"RF number is 1950/1793.\n\nThe skirt and train were donated by Sir Henry Tate (1902-94). Sir Henry Tate was the son of the 3rd Baronet Sir Ernest William Tate (1867-1939) and Mildred Mary Gossage (d. 1942) who married in 1892.\n\nThe donor said that his grandmother wore the skirt and train and that the silk was woven in Spitalfields in East London. His grandmothers were Caroline Hill Rigby Tate, n\u00E9e Glasgow (1845-1927) who married William Henry Tate, 2nd Baronet and High Sheriff of Lancaster (1842-1921) and Clara Eliza Gossage (1834-1874) who married Frederick Herbert Gossage (1833-1907). In 1882 the widowed Frederick Herbert Gossage married Amy Perrin (b.1860). \nThe death of Tate\u2019s maternal grandmother in 1872, the style of the dress, its size and a surviving photograph of Caroline Hill Rigby Tate suggest that she is the most likely wearer. \n\nIn the 1890s William Henry and Caroline Tate lived at Highfield, Woolton, Liverpool and had a country estate at Henllan in Denbighshire. Both houses were substantial and had large gardens. \n\nIt is possible that the outfit was preserved because it was worn at a significant occasion. For instance it may have been ordered to celebrate a double wedding on 11 June 1896 at Woolton Parish Church when two of William Henry and Caroline Tate\u2019s daughters, Ethel Caroline and Helen Frances, married two brothers, William Winwood and Guy Winwood Gossage, sons of Frederick Herbert Gossage. (\u2018Fashionable Marriages at Woolton\u2019, Liverpool Mercury, 12 June 1896)\n\nFloral motifs\nThe species of the roses which decorate the train has not been identified. The other flower is probably a species of Consolida, the plant commonly known as larkspur.\n\nThe pattern of the silk used to create the train is striking. The flower stems are arranged as individual specimens as if the blooms had been selected for flower arranging."@en . . . . "RF number is 1950/1793.\n\nThe skirt and train were donated by Sir Henry Tate (1902-94). Sir Henry Tate was the son of the 3rd Baronet Sir Ernest William Tate (1867-1939) and Mildred Mary Gossage (d. 1942) who married in 1892.\n\nThe donor said that his grandmother wore the skirt and train and that the silk was woven in Spitalfields in East London. His grandmothers were Caroline Hill Rigby Tate, n\u00E9e Glasgow (1845-1927) who married William Henry Tate, 2nd Baronet and High Sheriff of Lancaster (1842-1921) and Clara Eliza Gossage (1834-1874) who married Frederick Herbert Gossage (1833-1907). In 1882 the widowed Frederick Herbert Gossage married Amy Perrin (b.1860). \nThe death of Tate\u2019s maternal grandmother in 1872, the style of the dress, its size and a surviving photograph of Caroline Hill Rigby Tate suggest that she is the most likely wearer. \n\nIn the 1890s William Henry and Caroline Tate lived at Highfield, Woolton, Liverpool and had a country estate at Henllan in Denbighshire. Both houses were substantial and had large gardens. \n\nIt is possible that the outfit was preserved because it was worn at a significant occasion. For instance it may have been ordered to celebrate a double wedding on 11 June 1896 at Woolton Parish Church when two of William Henry and Caroline Tate\u2019s daughters, Ethel Caroline and Helen Frances, married two brothers, William Winwood and Guy Winwood Gossage, sons of Frederick Herbert Gossage. (\u2018Fashionable Marriages at Woolton\u2019, Liverpool Mercury, 12 June 1896)\n\nFloral motifs\nThe species of the roses which decorate the train has not been identified. The other flower is probably a species of Consolida, the plant commonly known as larkspur.\n\nThe pattern of the silk used to create the train is striking. The flower stems are arranged as individual specimens as if the blooms had been selected for flower arranging."@en . . "Donated by Sir Henry Tate, 4th Baronet." .