STANHOPE, Philip (1732-68).

b. in Holland, Mar. 1732, illegit. s. of Philip Dormer, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, by Elizabeth du Bouchet.Born abroad, out of wedlock and of a foreign mother, he was presumably foreign-born, and a formal act of naturalization would have merely established his incapacity to sit in Parliament. But apparently his British nationality was tacitly assumed. educ. Westminster 1743-6; Grand Tour 1746-51.Till 1748 with Edward Eliot (q.v.). m. secretly c.1759, Eugenia Peeters, illegit. da. of one Domville of Ireland, 2s.