Philip Stanhope 1584-1656
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Philip STANHOPE, 1st Earl of Chesterfield 1584-1656
Biographical Note
Son of Sir John Stanhope (d.1609). Knighted in 1605; purchased the barony of Shelford in 1616; created Earl of Chesterfield in 1628. A royalist, Stanhope's house was sacked by parliamentary troops during the civil war. He was imprisoned and died in captivity in 1656.
Books
Gave 55 books to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, ca.1630.
Characteristic Markings
Books with his armorial stamp survive.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Jayne, S. Library catalogues of the English renaissance. Godalming, 1983, 156.
- Seddon, P. R. "Stanhope, Philip, first earl of Chesterfield (1583/4–1656), royalist nobleman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.