| Authorised form of name | Stanhope; Philip (1633 - 1713); 2nd Earl of Chesterfield |
| Dates | 1633 - 1713 |
| Date of birth | 1633 |
| Place of death | His house in Bloomsbury Square, Middlesex |
| Date of death | 28 January 1713 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Shelford, Nottinghamshire |
| Activity | 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
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/11/1708 |
| Relationships | 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 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Foster |
| Code | NA3857 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/004361 | Stanhope, Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield | nd |