On 4th February 1750 Walter Spencer-Stanhope was born to Walter Stanhope and Ann Spencer. He was baptised on 9th March 1750. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and went up to University College, Oxford, and later studied law at the Middle Temple, London.
In 1775 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 24] was elected MP Carlisle.
In 1775 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 24] inherited Cannon Hal from his uncle John Spencer, and changed his name from Stanhope to Spencer-Stanhope by Royal licence.
In 1780 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 29] was elected MP Haslemere.
On 21st October 1783 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 33] and Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 20] were married at Tynemouth, Northumberland [Map].
In 1784 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 33] was elected MP Kingston upon Hull.
On 27th May 1787 [his son] John Spencer-Stanhope was born to Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 37] and [his wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 24]. He married 1822 Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester and Jane Dutton, and had issue.
Around 1792 [his son] Edward Spencer-Stanhope aka Collingwood was born to Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 41] and [his wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 29].
In 1793 [his son] William Rodham Spencer-Stanhope was born to Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 42] and [his wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 30]. He married in or before 1837 Charlotte Pulleine.
In 1800 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 49] was elected MP Cockermouth.
In 1802 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 51] was elected MP Carlisle.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 10th April 1821 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 71] died.
In December 1850 [his former wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 87] died.
Father: Walter Stanhope 
GrandFather: William Spencer of Cannon Hall
Mother: Ann Spencer