Family and Education
bap. 27 Apr. 1595, 1st s. of John Stanhope† (later Bar. Stanhope of Harrington) and Margaret (d. 1640), da. of Henry Mackwilliam‡ of Stamborne, Essex. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1608, MA 1612 (incorp. Oxf. 1622); G. Inn 1611; travelled abroad (France) c.1612–13. J.M. Osborn, ‘Ben Jonson and the Eccentric Lord Stanhope’, TLS (1957), 16. m. 23 Nov. 1641 (with £4,000), The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval, ed. D.G. Greene (Surtees Soc. cxc), 74. Dorothy (c.1621–86), da. of Sir John Livingston, bt. [S], of Kinnaird, Perth, s.p. KB 2 June 1610. bur. 3 Dec. 1675 3 Dec. 1675; will 17 July 1666, pr. 12 Feb. 1676. TNA, PROB 11/350.
Offices Held
Postmaster general (jt.) 1607 – 21, (sole) 1621 – 37.
Kpr. Colchester Castle (jt.) 1603 – 21, (sole) 1621 – 62; warden and preserver of game, Nocton, Lincs. 1661–d.
Likenesses
oil on canvas, circle of Robert Peake, c.1610 (sold at Christie’s, London, 22 Nov. 2006).
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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