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Stanley, Richard Harrison, son of Ethelbert Thomas Stanley of Acton and Edith Irene, d. of Richard Beavis RA; b. 22 Feb. 1911; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left Dec. 1927; a co. director in Johan­nesburg; SAAF in WW2 (Capt.); d. 4 July 1974.

STANLEY, HON. EDWARD, brother of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (qv); b. Jun 1732; adm. Feb 1741/2 (Morel's); left 1744; d. 20 Apr 1745.

Stanhope-Jones, Basil Charles, brother of Colin Lundin Stanhope (q.v.); b. Feb. 18, 1878; adm. May 2, 1889 (G); left Dec. 1892, and subsequently went to Ushaw; 2nd Lieut. 9th Batt. N. Staffs Regt. July 22, 1915; served with his Regt. and on 37th Divisional Staff during Great War I; mentioned in despatches L.G. Dec. 28, 1918; writer and journalist; author of Barbed Wire (1918), and numerous plays; m.; d. June 18, 1943.

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, 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, 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.