Lords 1660-1715

bap. 10 Sept. 1640, E. Dwelly, Dwelly’s Parish Records, i (High Ham, Som.). 5th but 3rd surv. s. of Sir John Stawell^‡, KB, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Edward Hext^‡, of Low Ham, Som., wid. of Sir Joseph Killigrew^‡, of Lothbury, London. m. (1) settlement 8 Apr. 1667 (with £3,000), Anne (d. 1670), da. of John Ryves of Ranston, Dorset, 1s. 1da.; (2) 2 July 1672, Soc. Gen. St. Peter le Poer par. reg. Abigail (d. 27 Sept. 1692), da. and h. of William Pitt of Hartley Wespall, Hants, 2s. 4da. (2 d.v.p.). Collins Peerage (1812), vii. 278–9; G.D. Stawell, A Quantock Family 493. suc. bro. George Stawell 25 Oct. 1669. CSP Dom. 1668–9, p. 560. d. 8 Aug. 1689; will 19 July 1688; pr. 3 Dec. 1689. TNA, PROB 11/397.

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.