Stanhope essay prize
The Stanhope essay prize was an undergraduate history essay prize created at Balliol College, Oxford, by Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope in 1855.
Notable winners
Notable Stanhope Prize winners:
* John Richard Magrath, 1860
* Francis J ...
, at Oxford University
* Stanhope College, a fictional college attended by
Supergirl
Supergirl is the name of several fictional superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The original, current, and most well known Supergirl is Kara Zor-El, the cousin of superhero Superman. The character made her fir ...
Earl Stanhope
Earl Stanhope ()Debrett's Correct Form, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 1976, pg 408 was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The earldom was created in 1718 for Major General James Stanhope,Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Chevening', in The History and To ...
, a hereditary title held by seven people since 1718
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Spencer-Stanhope family
Spencer-Stanhope is the family name of British landed gentry who for 200 years held Cannon Hall, a country house in South Yorkshire that since the 1950s has been a museum. The hyphenated form of the name is more common in British orthography, ...
, a family of British landed gentry
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Earl of Harrington
Earl of Harrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was created in 1742.
History
The earldom of Harrington was granted in 1742 to William Stanhope, 1st Baron Harrington, the former Secretary of State and then Lord President of ...
, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain
Places
Australia
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Stanhope, Victoria
Stanhope is a town in north central Victoria, Australia. Stanhope is from Shepparton. It lies north of the state capital Melbourne and south west of Canberra the capital city of Australia. At the , Stanhope had a population of 828.
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Stanhope Gardens, New South Wales
Stanhope Gardens is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Stanhope Gardens is located 31 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of City of Blacktown.
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Stanhope, Newfoundland and Labrador
Stanhope is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Geography
Stanhope is in Newfoundland within Subdivision F of Division No. 8.
Demographics
As a designated place in the 2016 ...
, Canada
UK
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Stanhope, County Durham
Stanhope is a market town and civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It lies on the River Wear between Eastgate and Frosterley, in the north-east of Weardale. The main A689 road over the Penni ...
, England
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Stanhope, Kent
Stanhope is a small urban civil parish and neighbourhood of Ashford in the Ashford borough of Kent, England. It is a residential estate built in the 1960s on the southern edge of the town. It is currently the subject of phased re-development and ...
, England
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Stanhope, Peeblesshire
Stanhope is a small settlement in the Scottish Borders region. It is situated in the parish of Drumelzier in Peeblesshire, in the valley of the River Tweed.
The Murray family acquired and established a Barony at Stanhope in 1634 as part of an e ...
Stanhope, Kentucky
Stanhope is an unincorporated community within Webster County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It bord ...
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Stanhope, New Jersey
Stanhope is a borough in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 3,610,Stanhope, Ohio
* Stanhope, a Mississippi landmark
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Stanhope Hotel
995 Fifth Avenue is a 16-story co-op apartment building at 995 Fifth Avenue and East 81st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building ...
, in New York City
In transportation
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Stanhope (carriage)
The stanhope was a gig, buggy, or light phaeton, typically having a high seat for one person and closed back. It was named after Captain Hon. Henry FitzRoy Stanhope (ca. 1754 - 1828, son of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington), a well-known ...
, a horse-drawn gig, buggy or light phaeton
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Stanhope (railways)
The Railway Regulation Act 1844 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom providing a minimum standard for rail passenger travel. It provided compulsory services at a price affordable to poorer people to enable them to travel to find w ...
, third class passenger vehicles on early British railways
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Stanhope body
In automotive use, the Stanhope is a car body style characterized by its single bench seat mounted at the center, folding cloth top, and a dashboard at the front. These vehicles were built from approximately 1900 to 1910. The design was derived ...
, a car body style
** Stanhope, an automobile manufactured from 1904 to 1906 by the
Twyford Motor Car Company Introduction
Robert E. Twyford had an important role in the development of the automobile. He originally started out as a building contractor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but later turned to developing automobiles. In 1900, the patent office gr ...
Other uses
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Stanhope (optical bijou)
Stanhopes or Stanho-scopes are optical devices that enable the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope.Focal encyclopedia of photography' By Michael R. Peres Focal Press, 2007
, a type of photographic lens used in novelty collectibles
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Stanhopea
''Stanhopea'' is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) from Central and South America. The abbreviation used in horticultural trade is ''Stan.'' The genus is named for the 4th Earl of Stanhope (Philip Henry Stanhope) (1781-1855), president ...
'', a genus of the orchid family
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Stanhope plc
Stanhope may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
* Stanhope essay prize, at Oxford University
* Stanhope College, a fictional college attended by Supergirl
People
* Stanhope (name), a surname and given name
* Earl Stanhope, a hereditary title ...
, English property developer
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Stanhope press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the c ...
, an early cast iron printing press
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First Stanhope–Sunderland Ministry
First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1).
First or 1st may also refer to:
*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
Arts and media Music
* 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec ...