Henry Athole Scudamore-Stanhope, 11th Earl of Chesterfield (29 May 1855 – 2 November 1935) was a British Royal Navy officer and nobleman. Stanhope was the second son of

Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, DL, JP (8 April 1821 – 21 January 1887) was a British peer. Life and family He was the eldest of four sons of Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 2nd Baronet. He married Do ...

and Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet, of Smithfield. He joined the Navy in 1869. As lieutenant of the flagship HMS Alexandra he served with the Naval Brigade landed for service in the

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with the

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for the relief of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1884–85. He aftwards commanded the Lotus on the Nile, and received the Egyptian medal with clasp and the

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's bronze star. He was promoted to command in 1892, and served in the Naval Intelligence Department from January, 1894, to November, 1896. He was in command of the

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HMS ''Beagle'', serving on the

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until it returned to Portsmouth to pay off on 14 March 1900. He retired from the navy with the rank of

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in 1905. In January, 1933, he succeeded his brother as eleventh earl. Lord Chesterfield died unmarried on 2 November 1935 and was buried at Holme Lacy Church, Herefordshire on 7 November. He was succeeded by his nephew, Edward Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, the only son of his brother, ''The Honourable'' Evelyn Scudamore-Stanhope.

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