James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
Hereditary Peerage | |
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| Preceded by | The 6th Earl Stanhope |
| Succeeded by | The 11th Earl of Harrington (as viscount Stanhope of Mahon) |
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| Born | James Richard Stanhope 11 November 1880 |
| Died | 15 August 1967 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Eileen Browne (1889–1940)[1] |
| Parent(s) | Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope Evelyn Pennefather |
James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope,
Background
Stanhope was the eldest son of Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope, and Evelyn Henrietta (née Pennefather), daughter of Richard Pennefather of Knockeevan, County Tipperary and Lady Emily Butler. The Hon. Edward Stanhope and Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale, were his uncles.[citation needed]
Lord Mahon was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 5 January 1901,[2] and went with his battalion to serve in South Africa during the Second Boer War. Following the end of this war in June 1902, he returned with a large contingent of men from the guards regiments on board the SS Lake Michigan, which arrived in Southampton in October 1902.[3]
Political career
Stanhope entered the
He entered the cabinet in June 1936 when Baldwin appointed him
In July 1940, Stanhope and several other national politicians—including Baldwin and Chamberlain—were targeted in the polemic Guilty Men.[6] This publication accused these men of failing to prepare Britain for the looming war, and of appeasing Nazi Germany during the 1930s.[7] The accusations made in Guilty Men have subsequently been questioned by some critics.[8][9]
Family
Lord Stanhope married Lady Eileen Browne (1889–1940), the eldest daughter of George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo, and Agatha Stewart Hodgson, granddaughter of William Forsyth. They had no children. She died in September 1940, aged 51. With the death of Edward Scudamore-Stanhope, 12th Earl of Chesterfield, in 1952, Lord Stanhope inherited the peerage titles Earl of Chesterfield and Baron Stanhope, but did not apply for a writ of summons for the more senior Earldom of Chesterfield, and continued to be known as The Earl Stanhope. Stanhope died in August 1967, aged 86. On his death both earldoms and the barony of Stanhope became extinct, whereas the viscountcy of Stanhope of Mahon and the barony of Stanhope of Elvaston passed to his nearest heir, William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington.[citation needed] Lord Stanhope left his country seat Chevening to the nation.
Arms
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References
- ^ "Death notice". The Times, London, Sept. 23. 1940.
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1903
- ^ "The Army in South Africa – Troops returning home". The Times. No. 36876. London. 18 September 1902. p. 5.
- ^ a b hansard-millbanksystem.com James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope.
- ^ "No. 33492". The London Gazette. 7 August 1929. p. 3003.
- OCLC 301463537.
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- ^ Scott Kelly, "The Ghost of Neville Chamberlain: Guilty Men and the 1945 Election" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Conservative History Journal, Autumn 2005
- ^ Geoffrey Mander, We were not all wrong – How the Labour and Liberal Parties (& also the anti-Munich Tories) strove, pre-war, for the policy of collective security against aggression – with adequate armaments to make that policy effective: the truth about the peace ballot: etc, etc. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1944)
External links
- Newspaper clippings about James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
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