| Authorised form of name | Stanhope; Charles (1673 - 1760) |
| Dates | 1673 - 1760 |
| Date of birth | 1673 |
| Date of death | 16 March 1760 |
| Activity | Education:
Inner Temple
Career:
Called to the Bar (1703); Under-Secretary of State to his cousin, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (1714-1717); MP for Milborne Port (1717-1722); MP for Aldborough (1722-1734); MP for Harwich (1734-1741); Secretary to the Treasury (1717-1721); charged with accepting bribes from the South Sea Company, his acquittal caused outrage (1721); Treasurer of the Chamber (1722-1727); George II refused to give him preferment, having found papers in his handwriting advising George I to deal with his troublesome son by having him kidnapped and removed to some other part of the world
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/07/1726 |
| Proposer | General Sir Francis Nicholson |
| Relationships | Son of John Stanhope of Elvaston, Derbyshire, and his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Charles Agard of Foston, Derbyshire; unmarried |
| OtherInfo | The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for the encouragement of the Fishery) was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. To generate income, in 1713 the company was granted a monopoly (the Asiento) to supply enslaved Africans to the islands in the 'South Seas' and South America. Company stock rose greatly in value as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, and peaked in 1720 before suddenly collapsing to little above its original flotation price. The notorious economic bubble thus created, which ruined thousands of investors, became known as the South Sea Bubble. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Sedgwick; IT |
| Code | NA266 |