Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield

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, of Mansfield Woodhouse and Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Charles Headlam of Kerby, Yorkshire, and cousin, godson and, later, adopted son of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (whose titles he inherited at his death in 1773). He was a great-great-great-grandson of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. He was British 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), and Edward Gibbon's friend the Swiss Jacques Georges Deyverdun, (8.5.1734, Lausanne, - 4.7.1789 Aix-les-Bains (Savoia)), as well as Adam Ferguson, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, his successor ‘Mr De Saint Germain’, and the forger Dr William 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 banker Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732–April 9, 1804), finance minister of Louis 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 of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, Viscount of Weymouth since 1751 and Marquess of Bath since 1789, on 2 May 1799 and they had two children:

*Lady Georgiana Stanhope (d. 1824), married Frederick Richard West, a grandson of John 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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