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English landowner and antiquarian
John Spencer Stanhope (1787–1873) was an English landowner and
antiquarian .
Life
The son of
Walter Spencer-Stanhope , he was born 27 May 1787.
[1] He matriculated at
Christ Church, Oxford in 1804.
[2] Around 1807 he was in Edinburgh, and joined the
Speculative Society .
[3]
Spencer Stanhope, after travel, spent the years 1810 to 1813 as a French prisoner of war of the French, taken captive by bad faith. He was detained for two years in
Verdun , allowed to visit Paris, and then set free.
[4] He travelled with
Thomas Allason in Greece. Based on researches carried out there, he published Topography illustrative of the Battle of Plataea in 1817.
[5] In 1816 he had added to the
Elgin Marbles in the
British Museum a piece of Parthenon frieze he had purchased in Greece.
[6]
With an estate also at
Horsforth , Spencer Stanhope resided at
Cannon Hall , in Yorkshire.
[7] He died on 8 November 1873.
[8] He was a Fellow of the
Royal Society (FRS) and
Society of Antiquaries of London .
[9]
Family
Stanhope married in 1822 Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, daughter of
Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester .
[10]
Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1827–1911) and
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope were their sons. Of four daughters,
[11]
Anne Alicia and Louisa Elizabeth were unmarried.
[11]
Notes
^ Sir Bernard Burke (1852).
A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 . Colburn and Company. p. 1281.
^
Foster, Joseph (1888–1892).
"Stanhope, John Spencer" .
Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via
Wikisource .
^ Speculative Society of Edinburgh (1905).
The History of the Speculative Society, 1764–1904 . Printed for the Society by T. and A. Constable. p. 16. Retrieved 10 September 2015 – via
Internet Archive .
^
John Douglas Cook ;
Philip Harwood ;
Walter Herries Pollock ; Frank Harris; Harold Hodge (1867).
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art . J. W. Parker and Son. p. 85.
^ John Spencer-Stanhope (1817).
Topography illustrative of the battle of Platæa . J. Murray. p.
11 .
^ Holger Hoock (2010).
Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 . Profile Books. pp. 228–9.
ISBN
978-1-86197-859-2 .
^ John Burke (1833).
A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland . p.
468 .
^ Northumberland county history committee (1930). A History of Northumberland. Issued Under the Direction of the Northumberland County History Committee . A. Reid, sons & Company; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Company, limited. p. 176.
^ Charles T. Pratt (1882).
"Chapter IV: Cannon Hall" . History of Cawthorne . p. 25.
^
Charles Roger Dod (1855).
Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland . S. Low, Marston & Company. p.
668 .
^
a
b
Stirling, A. M. W. (1908).
"Coke of Norfolk and His Friends; the life of Thomas William Coke, first earl of Leicester of Holkham, containing an account of his ancestry, surroundings, public services & private friendships & including many unpublished letters from noted men of his day, English & American" .
Internet Archive . New York: John Lane company. pp. 530–1. Retrieved 10 September 2015 .
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