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 MEMOIRS

CHAPTER I.

It probably will be known to most readers that Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter of Charles Earl of Stanhope by Hester, his first wife, sister to Mr. William Pitt, and daughter of the first Earl of Chatham. He had issue by this first wife—three daughters—Hester, Griselda, and Lucy. The earl