STANHOPE, THOMAS HENRY SPENCER, brother of John Spencer Stanhope (qv); b. 14 May 1794; adm.; at school 1805; left 1808; d. 3 Apr 1808.
STANHOPE, PHILIP, natural son of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC, and Elizabeth du Bouchet, The Hague, Netherlands; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 (Morel's); left 1746; Grand Tour (Italy) 1746-51 (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France); MP Liskeard 1754-61, St. Germans 1761 – May 1765; British Resident, Hamburg 1757-63; Envoy to Imperial Diet 1763; Envoy Extraordinary at Dresden from 1764; the recipient of the Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his Son; at “Mr Morel’s boarding house in Cowley Street” in Aug 1743 (Letter XCIX); “the boy was encumbered with flesh, and nature had so carelessly compacted his limbs as scarcely to leave them the poer of flexure. In a word, in infancy he was shapeless, and in youth a looby. Never did a she-bear with more anxious assiduity labour to lick her cub into shape than this fond parent did to correct the errors of nature in the formation of this his darling” (Hawkins, Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1787, 181-2); “Mr. Stanhope’s character has been unjustly represented as diametrically opposite to what Lord Chesterfield wished him to be. He has been called dull, gross and awkward : but I knew him at Dresden, when he was Envoy to that Court; and though he could not boast of the graces, he was in truth a sensible, civil, well-behaved man” (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, 1887, i, 266 note); m. c. 1759 (secretly) Eugenia Peters, natural dau. of Compton Domvile MP (I); d. at Avignon, France 16 Nov 1768.
STANHOPE, PHILIP, younger son of Philip Stanhope (qv); b. 21 Jan 1763; adm. 4 Oct 1773; in school list Jul 1779; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1779, aged 16; BA 1783; adm. Middle Temple 6 Feb 1779, called to bar 12 Jun 1789; migr. to Inner Temple 23 Nov 1789; m. 28 May 1790 Elizabeth Daniel, Bristol; d. 18 Oct 1801. [Perhaps Ensign, 12th Foot 11 Jun 1781, as “Philip Dormer Stanhope”].
STANHOPE, PHILIP, 3RD EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, eldest son of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, and his third wife Lady Elizabeth Dormer, eldest dau. of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon; b. 3 Feb 1672/3; at school under Busby (W. H. Craig, Life of Lord Chesterfield, 1907, 37-9); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 May 1691; succ. father as 3rd Earl of Chesterfield 28 Jan 1713/4; lic. to m. 24 Feb 1691/2 Lady Elizabeth Savile, dau. of George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax; d. 27 Jan 1725/6.
STANHOPE, PHILIP SPENCER, brother of John Spencer Stanhope (qv); b. 25 Jan 1799; adm. 8 Apr 1809; left 1811; Page of Honour to George III and to Prince Regent Mar 1809 – Mar 1815; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 30 Mar 1815; half-pay 25 Dec 1818 – 25 Feb 1819; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards 17 Jul 1823; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 16 Mar 1832; Brevet Col., 9 Nov 1846; Maj., 1st Foot Guards 10 Apr 1849; Lieut. -Col., 13 Sep 1853; Major-Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Apr 1861; Gen., 22 Nov 1868; Col., 13th Light Infantry, from 1 May 1864; m. 2 May 1865 Mary Catherine, widow of Edward Rowland Strickland, and dau. of J. Harrison, Pocklington, Yorks.; d. 21 Feb 1880.
STANHOPE, LANGDALE, brother of George Stanhope (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1716; left 1719; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1719; BCL 1728; of Grimston, Yorks.; d. unm. before 1739. [presumably Langdale Stanhope, Grimston, Yorks., , will proved PCC 15 May 1731]
STANHOPE, JOHN SPENCER, second son of Walter Spencer Stanhope MP, Cannon Hall, near Barnsley, Yorks., and Mary Winifred, dau. of Thomas Babington Pulleine, Carleton Hall, Richmond, Yorks.; b. 27 May 1787; adm. 8 Apr 1799 (Clapham); in school lists 1801, 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1804; he and his brother Edward were detained in France during the Napoleonic Wars, but obtained their freedom by undertaking to conduct archaeological researches in Greece, where they spent the year 1814; FRS 27 Jun 1816; DL JP Yorkshire; author, Topography illustrative of the Battle of Plataea, 1817, and other works; m. 5 Dec 1822 Lady Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, third dau. of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester; d. 7 Nov 1873.
STANHOPE, JAMES BANKS, son of Lieut. -Col. Hon. James Hamilton Stanhope MP, 1st Foot Guards, and Lady Frederica Louisa Murray, eldest dau. of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv); b. 13 May 1821; adm. 1 Apr 1833 (G); KS 1834; left Dec 1837; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1839; of Revesby Abbey, Lincs.; MP (Conservative) North Lincolnshire 1852-68; DL JP Lincolnshire; Busby Trustee 17 May 1881; d. 18 Jan 1904.
STANHOPE, HUGH SPENCER, brother of John Spencer Stanhope (qv); b. 30 Sep 1804; adm. 9 Apr 1817 (Best's); adm. Middle Temple 13 May 1823, called to bar 29 May 1829; Northern Circuit; m. 11 May 1848 Ammy Anne, fifth dau. of Henry Percy Pulleine, Crake Hall, Yorks.; d. 24 Dec 1871.