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The Hon. Colonel James Hamilton Stanhope (1788–1825), was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. He was a Member of Parliament for Buckingham, 1817–1818, Fowey, 1818–1819, and Dartmouth, 1822–1825.
From these pages emerges a more nuanced and interesting figure than a mere observer of his times. James Hamilton Stanhope, in contrast to his father, is a figure of the Romantic era, a soldier, artist, and poet.
Dates. BUCKINGHAM. 23 June 1817 - 1818. FOWEY. 1818 - 5 Mar. 1819. DARTMOUTH. 8 Apr. 1822 - 5 Mar. 1825. Family and Education. b. 7 Sept. 1788, 3rd s. of Charles Stanhope †, 3rd Earl Stanhope, by 2nd w.
Biography. Stanhope, who had been damaged physically by the musket ball which lodged against his spine at the siege of Saint Sebastian in 1813, and emotionally by his unorthodox upbringing at the hands of his eccentric father, failed to find a seat in 1820.
James Hamilton Stanhope (1788-1825) was the youngest son of the third Earl Stanhope, half-brother to Lady Hester Stanhope and personally present at the deaths of both Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1806 and General Sir John Moore in Corunna in 1809.
Colonel James Hamilton Stanhope (1788–1825), was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. He was a Member of Parliament for Buckingham, 1817–1818, Fowey, 1818–1819, and Dartmouth 1822–1825. He was the third and youngest son of Charles Stanhope, 3rd...
By Mark Guscin. This book was most definitely a desideratum in the history of Georgian and Regency England, as there was previously no biography at all of James Hamilton Stanhope, who lived with some of the most relevant people of the times and through some of the most significant events of the early nineteenth century.
