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 STANHOPE. 2.35 22 March 1720/1, 1? ITSSi 25 June 1726 and 2 May 1730. His widow, who, 16 Aug. 17^2, had a grant of an annuity of ,£2,600, d. 24 Feb. 1723 at Kensington, and was bur. at Chevening. Will |>r. 1723. II. 1721. Pmup (Stanhope), Earl Stanhope, &c., 1st s. and h.. b. 28 Dec. 1717 ; styled Viscount Mahon from April 1718 till he me. to the. pecimjc, as above, 5 Keb. 1720/1 : was (according to H. Walpole) "a determined republican" but a good mathematician and a linguist and a sound classic F.U.S. 22 Jan. 1736 ; was one of the six Karls who bore the pall at the funeral, 13 April 1751, of Frederick, Prince of Wales. He lit. 25 July 1745, at St. Geo. Han. Sip, (irisel, 1st da. of Charles Hamilton, styled Loitn Binninu, (s. ami h. ap. of Thomas, 6th E*RL OP Haddimoton [S.1) by Rachel, da. ami finally h. of George Baillie, of Jerviswood, co. Lanark. He d. at Chevening 7 and was bur. there 16 March 1786, aged 68. Will pr. .March 1786. His widow d. at Ovenden co. Kent, 28 Dec. 1811 in her 93d year and was bur. at Clievening.t 1 ') Will dat. 11 Feb. 1S05, to 1808, pr. 1812. [Philip Stanhope, dijkd Vi.scou.nt Mahon, 1st s. and h. ap. He d. unm. and v. p. at Geneva, 6 June 1763, aged 17-] III. 178G. 3. Charles (Stanhope), Earl Stanhope, dec, 2d and yst but only stirv. s. and h. b. 3 Aug. 1753 ; styled Viscount Mahon, UCt-S'S : i d. at Eton and at Geneva, being sometime an officer in the Swiss Militia ; F.K.S. 1!' Nov. 1772 ; M.P. for High Wycombe, 17SO-S6 ; sue. to the peerage, as above, 7 March 1736. He m. firstly, 19 Dec. 1774 (spec, lie.) at Hayes, CO. Kent, Hester, 1st da. of (the well known) William (Pitt!, 1st Eahl ok Chatham, by Hester, suo jure BlIDNJitt Chatham. She who was b. 19 Oct. 1755, d, s.p.m.( c ; 20 July 1780 (as Viscountess Malum) at Chevening afsd. and was iW. there, aged 24. He m. secondly, 17 March 1781, at her father's house, St. James' Westm., Louisa, da. and h. of the Hon. Henry Gkknyillk, Gov. of Barbados (yr. s. of Hester, sun jure Countess Temple), by Margaret Eleanor, da. of Joseph Hanks, of HevesLy Abbey, co. Lincoln. He d. at Chevening 15 and was bur. 24 Dec. 1S16 there aged 63. (d) Will pr. 1817.(°) His without much administrative parliamentary ability, ami wholly unfit to manage the finances of the country. . . . He showed a perfect integrity during the " South Sea " transactions. His portrait '■ after Sir G. Kneller " is engraved in "Doyle." (") Unless his gift of memory is exaggerated it must have equalled that of Lord Macaul&y. He affected extreme simplicity in dress. " Remarkable for acuteuess of understanding " — also for her charity and religion. See Wood's 41 Douglas" vol. ii, p. 736 (additions, 5»c), where her character is given at length. A copy of her will is given in the Gent. Mag, (vol. 82, pt. 1, p. 673). In the codicil, dated 18(t8, she expresses herself as " much dissatisfied with the conduct cf my grandson Philip Henry (Lord Mahon) with respect to my most honest, most worthy and most dearly beloved husband." ( c ) Of her three daughters, the eldest was the eccentric Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, b. 12 March and bap. 7 April 1776 at St. Marylebone who d. unm. in Syria 23 June 1839, having (according to Wraxall) been "proclaimed Queen of Palmyra, by some Arab tribes." ( h ) Tho' a many sided man of considerable genius, who interested himself in music, painting and mathematics, he is said to have been a more violent republican than his father. " An air of puritauism reminded the beholder of the sectaries under Cromwell rather than a young man of quality," says Wraxall ; while his " stentorian lungs " and "powerful voice " are alluded to in the " Rolliad "' as below :— " Mahon, outroaring torrents in their course .... To strike, not please, his utmost force he bends, And all his sense is at his fingers' ends." his eloquence being thus dealt with in the " Dedication," (p. 20.) " And oh what rhetoric from Mahon broke, In printed speeches, which he never spoke." His (sour-looking) portrait. " after T. Gainsborough" is engraved iu " Doyle." {") In this will, dated 1805, none of his family are mentioned, all his disposable property being left (possibly on some secret trust for them) to his executors. His real estate, however, estimated at £12,000 a year, descended to his sou and heir.