Enid Scudamore-Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield

Enid Edith Scudamore-Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield was born 10th September 1878 at Marske Hall in Yorkshire. She was the fourth child of Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme and Florence Jane Helen Wellesley. On 15th February 1900 at the age of 21 she married Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, an eligible batchelor more than twice her age [National Trust Beningbrough Hall Guidebook] . After her marriage she became Enid Edith Scudamore-Stanhope, Lady Chesterfield. They lived at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, a property which her father bought for the couple as a belated wedding present. Lady Chesterfield set up a stud farm at Beningbrough Hall in the early 1920s and bred thoroughbred racehorses, one of which called Sun Castle won the 1941 St Leger Stakes [http://www.tbheritage.com/TurfHallmarks/racecharts/stleger.html] .She was the last person to live at Beningbrough Hall where she was from 1917 until her death on 30th November 1957.

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