James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
Philip Dormer Chesterfield, 4th Earl of.
Charles , 3rd Earl. 1753–1816, British radical politician and scientist. His inventions included two calculating machines, a microscope lens, and a stereotyping machine
his grandfather, James , 1st Earl. 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman; George I's chief minister (1717–21). He fought under Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14) and negotiated the Triple Alliance with France and Holland (1717)
1795–1805; named after Fitzroy Stanhope (1787–1864), British clergyman
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Away she went, harness, shafts, and all, leaving the stanhope in the ditch, and sending Jack and me flying, like experimental fifty-sixes in the marshes at Woolwich, halfway across the meadow.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
It seemed an eternity before there was the welcome sound of a horse's hoofs in the lane, which drew nearer until a stanhope came in sight, containing Colonel Mandeville, a friend, and a groom.
From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.
Then he mounted the stile, and entered the field, a gun in his hand, which the groom had handed him from the stanhope.
From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.
The stanhope is all to atoms, and the farmer claims compensation for the gate.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
Perhaps the most perfect thing in the world, however, is a St. James's-street stanhope or cabriolet, with its dandy owner on the whip-seat, and the "tiger" beside him.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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