James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope

1. As Viscount Stanhope of Mahon. He was already a member of the House of Lords as Earl of Harrington.

References

1. "Death notice". The Times, London, Sept. 23. 1940.
2. Hart's Army list, 1903.
3. "The Army in South Africa – Troops returning home". The Times. No. 36876. London. 18 September 1902. p. 5.
4. hansard-millbanksystem.com James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope.
5. "No. 33492". The London Gazette . 7 August 1929. p. 3003.
6. Cato (1940). Guilty Men. London: Victor Gollancz. OCLC   301463537.
7. Dutton, D. J. (2006). "Guilty men (act. 1940)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70401. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 5 October 2013.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
8. Scott Kelly, "The Ghost of Neville Chamberlain: Guilty Men and the 1945 Election" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine , Conservative History Journal, Autumn 2005.
9. Geoffrey Mander, We were not all wrong – How the Labour and Liberal Parties (& also the anti-Munich Tories) strove, pre-war, for the policy of collective security against aggression – with adequate armaments to make that policy effective: the truth about the peace ballot: etc, etc. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1944).

External links

• Newspaper clippings about James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

The Right Honourable The Earl Stanhope KG DSO MC PC
Leader of the House of Lords
In office 21 February 1938 –14 May 1940

Political offices
Preceded by Frank Hodges	Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1924–1929	Succeeded by George Hall
Preceded by Charles Ammon	Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1931	Succeeded by Lord Stanley
Vacant	Under-Secretary of State for War 1931–1934	Succeeded by The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal
Preceded by Anthony Eden	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1934–1936 With: Viscount Cranborne 1935–1936	Succeeded by The Earl of Plymouth
Preceded by Hon. William Ormsby-Gore	First Commissioner of Works 1936–1937	Succeeded by Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt
Preceded by Hon. Oliver Stanley	President of the Board of Education 1937–1938	Succeeded by The Earl De La Warr
Preceded by The Viscount Halifax	Leader of the House of Lords 1938–1940	Succeeded by The Viscount Caldecote
Preceded by Duff Cooper	First Lord of the Admiralty 1938–1939	Succeeded by Winston Churchill
Preceded by The Viscount Runciman of Doxford	Lord President of the Council 1939–1940	Succeeded by Neville Chamberlain
Party political offices
Preceded by The Viscount Halifax	Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords 1938–1940	Succeeded by The Viscount Caldecote
Peerage of England
Preceded by Edward Scudamore-Stanhope	Earl of Chesterfield 1952–1967	Extinct
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Arthur Stanhope	Earl Stanhope 1905–1967	Extinct
	Viscount Stanhope of Mahon 1905–1967	Succeeded by William Stanhope