Stenbock, Stanislaus Eric, Count, 1860-1895

Author and poet, Count Stanislaus Erik Stenbock was born in 1860 in Cheltenham, England. His father died shorly after his birth, and upon the death of his grandfather he gained control of the family estate and title in Estonia where he lived from 1885 to 1887.

Stenbock attended Balliol College, Oxford, although he never completed a degree. There he met Frank Costelloe, who later became the first husband of Mary Berenson. Costelloe was his lawyer and advisor, and Stenbock was a close friend of the Costelloe family. In literary and social circles he was associated with Cénacle, a group of literary dandies.

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