Maternal Family Tree: Jane Bond -1776
In 1822 [his father] John Spencer-Stanhope [aged 34] and [his mother] Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke [aged 26] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 67] and [his grandmother] Jane Dutton.
On 20th January 1829 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope was born to John Spencer-Stanhope [aged 41] and Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke [aged 33] at Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire.
In 1850 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 20] began to study with George Frederick Watts [aged 32]. He assisted Watts in his mural decoration of Justice, a Hemicycle of Law-givers for Lincoln's Inn in London. In the autumn of 1853 Stanhope travelled to Italy with Watts with visits to Venice, Florence, and Padua.
On 31st August 1854 Captain George Frederick Dawson [aged 27] and [his future wife] Elizabeth King [aged 18] were married.
In 1856 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 26] accompanied George Frederick Watts [aged 38] and Valentine Cameron Prinsep [aged 17] on an expedition to Asia Minor to observe the excavations of the ruins of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Budrum led by Charles Newton, the Keeper of Greek Antiquities at the British Museum. Newton was a friend of Stanhope's father.
In 1857 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 27], Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 28], Edward Burne-Jones [aged 23] and William Morris [aged 22] decorated the Oxford Union Debating Hall with murals on Arthurian themes.
Life of William Morris. In the early part of the Long Vacation of 1857, Rossetti [aged 28] went down to Oxford to see his friend Benjamin Woodward, the architect. Morris, always delighted to take a day at Oxford, went with him. The long battle between the Palladian and Gothic styles for the new University Museum had been at last decided by the Oxford authorities in favour of the latter. Woodward's plans, in a style of mixed Rhenish and Venetian Gothic, had been accepted, and the museum was now in progress. Besides his principal work at the museum, he was engaged in building a debating hall for the Union Society. That hall, now the principal library, was just roofed in. In formi, the hall was a long building with apsidal ends. A narrow gallery fitted with bookshelves ran completely round it, and above the shelves was a broad belt of wall divided into ten bays, pierced by twenty six-foil circular windows, and surmounted by an open timber roof. Rossetti was at once fired with the idea of painting the space thus given. In his notions of the application of painting to architedural surfaces, Woodward, an ardent admirer and a skilled imitator of the Venetian builders, cordially concurred ; and it was at once settled that the ten bays and the whole of the ceiling should be covered with painting in tempera. The Building Committee of the Union, who had a general discretion as regards the work to be done during the Long Vacation, were induced to authorize the work without waiting to refer the matter to a general meeting of the Society. It was arranged that the paintings should forthwith be designed and carried out under Rossetti's superintendence. He himself, and other artists whom he should invite to join him, were to be the executants. The Union was to defray the expense of scaffolding and materials, and the travelling and lodging expenses of the artists, who, beyond this, were to give their services for nothing. No sooner was this settled, than Rossetti went straight back to London and issued his orders: Burne-Jones [aged 23] and Morris [aged 22] were to lay aside all other work and start on the new scheme at once. He had it all planned in his mind. The ten paintings on the walls were to be a series of scenes from the "Morte d' Arthur," and the roof above them was to be covered with a floriated design. For the pidures, ten men had to be found, each of whom should execute one bay, and the work, in the first enthusiasm, was estimated as a matter of six weeks or so. Arthur Hughes [aged 24], Spencer Stanhope [aged 27], Val Prinsep [aged 18], and Hungerford Pollen [aged 36], were drawn into the scheme and agreed to take a picture each; Madox Brown [aged 35] was also asked to execute one, but declined. Rossetti undertook to do two, or if possible three, himself, and Morris and Burne-Jones were each to do one under his eye and with his guidance : eight or nine of the ten bays were thus accounted for, and the remainder of the space was for the moment left to chance.
1859. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 29]. "Thoughts of the Past".
On 10th January 1859 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 29] and Elizabeth King [aged 23] were married. She the widow of Captain George Frederick Dawson. They lived at Hillhouse, Cawthorne until their house Sandroyd House, Cobham was completed.
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Around 1860. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 30]. "Robins of Modern Times".
In 1860 [his daughter] Mary Spencer-Stanhope was born to John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 30] and [his wife] Elizabeth King [aged 24]. She died aged seven in 1867.
1863. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 33]. "Juliet and her Nurse".
1864. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 34]. "Rispah". See The Athenæum, Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 21, Verses 8-11 and The Illustrated London News.
1864. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 34]. "Penelope". See The Athenæum and The Illustrated London News
The Athenaeum 1864. 14th May 1864. Mr. R. S. Stanhope [aged 35] may be styled the youngest in the list of artists who establish themselves this: year. His Rispa (No. 33) is a very expressive and poetical representation of the well known theme of the daughter of Aiah watching the bodies of her sons and those of the sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul. The face of the woman is admirably conceived. Penelope (476), by the same, — wife of Ulysses at her loom, — has much execellent colour in its flesh; the treatment of the draperies, although rather thin, is original and careful. The face of the woman in blue does Mr. Stanhope great credit [?] in painting and conception. In these pictures the artist has been eminently successful with the backgrounds, not alone in the vigorous colour they exhibit, but in the pathetic and apt expressiveness which fits them to the subjects.
In 1867 [his daughter] Mary Spencer-Stanhope [aged 7] died of scarlet fever. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence. Her headstone was designed by her father.
Around 1872. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 42]. "Procris and Cephalus".
On 30th October 1873 [his mother] Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke [aged 78] died.
On 8th November 1873 [his father] John Spencer-Stanhope [aged 86] died. [his brother] Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 45] inherited Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire.
Between 1875 and 1879 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 45] was involved with his most important artistic accomplishment, the twelve mural decorations for the Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels at Marlborough College.
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Around 1877. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 47]. "Love and the Maiden".
1880. Evelyn de Morgan aka Mary Evelyn Pickering [aged 24]. Portrait of her uncle "John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 50]".
In 1880 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 50] moved to Florence, Tuscany.
Around 1880. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 50]. "Morgan le Fay".
Before 1908. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 78]. "Patience Smiling at Grief".
Before 1908. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 78]. "Andromeda".
On 2nd August 1908 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope [aged 79] died at the Villa Nutti, Bellosguardo [Map]. He was buried in the Cimitero degli Allori, Florence.
In 1920 [his former wife] Elizabeth King [aged 84] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 19 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Stanhope 
Grandfather: Walter Spencer-Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Spencer of Cannon Hall
Great x 1 Grandmother: Ann Spencer
father: John Spencer-Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: Wingate Pulleine of Carleton Hall
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Babington Pulleine
Grandmother: Mary Winifred Pulleine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Collingwood
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Collingwood
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Collingwood of Byker and Dissington
Great x 1 Grandmother: Winifred Collingwood
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Roddam of Roddam and Chirton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Roddam
John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope 13 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Roberts
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gabriel Roberts
Great x 4 Grandmother: Martha Dashwood 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Roberts 15 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Wenman 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Wenman 14 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fettiplace 13 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Wenman Roberts aka Coke 
10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Coke 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Coke 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Osborne 
10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Coke 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Newton 3rd Baronet 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Carey Newton 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Abigail Heveningham 
10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Grandfather: Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Chamberlayne of Wardington
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Chamberlayne
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Chamberlayne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Rear-Admiral Thomas Hardy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Constance Hardy
mother: Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke 12 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Naper
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Naper
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Lenox Dutton 12 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Dutton 
12 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Dutton 1st Baronet 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Duncombe 
9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Dutton 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Barwick
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Barwick Lady Dutton
Grandmother: Jane Dutton 13 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Christopher Bond
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Bond