Person Stanhope; Philip (1633 - 1713); 2nd Earl of Chesterfield Stanhope Philip 1633 - 1713 Male 1633 His house in Bloomsbury Square, Middlesex 28 January 1713 Burial: Shelford, Nottinghamshire

Education: Pupil of Poliander, Professor of Divinity at Leyden (1640); the Prince of Orange's College at Breda; Oxford; DCL (1669) Career: Lived in Holland and France (1640-1652); travelled in Italy (1650, 1654-1656); returned to England (1652); notorious for his wildness, one of his mistresses was Barbara Villiers, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland; imprisoned in the Tower of London for wounding Captain John Whalley in a duel (1658) and on suspicion of involvement in Sir George Booth's rising (1659); killed a man in a duel, fled to France, and having obtained pardon from Charles II, returned to England in his train (1660); Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Braganza (1662-1665); member of her Council (1670); Colonel of a regiment of foot (1667, 1682); Privy Councillor (1681); Warden of the royal forests south of Trent (1679); disapproved of James II's religious policies but refused preferment from William III and Queen Anne Son of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope, and his wife, Katharine, daughter of Thomas, Lord Wotton, and afterwards suo jure Countess of Chesterfield; succeeded his grandfather (1656). Married: 1) Anne, daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, and his first wife, Anne, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury; 2) Elizabeth, daughter of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, and his wife, Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Dingwall; 3) Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, and his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur Capel, 1st Baron Capel Fellow 30/11/1708 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Foster International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1633 - 28 Jan 1713 NA3857 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 66bcea96-8432-40c5-ad84-8b5a4aeafae0