- Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield KG (
November 10 1755 –August 29 1815 ) was the son of Arthur Charles Stanhope, ofMansfield Woodhouse and Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Charles Headlam ofKerby , Yorkshire, and cousin, godson and, later, adopted son ofPhilip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (whose titles he inherited at his death in 1773). He was a great-great-great-grandson ofPhilip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield . He wasBritish Ambassador to Spain , (1784-1786),Master of the Mint , 1789–1790,K.G. , 1805.His adoptive father directed his early education; his tutors included the poet
Cuthbert Shaw , (1738 -1771), andEdward Gibbon 's friend the SwissJacques Georges Deyverdun , (8.5.1734, Lausanne, - 4.7.1789 Aix-les-Bains (Savoia)), as well asAdam Ferguson , Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, his successor ‘Mr De Saint Germain’, and the forger DrWilliam Dodd , (clergyman) (1729–1777), who was hanged for fraud in 1777.It order to gauge the intellectual ambient close to young Philip Stanhope it must be remembered here the close friendship of the great historian Edward Gibbon while living in Switzerland with
Suzanne Curchod (1737–6 May 1794) who rejected Gibbon's proposal of marriage and was the wife of French-Swiss bankerJacques Necker (September 30 ,1732 –April 9 ,1804 ), finance minister ofLouis XVI and was the mother of famously intellectual woman, Germaine,Madame de Staël , (April 22 ,1766 –July 14 ,1817 ).During his service in Germany he became member of the
Masonic Lodge "Minerva zu den drei Palmen"Leipzig in 1773.He became a favourite of
George III ;Privy Councillor 1784; joint Postmaster General 1790;Master of the Horse 1798–1804.He married firstly, Anne Thistlewayte, on
20 August 1777 . He married secondly, Lady Henrietta Thynne, daughter ofThomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath , Viscount of Weymouth since 1751 and Marquess of Bath since 1789, on2 May 1799 and they had two children:*Lady Georgiana Stanhope (d. 1824), married
Frederick Richard West , a grandson ofJohn West, 2nd Earl De La Warr
*George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield (1805–1866),External links
* [http://www.minerva-zu-den-drei-palmen.de/ Masonic Lodge "Minerva zu den drei Palmen" Leipzig]
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