Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
George V | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Granard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 March 1854 |
| Died | 24 January 1933 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse | Enid Wilson (1878–1957) |
| Parent(s) | Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield Dorothea Hay |
| Alma mater | Brasenose College, Oxford |
Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, .
Background and education
Scudamore-Stanhope was the eldest child of Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, by Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet.[1] He was educated at Eton[2] and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1877 with a BA.[3] He was a practising barrister in 1877.[citation needed]
Political career
Scudamore-Stanhope was Assistant Private Secretary to the
Lord Steward of the Household under H. H. Asquith from 1910 to 1915[3] and Master of the Horse under Asquith and then David Lloyd George between 1915 and 1922. He was invested as a Knight Companion of the Garter on 1 January 1915.[4]
Family
Lord Chesterfield married the Hon.
Holme Lacy House, the Stanhope seat in Herefordshire, which the Earl had inherited from his father, but which he sold in 1909, having previously sold the contents in 1902. They lived afterwards at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, a property which her father bought for the couple as a belated wedding present. They did not have any children.[4]
Lord Chesterfield died in London on 24 January 1933, aged 78 and was buried in the Church of St Cuthbert in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.[5] Having no heirs, his titles were inherited by his younger brother, Henry.[4]
References
- ^ Profile: 9th Earl of Chesterfield, ThePeerage.com; Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ^ Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 172
- ^ a b G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, p. 187
- ^ a b c Thepeerage.com, 10th Earl of Chesterfield on thePeerage.com
- ^ [1][permanent dead link] St Cuthbert, Holme Lacy on the Visit Churches website