STANHOPE OF CHEVENING MANUSCRIPTS

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STANHOPE OF CHEVENING MANUSCRIPTS

c1200-1968

https://www.kentarchives.org.uk/collections/getrecord/GB51_U1590

The Stanhope papers proper consist of the correspondence, official and literary or scientific papers of the seven Earls Stanhope, but because of their family links, especially with Pitt and Grenville, and also their ultimate inheritance of the title of the Earls of Chesterfield, members of the family collected, purchased or had copies made of many records for other branches of the family and for the families of Pitt and Grenville.

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Kent Archives Office

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Stanhope, Hester, Lady, 1776-1839

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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was the eldest child of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope. In August 1803, she moved into the home of her uncle, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to manage his household and act as his hostess and later secretary. In February 1810, Stanhope left England and travelled to through Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. Stanhope came into possession of a medieval Italian manuscript copied from the records of a monastery somewhere in S...