page_title: Langtry Manor
section_title: Emily Langton Langton and the Red House 1877–1887
hierarchical_section_title: Langtry Manor / Emily Langton Langton and the Red House 1877–1887
caption_attribution_description: English: Emily Langton Langton, née Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd 1847-1897 of Gunby Hall,spouse of her second-cousin, Edmund Langton.by Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848–1925)
context_page_description: The Langtry Manor is a country house hotel at 26 Derby Road in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth, England. The foundation stone is inscribed "E.L.L. 1877". A residence for 60 years, it was originally known as the "Red House", and after 1937 the "Manor Heath Hotel", before being renamed the Langtry Manor in the late 1970s.
  Originally built and owned by widowed women's rights campaigner and temperance activist Emily Langton Langton, after her death the house was sold. In 1938 a new set of owners converted it into a hotel, "Manor Heath Hotel", which advertised it as having been built originally for Lillie Langtry by the Prince of Wales. However, despite the hotel's claims and local legend, no actual association between Langtry and the house ever existed.
context_section_description: Emily Langton Langton (1847–1897) was born Emily Langton Massingberd, the eldest daughter of Charles Langton Massingberd of Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire. In 1867 she married her second cousin, Edmund Langton. The couple lived principally in Bournemouth. Edmund died, aged 34, in November 1875, at his father's home of Eastwood, East Cliffe Road, Bournemouth. 
  The widowed Emily Langton Langton was left with a son and three daughters. She turned to temperance work with the British Women's Temperance Association, and in 1877 built the Red House at the junction of Knyveton Road and Derby Road, Bournemouth, including a large assembly room for her meetings. The foundation stone of the home is inscribed "E.L.L. 1877". The interior of the house sports one of her mottos, "They say – what say they? Let them say", which she also emblazoned in the progressive women's club, the Pioneer Club, which she founded in 1892 in London.
  A portrait of Emily painted by Theodore Blake Wirgman in 1878 shows her with a violin, and in December 1880 she was one of the instrumentalists for the Congregational Band of Hope in the Richmond Hill Congregational School-room, Bournemouth. In January 1881 she held a notable fancy dress dance "at the Assembly Room of the Red House, Bournemouth". In September 1882 she held a "fashionable concert" at the Red House in aid of funds for the Bournemouth Dispensary. 
  Emily was not always at the Red House, and at the time of the 1881 Census in April she was staying in Kensington and the Red House had been let to John Edward Cooke, late of the Royal Navy, and his wife and young family. In 1882 the Red House was let to a Mr and Mrs Holdsworth. 
  Emily made her first speech in favour of women's suffrage at Westminster Town Hall in 1882. On 15 December 1883, Laura Ormiston Grant and Caroline Biggs held a suffrage meeting "at the home of Mrs Langton (The Red House, Derby Road)". Emily Langton is listed at the Red House in Snow's Directory and Strangers' Guide to Bournemouth for 1883/1884, and in Kelly's Directory of Hampshire for 1885.
  Emily Langton Langton's father died in 1887 and she succeeded to his Gunby Hall estate in Lincolnshire. That year she resumed her maiden name of Massingberd  by royal licence, describing herself as "of The Red House, Bournemouth, and of Gunby Hall, Lincoln, widow". For four years she managed the Gunby Hall estate herself, and then moved to London in 1991, and the Red House saw little of her when the house was often let to others.
caption: Emily Langton Langton, 1878
  by Theodore Blake Wirgman
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