in 1888. In 1892, he married Edith Sophy Balfour. In 1895, he was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal Unionist. In 1900 he was appointed Queen's Counsel and was sent to South Africa as chairman of the committee planning reconstruction following the Boer War. He served as Colonial Secretary from 1903 to 1905. Henry White, U.S. diplomat (1850–1927) and his wife, Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd 'Daisey' White. Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856–1937). The Coterie The Coterie, often considered to be the second generation of The Souls, was a celebrated group of intellectuals, a mix of aristocrats, politicians and art-lovers, most of whom were killed in the First World War. There were children of The Souls among them, notably Lady Diana Manners, daughter of Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland. Officially the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland, she was in fact the daughter of Harry Cust. She married one of the Coterie's few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British Ambassador to France. After his death, she wrote three volumes of memoirs. Raymond Asquith, eldest son of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, was a member of the Coterie, but not out of sympathy with his stepmother, Margot Tennant Asquith. He was killed on the Somme. References Further reading Abdy, Jane and Charlotte Gere. The Souls. London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. Ellenberger, Nancy W. Balfour’s World: Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. Lambert, Angela. Unquiet Souls: The Indian Summer of the British Aristocracy, 1880–1918. London: Macmillan, 1984. Nevins, Allan. Henry White: Thirty Years of American Diplomacy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 1885 establishments in the United Kingdom 1900 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1885 Organizations disestablished in 1900 Social history of the United Kingdom Edwardian era Organisations based in the United Kingdom Home rule in Ireland