of Catherine de Cleves was painted in the 16th or 17th century, so it is not possible to calculate her age in this portrait.

#### Commentary on Lady Natica Lister-Kaye's Costume

Lady Lister-Kaye's dress looks a lot more Victorian than 17th century, especially the general line of the dress and the waistline. The difference arises from the Victorian corset, because the Elizabethan corset would have been flat in front; the tighter lacing that Victorians were able to achieve depended on the metal grommets in the laces' holes, which prevented the fabric from tearing.
* Lady Lister-Kaye appears to be holding a folding fan.
* Attempts at an Elizabethan look can be seen in the pearl necklace, the collar, and those sleeves.

### Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart.

Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart. was dressed as "Sir Kaye" or "Sir Kay," knight of the Round Table. He was 44 years old at the time of the ball.
Henry Van der Weyde's portrait of "Sir John Pepys Lister-Kaye, 3rd Bt as Sir Kaye Morte d'Arthur" in costume is photogravure #123 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Sir John Kaye as Sir Kaye Morte d'Arthur."
Even though Lafayette was the photographer for Sir Lister-Kaye in costume, no poses of him are available in the Lafayette Archives.
The Times lists Sir Lister-Kaye as a part of the procession of Queen Guinevere and the Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur,$^{:p.12,Col.1c}$ for which Arthur Hugh Grosvenor is listed King Arthur, but no other newspaper does.
Truth says the knights, of which he was one

#### King Arthur

The 19th century saw a revival of the Arthurian myth. Thomas Mallory's 15th-century retelling of earlier Arthurian stories, Morte d'Arthur, was known and reprinted frequently in the 19th century. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1859–1885) is a narrative cycle of blank-verse poems about the ideals and court of King Arthur. The last Idyll in the cycle is "Le Morte d'Arthur," or "The Passing of Arthur." J. M. Dent published an edition of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur with Aubrey Beardsley's distinctive and important illustrations in 1893, although he does not seem to have drawn Sir Kay. Edward Burne-Jones's 1894 The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon was followed in 1898 with a painting also called The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, painted 1881–1898, with 17 mourners plus the recumbent Arthur, likely the same painting further worked. Burne-Jones worked in a style associated with the pre-Raphaelites.

#### Newspaper Reports of Sir Lister-Kaye's Costume

* "'Sir Kay' in the Arthurian legend."$^{:p.5,Col.7c}$
* "'Sir Kaye,' in white tunic, embroidered gold, over an armour shirt, with jewelled belt and short knife, drapery of blue and white brocade."$^{:p.8,Col.1c}$
* "Sir Lister-Kaye ("Sir Kaye”), white tunic, embroidered in gold; armour shirt; jewelled belt, short knife; blue and white brocade drapery."$^{:p.36,Col.3b}$

#### Commentary on Sir Lister-Kaye's Costume

* Sir Lister-Kaye's collar and mustache are very 19th century in style.
* He appears to be wearing a wig.
* The way his cloak is attached looks like it would drag the neck of his tunic up against his throat, so either he spent the evening adjusting his tunic, or perhaps he was able to take the cloak off.
* The boots do not have a historical precedent as far as we know; they're a fantasy of what Sir Kaye in 1897 might have worn as an Arthurian knight. Are they influenced by American cowboy boot design? Are they made of leather worked to go with the design on the tunic? If it's leather, then it must be very soft leather because of the wrinkling around the ankles; if it's fabric, how are they staying up? They look tight on the feet and calves.

## Demographics

* Nationality: he, British; she, Cuban American

### Residences

* Denby Grange

## Family

* Sir John Pepys Lister-Kaye, 3rd Baronet (18 February 1853 – 27 May 1924)
* Natica (Maria) de la Natividad Yznaga Lister-Kaye (2 May 1859 – 13 February 1943)
* John Digby Lister-Kaye (15 September 1882 – Oct 1882)

### Relations

* Natica (Maria) Yznaga Lister-Kaye, Consuelo Iznaga, Duchess of Manchester, and Emilie Yznaga were sisters, daughters of Antonio Modesto Yznaga del Valle and Ellen Maria Clement.

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Sir John Pepys Lister-Kaye, 3rd Bt." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Sir John Lister-Kaye, 3rd Baronet". Wikipedia. 2020-08-23. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Lister-Kaye,_3rd_Baronet&oldid=974436537. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Lister-Kaye,_3rd_Baronet.
* ↑ "George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester". Wikipedia. 2020-08-24. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Montagu,_8th_Duke_of_Manchester&oldid=974659520.
* 1 2 "Maria de la Natividad Yznaga." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
* 1 2 "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12, Cols. 1a–4c The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
* 1 2 "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
* ↑ "Natica (née Yznaga), Lady Lister-Kaye." Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball Album. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw156509/Natica-ne-Yznaga-Lady-Lister-Kaye-as-the-Duchesse-de-Guise-in-the-time-of-Henri-III.
* 1 2 "Catherine of Cleves". Wikipedia. 2021-04-11. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catherine_of_Cleves&oldid=1017214092. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Cleves.
* ↑ "Henry III of France". Wikipedia. 2021-11-25. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_III_of_France&oldid=1057043930. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_France.
* ↑ year, Unidentified painterlabel QS:Les,"Pintor no identificado"label QS:Lde,"Unbekannter Maler"label QS:Len,"Unidentified painter"label QS:Lit,"Pittore non identificato"label QS:Lfr,"Peintre non identifié" Description16th-century portrait painting of women, with Not identified, Unspecified, Unmentioned, UnknownUnknown or AnonymousUnknown author artist, and missing (1500–1700), Deutsch: Zeitgenössisches Porträt Katharinas von Kleve, Herzogin von Guise und Gräfin von EuEnglish: Portrait of Catherine of Cleves (1548-1633) Français: Portrait de Catherine de Clèves, duchesse de Guise et comtesse d'Eu, retrieved 2022-04-13 {{citation}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: date format (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* ↑ "Sir John Pepys Lister-Kaye." Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball Album. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158486/Sir-John-Pepys-Lister-Kaye-3rd-Bt-as-Sir-Kaye-Morte-dArthur.
* ↑ "Idylls of the King". Wikipedia. 2022-03-08. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Idylls_of_the_King&oldid=1076004577. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King.
* ↑ Mallory, Thomas. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte d'Arthur, with the Dolorous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All. 2 vols. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley; binding by Cedric Chivers. J. M. Dent, 1893. Retrieved September 2023. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Birth,_Life,_and_Acts_of_King_Arthur.png.
* ↑ Burne-Jones, Edward. The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon. 1894. Wikimedia Commons. Retrived September 2023. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burne-Jones_Last_Sleep_of_Arthur_in_Avalon_v1.jpg.
* ↑ "Duchess of Devonshire's Fancy Ball. A Brilliant Spectacle. Some of the Dresses." London Daily News Saturday 3 July 1897: 5 [of 10], Col. 6a–6, Col. 1b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000051/18970703/024/0005 and https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000051/18970703/024/0006.
* ↑ "Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House." Morning Post Saturday 3 July 1897: 7 [of 12], Col. 4a–8 Col. 2b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970703/054/0007.
* ↑ “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.
* ↑ "Antonio Modesto Yznaga del Valle." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-10-20.