Victor Strode Manley in Volume 11 of his Regional Survey of the Warminster District, compiled during the 1920s and 1930s, included the following undated cutting from an unnamed newspaper:
THREE GENERATIONS IN AN ENTERTAINMENT
PROGRAMME BY MARQUESS OF BATH’S FAMILY
(From Our Own Correspondent)
BATH, Saturday.
Three generations of the Thynne family completed a successful three nights’ run of a variety entertainment this evening, in aid of local “good causes,” at the village hall at Horningsham, near Longleat, the Marquess of Bath’s house.
Comedy was a feature of the programme, and Lord Bath’s grand-children appeared in several charming tableaux. The Hon. Caroline Thynne, as Jack the Giant-killer, stood in a threatening attitude before Lord Bath, who made a fearsome giant with a shaggy beard, top-boots, and a huge cudgel.
After a quick change, Lord Bath’s other appearance was as the miner in a mime of the old song “Clementine,” in which his second daughter, Lady Nunburnholme, played the name-part; his son, Viscount Weymouth, M.P., the lover; and Miss Josepha Smith, the “little sister,” whom the song records as having been such a consolation after Clementine’s unpleasant experience in the “foaming brine.”
Viscountess Weymouth, the producer, appeared several times, but her “star turn” was the exceedingly clever characterisation she gave as a girl in the slums telling a fairy story in broad Cockney and with typical gesticulations to a crowd of children, composed of her own little daughter and her nephews and niece, Masters Thomas, John, and Martin Stanley, the Hon. Ben, and the Hon. Charmian Wilson.