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Earl of Chesterfield, in the County of Derby, was a title in the Peerage of England.It was created in 1628 for Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope.He had been created Baron Stanhope, of Shelford in the County of Nottingham, in 1616, also in the Peerage of England.
He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known by the courtesy title of Lord Stanhope until the death of his father in 1726. [1] Following the death of his mother in 1708, Stanhope was raised mainly by his grandmother, the Marchioness of Halifax. [ 2 ]
On 7 November 1616, he was created Baron Stanhope and was further elevated as Earl of Chesterfield on 4 August 1628. [3] [4] Leading up to the English Civil War, Chesterfield was summoned to Parliament in 1640 and took the side of King Charles I in the threatening conflict. When the conflict broke out he and his sons took up arms.
George Philip Stanhope (29 November 1822 – 19 October 1883) was the 8th Earl of Chesterfield, succeeding to the title on the death of his third cousin, the 7th Earl, in 1871. He was the son of George Charles Stanhope and Jane Galbraith. Stanhope married, firstly, Marianne Roche, daughter of William Roche, on 8 April 1856.
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield KG, PC, FRS, FSA (10 November 1755 – 29 August 1815), known as Philip Stanhope until 1773, was a British politician and diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Spain between 1784 and 1787, Master of the Mint between 1789 and 1790, Joint Postmaster General between 1790 and 1798 and Master of the Horse ...
George Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield (1831–1871), who died unmarried of typhoid fever. [10] Lady Evelyn Stanhope (1834–1875), who married Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. [10] Lord Chesterfield died in June 1866, aged 61, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son, George. The Countess of Chesterfield died in July 1885, aged 82.
He inherited the title of Earl of Chesterfield on the death of his grandfather in 1656. [1] He was educated by Poliander, Professor of Divinity at Leyden (1640) and at the Prince of Orange's College at Breda. In 1669 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws by the University of Oxford. Elizabeth Dormer (Peter Cross, 1667)
A c. 1695 portrait of Chesterfield and his wife Elizabeth, three of his children and a Black servant. Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield (3 February 1673 – 27 January 1726) was an English peer. He was the eldest son of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, by his third wife, Lady Elizabeth Stanhope.