Spencer-Stanhope is the family name of

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landed gentry who for 200 years held

Cannon Hall Cannon Hall is a country house museum located between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland some 5 miles (8 km) west of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Originally the home of the Spencer and later the Spencer-Stanhope family, it ...

, a country house in

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that since the 1950s has been a

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. The hyphenated form of the name is more common in British

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, but American sources often omit the hyphen and alphabetize by "Stanhope."

19th century

Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, several family members (by birth and marriage) were active in the

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. They were related through John Spencer Stanhope (1787–1873), a classical antiquarian, writer, and explorer, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Coke of Norfolk, 1st Earl of Leicester. John Spencer Stanhope was the son of industrialist Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1749–1822). The couple died in 1873 within a few days of each other; she on 31 October, he on 7 November. They had six children: * Sir Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1827–1911), Conservative politician. He married Elizabeth Buxton and had 11 children including: :* Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope, a

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painter and sculptor, including of church works :*Cecily Spencer-Stanhope, helped her father to create the ''Fairylands'' part of the grounds of Cannon Hall * John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (1829–1908), a noted second-generation

artist. *Anna Maria Wilhelmina married Percival André Pickering,

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. They had five children, including: :*Evelyn, the

artist known by her married surname,

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, whose husband was the artist

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. :*Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina, author of several books writing as A. M. W. Stirling under her married surname, and founder of the

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for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society. *Eliza Anne (d. 1859), who married the Rev. Richard St. John Tyrwhitt of Oxford. *Anne Alicia. *Louisa Elizabeth (1832–1867).

Sources

*Burke, Bernard. ''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London 1863. Part 2, 4th edition
p. 1417.
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for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society
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*Pratt, Charles Tiplady. ''A History of

Cawthorne Cawthorne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The village was once a centre of the iron and coal mining industry; today it is part of an affluent commuter belt west of Barnsley. A ...

''. Barnsley 1882
Online
and also here on Wikisource. * Stirling, A.M.W. ''

Coke of Norfolk Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (6 May 175430 June 1842), known as Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham, was a British politician and agricultural reformer. Born to Wenman Coke, Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby, and his wife Elizab ...

and His Friends''. New York 1908
vol. 2
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19th century

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