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Langtry Manor
The Langtry Manor (formerly The Red House) is a country house hotel at 26 Derby Road in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth, England. It was formerly in the parish of Christchurch but is now in the Borough of Bournemouth. There is a strong and developed local tradition that The Red House was built by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) in 1877 for his mistress Lillie Langtry (1853-1929) but contemporary evidence shows that the house was in fact built by her contemporary Emily Langton Langton (born Emily Langton Massingberd) (1847-1897), a prominent women’s rights campaigner and temperance activist.〔Clement, Mark. "Massingberd, Emily Caroline Langton (1847-1897). ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press, 2007.〕 It had no connection with the Prince or his mistress.〔Ridley, Jane, ''Bertie: a life of Edward VII'' (2012)206.〕
==Emily Langton and The Red House 1877-87==
Emily Langton Langton was born Emily Langton Massingberd, the eldest daughter of Charles Langton Massingberd, of Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire. She married in 1867 her second cousin Edmund Langton.〔''Burke’s Landed Gentry'', iii (1972) sub ‘Langton of Langton’ and ‘Montgomery-Massingberd of Gunby’〕 The couple lived principally in Bournemouth,〔A daughter was born at Little Forest House, Bournemouth, in 1871; ''Hampshire Telegraph'', 21 June 1871, page 2〕 but Edmund died, aged 34, in November 1875, at Eastwood, East Cliffe Road, Bournemouth (the home of his father Revd Charles Langton who was at that time married to a sister of Charles Robert Darwin the naturalist), leaving her with a son and three daughters. She turned then 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, adding a large assembly room for her meetings.
A portrait of Emily painted by John Collingham Moore (who died in 1880) 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.〔''Hampshire Telegraph'', 24 December 1880, page 8〕 In May 1880 she helped at a bazaar in Bournemouth Town Hall〔''Hampshire Telegraph'', 29 May 1880, page 7〕 and in January 1881 she held a notable fancy dress dance ‘at the Assembly Room of the Red House, Bournemouth’.〔''Hampshire Telegraph'', 15 January 1881, page 3〕 In September 1882 she held a ‘fashionable concert’ at the Red House in aid of funds for the Bournemouth Dispensary.〔''Hampshire Telegraph'', 16 September 1882, page 3〕 Emily was not always at the Red House and at the time of the Census (3 April) in 1881 she was staying in Kensington and the Red House had been let to John Edward Cooke, late of the Royal Navy, his wife Sarah Rosa (a daughter of Edward Mackenzie of Fawley Court, Surrey) and their young family.〔1881 Census: The National Archives, RG11/1194-32-55; ''Burke’s Landed Gentry'' (1882) sub Mackenzie of Fawley Court; ''Burke’s Landed Gentry of Great Britain: The Kingdom in Scotland'' (2001) sub Mackenzie of Farr〕 In 1882 the Red House was let to Mr and Mrs Holdsworth.〔James Brough, ''The prince and the Lily'' (1975) 259〕]. Emily made her first speech in favour of women’s suffrage at Westminster Town Hall in 1882 and on 15 December 1883, Laura Ormiston Grant and Caroline Biggs ‘held a drawing-room meeting at the home of Mrs Langton (The Red House, Derby Road)’.〔Elizabeth Crawford, ''The women’s suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland: a regional survey'' (2013)〕 Mrs Langton is listed at that address in Kelly’s Directory for Hampshire for 1885.
However, Emily’s father died in 1887 and she succeeded to the Gunby Hall estate in Lincolnshire. She resumed her maiden name of Massingberd by Royal Licence that year describing herself as ‘of The Red House, Bournemouth, and of Gunby Hall, Lincoln, widow’.〔''The Times'', 19 March 1887, quoted in W.P.W. Phillimore & E.A. Fry, ''An index to Changes of Name'' (1968) 219〕 For some years she managed the Gunby Hall estate herself and the Red House saw little of Emily Langton Massingberd when the house was often let to others.
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