Editing Richard D'Oyly Carte (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Carte-family.png|thumb|left|alt=four faces: two women, both white with dark hair, one in left profile, one in semi-profile; two men, both white with dark hair, full face|Carte's family: clockwise from top left, Blanche, [[Helen Carte|Helen]], Lucas, and [[Rupert D'Oyly Carte|Rupert]]]]
Carte was married twice. His first wife was Blanche Julia Prowse (1853–1885), the daughter of [[Keith Prowse|William Prowse]], a piano manufacturer, music publisher and booking agent. As a teenager, she had participated in amateur theatricals with Carte.<ref name=Ainger75/> They married in 1870<ref name=DNB/> and had two sons, Lucas (1872–1907) and [[Rupert D'Oyly Carte|Rupert]].<ref name=j132>Joseph, p. 132</ref> Blanche died of pneumonia in 1885,<ref name=j132/> and in 1888, Carte married his assistant, Helen Lenoir.<ref name=helenDNB/> Their wedding took place in the [[Savoy Chapel]], with [[Arthur Sullivan]] as the best man.<ref name=goodman>Goodman, p. 26</ref> Rupert received training in an accounting firm and then became his father's assistant in 1894. Lucas, who was not involved in the family businesses, became a [[barrister]]. He was appointed Private Secretary to [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Lord Chief Justice]] [[Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen|Charles Russell]] in 1899 in connection with the [[Schomburgk Line|Venezuelan boundary arbitration]] in Paris. He contracted [[tuberculosis]] of which he died at the age of 34.{{refn|Lucas was born on 27 December 1872 and was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[Magdalen College, Oxford]]. He was called to the bar in 1897. After he contracted tuberculosis, he worked for the rest of his life on issues relating to the disease and died on 18 January 1907.<ref>"Obituary: Lucas D'Oyly Carte", ''The Times'', 22 January 1907, p. 12</ref>|group= n}}

Carte's London house was at the [[Adelphi, London|Adelphi]], not far from the Savoy.<ref>Joseph, p. 131</ref> Passionate about the visual arts as well as the performing arts, Carte invited his friend, the artist [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler|James McNeill Whistler]], to decorate the house. Whistler had the entire billiard room painted the colour of the billiard cloth, and elsewhere painted his favourite yellow with his own hand.<ref>Baily, p. 311.</ref> Equally enthusiastic for technological innovation, Carte installed a lift, the first in a private house in England.<ref>Goodman, p. 21</ref> Around 1890, he bought a small island in the [[River Thames]], between [[Weybridge]] and [[Shepperton]], called Folly Eyot, which he renamed [[D'Oyly Carte Island]]. He wanted to use the island as an annex to his new [[Savoy Hotel]], but the local authorities refused to grant him a drinks licence for the property.<ref>Barrington, p. 73</ref> Instead, he built Eyot House, a large house and garden on the island, that he used as a residence<ref>Pauling, Keith. [http://www.thamespathway.com/chapter10/richard-doyly-carte.aspx "Richard D’Oyly Carte"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101121858/http://www.thamespathway.com/chapter10/richard-doyly-carte.aspx |date=1 January 2013 }}, ''Thames Pathway: Journal of a Walk Down the River Thames'', 2009, accessed 15 January 2019</ref> and where he entertained guests.<ref>Winn, p. 138</ref> In later years, Carte displayed his macabre sense of humour by keeping a crocodile on the island.<ref name=b124>Baily, p. 124</ref>{{refn|Baily speculates that Carte's sense of humour was a bond with Gilbert just as his "cultured musical mind" was a bond with Sullivan.<ref name=b124/>|group= n}}