KIRKHOVEN, Charles Henry (1643-83) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 9 May 1643, Bodl. Clarendon 95, f. 103. 1st s. of Jan van der Kerckhove, heer van Heenvliet (Holland) (d.1660), and Katherine (d.1667), da. of Thomas Wotton^†, 2nd Bar. Wotton of Marley, wid. of Henry Stanhope^‡, styled. Ld. Stanhope (d. 29 Nov. 1634), and from 29 May 1660 suo jure countess of Chesterfield; half-bro. Philip Stanhope, 2nd earl of Chesterfield. educ. unknown. m. 25 Aug. 1679, Frances (1642–1714), da. William Willoughby, 5th (CP 6th) Bar. Willoughby of Parham, s.p. d. 5 Jan. 1683; will 6 Oct. 1682, pr. 14 July 1688. TNA, PROB 11/392.

Offices Held

Intendant?, household of princess of Orange Mar.-Dec. 1660; William Lower, A Relation … of the voyage and residence which … Charles II … hath made in Holland (1660), p. 66; M.A.E. Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, vi. 315. officer?, household of prince of Orange 1660–?. Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, vi. 313, where he is merely described as having ‘an important position in her [Princess Mary’s] son’s establishment’.

Warden, preservation of game, Hampstead, Mdx. 1666–?d., Swarkeston, Derbys. 1681–d. CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 40; 1680–1, p. 155.

Capt. tp. of horse, ‘Holland Regt.’ 1660–?. Lower, A Relation … of the voyage, 66.

Parlimentarian

KIRKHOVEN, Charles Henry (1643-83)

Associated with: Belsize Manor, Hampstead c.1667–d.VCH Mdx. ix. 96, 98; J.J. Park, Topography and Natural History of Hampstead, 153-5.;

VAN DEN KERCKHOVE

Likenesses

oil on canvas by Sir P. Lely, 1650, double portrait with half-brother Philip Stanhope* [729], 2nd earl of Chesterfield, as children, sold at Sotheby's, 12 June 2003.

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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