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As the lover of Charles Hoare, she was a controversial figure in Victorian society of the 1880s and 1890s and was later the wife of C. B. Fry.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]Life with Hoare[edit]T. S. Mercury[edit]Married life[edit]Aftermath[edit]References[edit]Early life[edit]Sumner was born in Chelsea, Middlesex, on 12 July 1862,[1] the daughter of Arthur Holme Sumner, of Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Surrey, and his wife Georgina, into a family with notable and royal ancestors.[2][3] She was christened at East Clandon on 7 September 1862.[4]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Becoming known as a beauty, at the age of sixteen Sumner came out into society and fell in love with Charles Hoare, Senior Partner in the C. Hoare & Co private bank. Hoare was almost twice her age and was already married, with five children.[2]On the day of the Census of 3 April, 1881, Sumner is recorded as an eighteen-year old visitor in the household of Hoare and his wife Margaret in Cirencester.[5]Sumner\u2019s father responded to this romance by banishing her to live with his sister at Berkeley Castle, and when that failed to work he had her declared a ward of court.[2]Arthur Holme Sumner was heavily in debt, and Georgina Sumner demanded \u00a33,000 from Hoare and departed for Germany, with her daughter Beatrice and her brother-in-law \u201cFitz\u201d, Francis Berkeley, Lord FitzHardinge. However, unknown to her Fitz had himself borrowed money from Hoare and thereafter acted as a go-between for the forbidden lovers.[2] In 1883 Sumner\u2019s father rented out Hatchlands Park, in the hope of being able to live on the income from it, but he sold the property five years later.[3]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Life with Hoare[edit]In July 1883, Sumner arrived at the age of twenty-one and was no longer under the orders of the court. She immediately moved in with Hoare,[2] and their daughter Sybil was born on 23 June 1884.[6] In 1885 their relationship came under strain when the newspapers reported a case against Hoare for contempt of court brought by Sumner\u2019s uncle Colonel Kingscote, as her family had obtained evidence that the lovers had not obeyed an order of the court forbidding them any contact before Sumner came of age. At the hearing, the judge declined to commit Hoare to prison, but he was ordered to pay Kingscote\u2019s costs. The ensuing scandal ruined the reputations of all concerned, with Sumner\u2019s father retreating to Malta, her mother to Geneva, where she stayed for the rest of her life, and Colonel Kingscote resigning his seat in parliament[2] by being appointed as Commissioner of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues.T. S. Mercury[edit]In 1883, Sumner\u2019s younger brother Berkeley Holme Sumner (1872\u20131942) had joined the Royal Navy, and he eventually rose to the rank of Captain.[7]  HMS Gannet, dormitory of TS Mercury, in 1914In 1885, Hoare founded Training Ship Mercury, at Binstead on the Isle of Wight, as an educational charity aimed at training poor boys of good character for naval service, and Sumner and Hoare moved together to be near the ship.[8] The establishment was effectively under the control of Sumner from 1885 until her death in 1946, and the  boys were \u201chounded from morn to night\u201d. She subjected them to many hardships, including violent ceremonial floggings and forced boxing matches used as punishments.[9]Hoare was dismissed as senior partner of his bank in 1888,[10] and on 26 September 1890 Sumner gave birth to Hoare\u2019s son, Robin Hoare.[11] In 1892 Mercury, with Hoare as superintendent, moved to Hamble-le-Rice.[12]Hoare invited well-known sportsmen to visit the school, including the England cricketer C. B. Fry. Beatrice noted in her diary for that day “Charles Fry came to play cricket today. I like Fry”.[13]In June 1898, following Sumner’s marriage to Fry, Hoare retired to West Meon, leaving Sumner again in sole charge of Mercury.[14]Married life[edit]Sumner was ten years older than C. B. Fry,[15] who came into the marriage deep in debt, and she was very much the dominant partner. The Frys were quickly a well-known society \u201cpower couple\u201c[2] and had three children, including the cricketer Stephen Fry, born in 1900. For the first ten years, Fry worked as a journalist, and in December 1908 he was given the title of Captain Superintendent of Mercury.[16]Sumner was known for her \u201dfiery, strong-willed, aggressive\u201d personality and was later described as \u201ca cruel and domineering woman\u201d. Fry was reported to live in fear of her throughout their long marriage, as she made him \u201dthoroughly miserable\u201d, and he began to stay away from his wife as much as he could.[13]When Fry\u2019s friend Ranjitsinhji, ruler of Nawanagar, became one of India’s representatives at the newly formed League of Nations in 1921, he took Fry with him as his assistant.[17]The marriage had an impact on C. B. Fry’s mental health, and his daughter-in-law later commented: \u201cI should think anyone would have a breakdown, married to her”.[13]Mrs Fry died in 1946,[18] at the Royal South Hampshire and Southampton Hospital, leaving an estate valued at \u00a310,362, equivalent to \u00a3457,269 in 2021, and probate was granted in September to her elder son Keith Robin Hoare, Commander RNVR.[19]Aftermath[edit]After a marriage lasting forty-eight years, C. B. Fry adjusted to his wife\u2019s death \u201cwith great equanimity\u201d. Her middle-aged children showed \u201call the freedom of the newly liberated\u201d.[13][9]^ \u201cSUMNER Beatrice\u201d in Register of Births for Chelsea Registration District, vol. 1a (1862), p. 194^ a b c d e f g The scandalous Beatie Sumner at Hatchlands Park at National Trust web site, accessed 21 February 2020^ a b The Sumner family at Hatchlands Park at National Trust web site^  Beatrice Holme Sumner in England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 at ancestry.com, accessed 21 February 2020 (subscription site)^ 1881 United Kingdom census for 16, Cicely Hill, Cirencester, at ancestry.com, accessed 21 February 2020 (subscription site)^ Morris (2004), p. 37; Sybil Hoare at thepeerage.com, accessed 22 February 2020^ Captain Berkeley Holme Sumner at thepeerage.com, accessed 22 February 2020^ Morris (1984), p. 62^ a b Beastly Beatie, C.B. Fry and the boys dated 17 August 1985 in The Spectator Archive, accessed 4 March 2019^ Hutchings, p. 189^ Keith Robin Hoare at thepeerage.com, accessed 22 February 2020^ Morris (1984), p. 77^ a b c d New light shed on C B Fry: A brilliant cricketer, a memorable character at Cricinfo.com, accessed 21 February 2020^ Morris, p. 88^ \u201cSumner, Beatrice Holme, & Fry, Charles Burgess\u201d, in Register of Marriages for Pancras Registration District,  vol. 1b (1898), p. 176^ Wilton (2000), p. 233^ Iain Wilton, C. B. Fry: An English Hero (Metro Books, 2000, ISBN\u00a0978-1-86066-180-8), p. 292^ \u201cFry Beatrice H\u201d in Register of Deaths for Southampton Registration District, vol. 2c (1946) p. 33^ \u201cFRY Beatrice Holme of Hamble Hampshire\u201d in Probate Index for 1946, online at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 21 February 2020References[edit]Ronald Morris, The Indomitable Beattie (Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN\u00a00-7509-3710-6)     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/beatrice-holme-sumner-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Beatrice Holme Sumner – Wikipedia"}}]}]