About Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
Lived 1633 – 1714 (aged 80–81). Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield was an English and British writer.
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield PC FRS (1634 – 28 January 1714) was a peer in the peerage of England.
Personal life He was the son of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope and his wife, Katherine Wotton. Chesterfield subsequently married Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond and his wife, Elizabeth Preston.
Career He was Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Braganza (1662–1665) and a member of her Council (1670). He was Colonel of a regiment of foot (1667, 1682), a Privy Councillor (1681) and the Warden of the royal forests south of Trent (1679). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1708. He died at his home in Middlesex, and was buried in Shelford, Nottinghamshire.
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Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield was born in 1633.
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Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield died on 28 January 1714.
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