Arthur Philip Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope (13 September 1838 – 19 April 1905), was a

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. From 1855 to 1875 he was styled Viscount Mahon.

Career

He was a son of

Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, (30 January 180524 December 1875), styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855, was an English antiquarian and Tory politician. He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s b ...

by his wife Emily Harriet Kerrison. As Viscount Mahon, he sat for a few months of 1868 as a

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for

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and returned to the Commons as member for Suffolk East from 1870 to 1875. He was Chairman of the

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in 1875. Lord Mahon succeeded to the title of Earl Stanhope on the death of his father on 24 December 1875. He was appointed

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in December 1878, and served as

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from 1890 to 1905.

Family

He married Evelyn Pennefather, daughter of Richard Pennefather of Knockeevan,

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by his wife Lady Emily Butler, daughter of Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Glengall. They had two children: *

James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope, (11 November 1880 – 15 August 1967), styled Viscount Mahon until 1905, and known as the Earl Stanhope from 1905 until his death, was a British Conservative politician. Background Stanhope was the eld ...

(1880–1967) *Capt. Hon. Richard Philip Stanhope (16 January 1885 – 15 September 1916), married Lady Beryl le Poer Trench (d. 1957), daughter of William Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty on 13 May 1914, without issue. He was killed at the

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