Philip Stanhope
Philip Stanhope may refer to:Philip Stanhope, English Civil War Royalist colonel Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield (1584–1656), English peer Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634–1714), English peer, grandson of the 1st Earl Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield (1673–1726), English peer, son of the 2nd Earl Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1793), English peer, son of the 3rd Earl Philip Stanhope (diplomat) (1732–1768), illegitimate son of the 4th Earl of Chesterfield and recipient of his Letters Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield (1755–1815), British Ambassador to Spain, 1784–1786, and Master of the Mint, 1789–1790, adopted son of the 4th Earl Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope (1714–1786), son of the 1st Earl Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope (1781–1855), English politician Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805–1875), English historian, son of the 4th Earl Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (1847–1923), British Liberal politician
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1584
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Birth1656
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- father:
- Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield
- mother:
- Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield
- spouse:
- Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, Madelina Elizabeth du Bouchet
- children:
- Philip Stanhope
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