Spencer-Stanhope family

Spencer-Stanhope is the family name of British landed gentry who for 200 years held Cannon Hall, a country house in South Yorkshire that since the 1950s has been a museum. The hyphenated form of the name is more common in British orthography, but American sources often omit the hyphen and alphabetize by "Stanhope."

19th century

Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, several family members (by birth and marriage) were active in the art world. They were related through John Spencer Stanhope (b. 1787), a classical antiquarian, writer, and explorer, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Coke of Norfolk, 1st Earl of Leicester. The couple died in 1873 within a few days of each other; she on October 31, he on November 7. They had six children:

* Sir Walter Spencer Stanhope (1827–1911), the eldest, owned Cannon Hall from 1873 to 1911. He married Elizabeth Julia Buxton (d. 1880) in 1856. They had eleven children: John Montague (b. 1860), Walter (b. 1861), Edward Collingwood (b. 1863), Hugh (b. 1864), Philip Bertie (b. 1868), Mary Gertrude (a sculptor and painter), Cecily Winifrid (who helped her father design the ballroom at Cannon Hall and "Fairyland" in the pleasure grounds of the estate), Margaret Isabella, Alice Mildred, Winifrid Julia, and an infant daughter who did not survive.

*John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (1829–1908) was a noted second-generation pre-Raphaelite artist.

*Anna Maria Wilhelmina married Percival André Pickering, Queen's Counsel, Recorder of Pontefract. They had five children, including:

:*Evelyn, the pre-Raphaelite artist known by her married surname, Evelyn de Morgan, whose husband was the artist William de Morgan.

:*Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina, author of several books writing as A.M.W. Stirling under her married surname, and founder of the De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society.

*Eliza Anne (d. 1859), who married the Rev. Richard St. John Tyrwhitt of Oxford.

*Anne Alicia.

*Louisa Elizabeth (1832–1867).

ee also

Cannon Hall

Walter Spencer Stanhope, father of the John Spencer Stanhope who was born in 1787

John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope

Evelyn de Morgan

Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope

ources

Burke, Bernard. "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britian and Ireland". London 1863. Part 2, 4th edition, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ni4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1417&dq=%22mary+gertrude+Elizabeth%22+intitle:Genealogical&lr=&as_brr=0 p. 1417.]

The De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society, [http://www.demorgan.org.uk home]

Pratt, Charles Tiplady. "A History of Cawthorne". Barnsley 1882. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZbkHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:A+intitle:History+intitle:of+intitle:Cawthorne&lr=&as_brr=3 Online] and also .

Stirling, A.M.W. "Coke of Norfolk and His Friends". New York 1908, [http://books.google.com/books?id=95lCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:COke+intitle:of+intitle:Norfolk+intitle:and+intitle:His+intitle:Friends&lr=&as_brr=3 vol. 2]