Family and Education
bap. 20 Nov. 1633, Bromley Local Studies Lib., P/277B/1/1; Add. 19253, f. 210. 2nd but o. surv. s. of Henry Stanhope‡, styled Ld. Stanhope and Katherine, da. of Thomas Wotton†, 2nd Bar. Wotton of Marley, from 29 May 1660 suo jure countess of Chesterfield; half-bro. of Charles Henry Kirkhoven (van der Kerckhove)*, Bar. Wotton of Wotton; educ. private tutor (Jehan Poliander van der Kerckhove), Netherlands 1641-2, prince of Orange's college, Breda 1645-6, matric. Univ. of Leiden 2 June 1649, English-Speaking Students [at], Leyden University, 93. Monsieur de Veau’s Academy, Paris 1649, travelled abroad (France, Italy, Germany) 1649-51, Add. 19253, ff. 210v-208v (read from back to front of volume). DCL, Oxf. 15 July 1669. m. (1) 21 June 1652 Anne (1633-54), da. Algernon Percy, 4th earl of Northumberland, 1s. d.v.p.; Ibid. ff. 208v-206v. (2) 25 Sept. 1660 Elizabeth (1640-65), da. James Butler, marquess (later duke) of Ormond [I], 1s. d.v.p., 1da.; Ibid. ff. 203v-202v. (3) 1670 Elizabeth (d. 1677), da. Charles Dormer, 2nd earl of Carnarvon, 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da. (1 d.v.p.). Ibid. f. 199v. d. 28 Jan. 1714; will 17 Dec. 1713, pr. 21 Jan. 1715. TNA, PROB 11/544.
Offices Held
Ld. chamberlain, queen consort 1662 – 65; cllr., queen consort 1662–86?;
Steward, chase of Thorny Wood, Notts. 1656?-d.,
Col., regt. of ft., June – Aug. 1667, 3rd Regt. of Ft. [Holland], 1682 – 84.
FRS 1708.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Associated with: Bretby Hall, Derbys.; Covent Garden, Mdx (from 1667);Old and New London, iii. 265-6.; Southampton Square, Mdx (by 1681); Belsize Manor, Hampstead, Mdx. (from 1683);VCH Middlesex, ix. 96; TNA, PROB 11/544. ; Brizlincote Hall, Derbys (from 1707).Add. 19253, f. 187v.;
Likenesses
etching by ?Thomas Worlidge, after Sir P. Lely, after original then at Melbourne Hall, Derbys., c.1715-66, British Museum P,8.80.
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