Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield 1755-1815

Paternal Family Tree: Stanhope

Before 18th March 1748 [his father] Arthur Charles Stanhope [aged 32] and [his step-mother] Mary Thornhagh were married.

On 25th August 1750 [his father] Arthur Charles Stanhope [aged 35] and [his mother] Margaret Headlam [aged 21] were married.

On 10th November 1755 Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield was born to Arthur Charles Stanhope [aged 40] and Margaret Headlam [aged 26].

On 3rd January 1764 [his mother] Margaret Headlam [aged 35] died.

In 1767 [his father] Arthur Charles Stanhope [aged 51] and [his step-mother] Frances Board [aged 20] were married. The difference in their ages was 31 years.

On 9th March 1770 [his father] Arthur Charles Stanhope [aged 54] died.

On 20th August 1777 Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield [aged 21] and Anne Thistlethwayte Countess Chesterfield were married. She by marriage Countess Chesterfield.

Around 1778 Thomas Gainsborough [aged 50]. Portrait of Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield [aged 22].

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Around 1781 [his daughter] Harriet Stanhope was born to Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield [aged 25] and [his wife] Anne Thistlethwayte Countess Chesterfield.

In October 1798 [his wife] Anne Thistlethwayte Countess Chesterfield died.

On 2nd May 1799 Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield [aged 43] and Henrietta Thynne [aged 36] were married at Grosvenor Street. She the daughter of Thomas Thynne 1st Marquess of Bath and Elizabeth Bentinck Marchioness Bath [aged 63].

In 1803 [his daughter] Harriet Stanhope [aged 22] died.

In 1805 King George III of Great Britain and Ireland [aged 66] created new Garter Knights as follows:

628th George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery [aged 45],

629th George Finch 9th Earl Winchilsea 4th Earl Nottingham [aged 52],

630th Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield [aged 49],

631st George Legge 3rd Earl Dartmouth [aged 49].

On 23rd May 1805 [his son] George Stanhope 6th Earl Chesterfield was born to Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield [aged 49] and [his wife] Henrietta Thynne [aged 42]. He married 1830 his fourth cousin Anne Weld-Forester Countess Chesterfield, daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester 1st Baron Forester and Katherine Mary Manners Baroness Forester, and had issue.

On 31st May 1813 [his wife] Henrietta Thynne [aged 50] died.

On 29th August 1815 Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield [aged 59] died at Chesterfield House. His son George [aged 10] succeeded 6th Earl Chesterfield, 6th Baron Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire.

[his daughter] Georgiana Stanhope was born to Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield and Henrietta Thynne. She married 14th November 1820 Frederick Richard West.

Royal Ancestors of Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield 1755-1815

Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings Godwinson: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Harold II of England

Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland

Kings France: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Kings Spain: Great x 18 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon

Ancestors of Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield 1755-1815

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stanhope 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Stanhope 1st Earl Chesterfield 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Cordelia Alington

Great x 2 Grandfather: Arthur Stanhope 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Hastings 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Hastings Countess Chesterfield 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Harrington 19 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks

Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Stanhope 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

Grandfather: Michael Stanhope 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

father: Arthur Charles Stanhope 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

Grandmother: Penelope Lovell

Philip Stanhope 5th Earl Chesterfield 12 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England

Grandfather: Charles Headlam of Kexby in Yorkshire

mother: Margaret Headlam