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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. [1] [2] Biography. He was the third and youngest son of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope. [3] .
long-familiar people and events. Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. James Stanhope MP had access to a remarkable range of famous walls. He was nephew to William Pitt the Younger, brother to Lady Hester Stanhope, heir to the botanist Sir Joseph Banks, aide-de-camp to Sir John Moore and later to Prince Frederick, “the Grand Old Duke of York”.
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.
b. 7 Sept. 1788, 3rd s. of Charles Stanhope †, 3rd Earl Stanhope, by 2nd w. Louisa, da. and h. of Hon. Henry Grenville † , gov. Barbados; bro. of Philip Henry Stanhope, Visct. Mahon *. educ. privately by Rev. Jeremiah Joyce, his father’s secretary; after 1802 by Rev. John Stonard.
Maj. Hon. Charles Banks Stanhope (3 June 1785 – 16 January 1809), aide-de-camp to John Moore. He was killed at the Battle of Corunna; Lt Col Hon. James Hamilton Stanhope (1788–1825) captain and lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Foot Guards. Death and succession Chevening House, Kent
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.
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.
