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Philip Stanhope by Roubiliac, 1745, Victoria and Albert Museum. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, KG, PC (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time.
Philip Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield was a British statesman, diplomat, and wit, chiefly remembered as the author of Letters to His Son and Letters to His Godson—guides to manners, the art of pleasing, and the art of worldly success.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4.º Conde de Chesterfield (Londres, 22 de setembro de 1694 – Londres, 24 de março de 1773) foi um político e escritor inglês. Ver também
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Philip Stanhope may refer to: Philip Stanhope (Royalist officer) (died 1645), 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.
He was the son of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope and his wife, Katherine Wotton. He inherited the title of Earl of Chesterfield on the death of his grandfather in 1656. He was educated by Poliander, Professor of Divinity at Leyden (1640) and at the Prince of Orange's College at Breda.
Stanhope is known through his father’s famous letters which he had to endure. ‘His success in the world is now the only object I have in it’, wrote Chesterfield to a friend in 1751.3 And to Stanhope in 1748: ‘I would have you be ... perfect.
