Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington

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Leicester FitzGerald Charles Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington, CB (2 September 1784 – 7 September 1862),[1] styled The Honourable Leicester Stanhope until 1851, was an English peer and soldier.

Early life

Leicester Stanhope was born in Dublin in 1784, the third son of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, and Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington.

Career

Stanhope became a Cornet and Sublieutenant in the

47th Regiment of Foot while serving there and was appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General on 24 April 1817.[9]

From late 1817 to 1818, Stanhope and his regiment took part in the

Companion of the Bath for his service in the conflict.[10] He resigned as quartermaster on 29 March 1821[11] and purchased an unattached lieutenant-colonelcy on 26 June 1823.[12] He was brevetted colonel on 10 January 1837.[13]

He is known as a worker with Lord Byron in the cause of Greek independence, although while he was in Greece in 1823 and 1824 his relations with Byron were not altogether harmonious. He wrote A Sketch of the History and Influence of the Press in British India (1823), and Greece, in 1823 and 1824.[14]

Personal life and death

On 23 April 1831, at St James's Church, Piccadilly, he married Elizabeth Green, daughter of William Green[1] and Ann Rose Hall, both of Jamaica. They had four children:

In 1851, he inherited the

earldom from his brother, Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington
.

Front View of Harrington House, 1852

In 1852 Stanhope acquired a plot of land formerly belonging to the kitchen garden of Kensington Palace: he constructed Harrington House (or No. 13 Kensington Palace Gardens), which was built in his favourite gothic style, at the cost of £15,000.[15] Harrington House was owned by the family until the First World War; Since 1930 Harrington House has been home to the Russian Embassy.[15] The exterior of the house was designed by Decimus Burton, following plans sketched by the Earl.[16] Works were carried under the supervision of Charles James Richardson, who was the surveyor to the Earl's extensive South Kensington estate.[16] Details and the final plans are thought to have been left to Richardson; he did, however, acknowledge the "great measure" the Earl was involved in the design.[16] The house's unorthodox architecture was widely criticised, including by Richardson; Lord Harrington, however, thought it to be "a house without a fault".[16]

Stanhope died 7 September 1862, aged 78, at Harrington House.[7]
He was succeeded by his son: Sydney Seymour Hyde Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington

References

  1. ^ a b c Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 2. London: Longmans, Green. p. 136.
  2. ^ "No. 15188". The London Gazette. 28 September 1799. p. 995.
  3. ^ "No. 15567". The London Gazette. 15 March 1803. pp. 287–288.
  4. ^ "No. 15571". The London Gazette. 29 March 1803. p. 369.
  5. ^ "No. 15641". The London Gazette. 8 November 1803. p. 1545.
  6. ^ "No. 16697". The London Gazette. 23 January 1813. p. 186.
  7. ^ a b Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1898). "Stanhope, Leicester Fitzgerald Charles" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 20–21.
  8. ^ "No. 17037". The London Gazette. 8 July 1815. p. 1355.
  9. ^ "No. 17248". The London Gazette. 6 May 1817. p. 1087.
  10. ^ "No. 17409". The London Gazette. 18 October 1818. p. 1851.
  11. ^ "No. 17695". The London Gazette. 7 April 1821. p. 782.
  12. ^ "No. 17937". The London Gazette. 5 July 1823. p. 1090.
  13. ^ "No. 19456". The London Gazette. 10 January 1837. p. 65.
  14. ^ Stanhope, Leicester (1825). Greece, in 1823 and 1824.
  15. ^ a b "NO.13 KENSINGTON PALACE GARDENS: HARRINGTON HOUSE". Russian Embassy. Archived from the original on 5 March 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  16. ^ a b c d Sheppard, F. H. W., ed. (1973). Survey of London: volume 37: Northern Kensington: The Crown estate in Kensington Palace Gardens: Individual buildings. pp. 162–193.

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