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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.

STANHOPE, HENRY, natural son of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (qv); b. ; QS 1702 (as Henry Willott); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1706 (as Henry Willott), adm. pens. 28 May 1706 (as Henry Stanhope, son of Henry Stanhope, Derby), aged 19, scholar 25 Apr 1707; BA 1709/10; assumed surname of Stanhope in lieu of Willott 1706; ordained deacon 25 Feb 1710/1, priest 27 Apr 1711 (both London); Rector of Bingham, Notts. , from 5 May 1711; under his father’s will he received nothing but a very remote reversion to the family estates, and is said to have become mentally deranged in consequence; a tradition survived at Bingham that he always wore white breeches and rode about on a large white mule; m. 7 Dec 1714 Jane Villers, Nottingham; buried Bingham, Notts. , 28 Apr 1764.

STANHOPE, GEORGE, eldest son of John Stanhope, Grimston, Yorks., and Judith, dau. of Langdale Sunderland, Ackton, Yorks.; b.; at school under Knipe; “d. young at Westminster School, eldest son, under age 1704” (pedigree compiled by Rev. Joseph Hunter, in J. W. Clay, ed., Familiae Minorum Gentium, 1895, iii, 988) [perhaps George Stanhope, son of John Stanhope, bapt. Wragby, Yorks. 16 Sep 1700 (IGI)]

STANHOPE, EDWIN FRANCIS, son of Charles Stanhope, Hollingbourne, Kent, and Cecilia, dau. of Dutton Stede, Stede Hill, Kent; b.; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1741/2 (Hawkins'); left 1745; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Mar 1745/6; DCL 13 Mar 1761; Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to Queen Charlotte Sep 1761 – Feb 1783; Equerry to Queen Charlotte from 13 Feb 1783; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber 1781-3; Commissioner, Salt Office 5 Jul 1785 – 28 Jun 1798 (when post abolished); m. 9 Aug 1753 Lady Catherine Brydges, widow of William Berkeley Lyon, and dau. of John Brydges, Marquis of Carnarvon (qv); d. 16 May 1807.

Stanhope, Colin Lundin, eldest son of Colin Stanhope-Jones, of the War Office, by Edith, second daughter of Frederick Maples, of London, solicitor; b. Aug. 8, 1875; adm. Jan. 18, 1888; left July 1892; assumed the surname of Stanhope only 1911; enlisted in the Foreign Legion, and served with the French Red Cross; joined the British Army; Lieut. Special List April 3, 1917; temp. Capt. Feb. 9, 1918; employed on Censor's Staff; O.B.E. June 3 1919; m. Feb. 19, 1900, Constance, youngest daughter of Commander Alexander George Temple­ West, R.N.; d. Oct. 1919.