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 Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet Hay of Smithfield, on 6 August 1851 at St. Johns church,

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, Scotland. Together they had six sons, including

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and

Henry Athole Scudamore-Stanhope, 11th Earl of Chesterfield 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 and Dorothe ...

. In 1874, he inherited the baronetcy and the estate of

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in Herefordshire, previously the property of the deranged

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, which had been settled in favour of his father after years of litigation. In 1883, he succeeded his fourth cousin once removed, George Philip Stanhope, 8th Earl of Chesterfield, as 9th Earl. He died on 21 January 1887 at the Victoria Hotel in

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. He was succeeded as 10th Earl by his first son, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope.

References

Thepeerage.com
1821 births 1887 deaths

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