Philip Henry Stanhope,5th Earl Stanhope,FRS (30 January 1805–24 December 1875),styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855,was an English antiquarian and Tory politician. He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s but is best remembered for his contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings.
A further little work was The Forty-Five a narrative of the Jacobite rising of 1745 extracted from his "History of England." A new edition of this work was published in London by John Murray,Albemarle St.,in 1869,which includes some letters of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
The two histories and the Life of William Pitt were considered of great importance on account of Stanhope's unique access to manuscript authorities on Pitt the Elder's life.[5] His records of the Duke of Wellington's remarks during his frequent visits were also considered of great use to the historian as a substitute for Wellington's never-written memoirs. They were secretly transcribed because of Wellington's famous antagonism to the "truth" of recollected history. He also edited the letters that his distant cousin,Philip Stanhope,4th Earl of Chesterfield,had written to his natural son,Philip. They were published between 1845 and 1853.
Stanhope's position as an historian was already established when he succeeded to the earldom in 1855,and in 1872 he was made an honorary associate of the Institute of France.[5]
Lord Mahon,1846
Family
Lord Stanhope married Emily Harriet Kerrison,daughter of General Sir Edward Kerrison,1st Baronet,in 1834.[14] She died in December 1873.[2] They had four sons and one daughter:
Stanhope survived her by two years and died at Merivale,Bournemouth,Hampshire,[1] in December 1875,aged 70. He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son,Arthur.[5]
Pine, L. G. (1972), The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms, London: Heraldry Today, p.67
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