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 i86 CHESTERFIELD 1 871), of which the Prince, after a severe illness, recovered, but of which the Earl died, unm., at Bretby Hall, i Dec. i87i,(^) aged 40. Will dat. 6 May 1871, pr. 26 Jan. 1872, under ^80,000. VIII. 1 871. 8. George Philip (Stanhope), Earl of Chester- field, &c., cousin and h. male, being only s. and h. of Charles George S., Capt. 29th Foot, by Jane, ist da. of Sir James Gal- BRAiTH, which Charles George was yst. s. of Rear Admiral John S., s. and h. of Ferdinand S., 4th s. of Michael S., D.D., (abovenamed) 2nd s. of Charles S., the 3rd s. of Arthur S., both of Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, the said Arthur being (as afsd.) nth s. of Philip, the ist Earl. He was i. 29 Nov. 1822; was Ensign 29th Foot, 1841; Lieut. Apr. to July 1842. On 7 July 1873, his claim to the Earldom, tfc, was admitted by the House of Lords. He was of Rockwood, near Strabane, co. Tyrone. He m., istly, 8 Apr. 1856, Marianne, da. of William Roche.('') She </. s.p.s., from an overdose of laudanum, at the Alma Hotel, Edinburgh, 18 Dec. 1875, aged 38, and was Ipur. in the Dean Cemetery there. He m., 2ndly, 7 Mar. 1877, Catherine Jane Jarvis, da. of John Hildebrand Bond, of Belfast. She d. s.p., 3 Feb. 1880, at Rockwood afsd. He tn., 3rdly,7 Dec. 1882, Agnes, da. of James Payne, of Manchester. He d. after a long illness, s.D.s., 19 Oct. 1883, at Killendarragh, near LifFord, co. Donegal, aged nearly 6 !.('') Will pr. at Londonderry, resealed in London, 22 Mar. 1884, under ^^4,500 [E. and I.]. His widow was living 19 12. IX. 1883. 9. Henry Edwyn Chandos (Scudamore-Stanhope), Earl of Chesterfield, i^c., cousin and h. male, beings, and h. of Sir Edw).'n Francis Stanhope, afterwards (1827) Scudamore-Stan- hope, Bart., by Mary, da. ofThomasDowELL,of Parker's Well, Devon, which Edwyn Francis was s. and h. of Sir Henry Edwyn S., Bart, (so cr. 13 Nov. 1807), only s. and h. of Edwin Francis S., only s. and h. of Charles S., 5th s. of another Charles S., the 3rd s. of Arthur S., both of Mansfield Wood- house, Notts (as abovementioned), the said Arthur being (as afsd.) nth s. of Philip, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. He was b. 8 Apr., and bap. 24 May 1821, at Teignmouth, Devon, and by Royal lie, 17 Jan. 1827 (granted to {") His only sister and h., Evelyn, b. 3 Nov. 1834, m., 5 Sep. 186 1 (as his 1st wife), Henry Howard Molyneux (Herbert), 4th Earl of Carnarvon, and d. 25 Jan. 1875, leaving issue. To this lady and to her descendants, Bretby and other the estates of the Stanhopes passed, which, considering that they had been inherited as heirs male by this cadet line, to the exclusion of the heirs general of the ist Earl, some 60 years previously, seems somewhat hard on the inheritors in and after I 871 ot this ancient Earldom, who are the heirs male of the 1st Earl, whereas the present (19 1 2) owners of the estates are neither the heirs male, nor heirs general of the ist Earl. (^) Their only s., Philip Laurence John Stanhope, b. 8 Dec. 1857, <^. ""-P-y ^ ^^P* i860. V.G. (') He took no part in public life, but is described in Who's JVho as a Conservative. V.G.