Ferdinando Stanhope

Ferdinando Stanhope (died 1643) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1643. He died fighting for the Royalist army during the English Civil War.

Biography

Stanhope was born at Shelford Manor, Nottinghamshire. He was the ninth, (but fourth surviving) son of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield and his wife Catherine, daughter of Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings.^[1]

In November 1640, Stanhope was an elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Long Parliament.^[2] At the start of the Civil War and after the Battle of Edgehill, he attended King Charles I at Oxford in 1642, where among others of the King's supporters, he was made a doctor of laws.^[1] He was a colonel of the King's Horse, and was killed in 1643 while organising assistance to put out a fire at a house in Bridgeford that had been started accidentally by a Parliamentary soldier.^[3] He was buried at Shelford church among his ancestors.^{[citation needed]}

Sir Aston Cokain wrote an epitaph for his cousin Ferdinand Stanhope:^[4]

:Here underneath this monumental Stone
Lie Honour, Youth, and Beauty all in One:

For Ferdinando Stanhope here doth rest,

Of all those Three the most unequal'd Test.

He was too handsome and too stout to be

Met face to face by any Enemy;

Therefore his foe (full for his death inclin'd)

Stole basely near, and shot him through behind.
— Aston Cokain.^[5]

Family

Stanhope married Lettice Ferrers, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth Castle and left a daughter Anne.^[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Ferdinando Stanhope

16. Sir Michael Stanhope^{[citation needed]}

8. Sir Thomas Stanhope

17. Ann Rawson^{[citation needed]}

4. Sir John Stanhope

18&26. John Port (the younger)^{[citation needed]}

9. Margaret Port

19&27. Elizabeth Giffard^{[citation needed]}

2. Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield

20. Giles Allington^{[citation needed]}

10. Richard Allington

21. Alice Middleton^{[citation needed]}

5. Cordell Allington^[6]

22. John Cordell^{[citation needed]}

11. Joan Cordell

23. Emma Webb^{[citation needed]}

1. Ferdinando Stanhope

24. Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon^{[citation needed]}

12. George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon

25. Catherine Pole^{[citation needed]}

6. Francis Hastings, Baron Hastings

26&18. John Port (the younger)^{[citation needed]}

13. Dorothy Port

27&19. Elizabeth Giffard^{[citation needed]}

3. Katherine Hastings

28. John Harrington^{[citation needed]}

14. James Harrington^[7]

29. Elizabeth Moton^{[citation needed]}

7. Sarah Harrington

30. William Sydney^{[citation needed]}

15. Lucy Sidney

31. Anne Pakenham^{[citation needed]}

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Brydges 1812, p. 423.
^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
^ Thoroton 1797, p. 292.
^ Cokain 1972, pp. 3, 4.
^ Aston Cokain. "An Epitaph of Colonel An Epitaph of Colonel Ferdinand Stanhope Son to the Earl of Chesterfield, who was slain about Shelford, and lies there buried.". Small poems of Divers sorts. Retrieved February 2011 – via University of Virginia Library. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ Brydges 1812, p. 421.
^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~satcover/aqwg37.htm

References

Cokain, Aston (1972) [1658]. The Dramatic Works of Sir Aston Cokain. Ayer Publishing. pp. 3, 4. ISBN 0-405-08365-3. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Thoroton, Robert (1797). History of Nottinghamshire. Vol. 1 (reprint ed.). J. Throsby. p. 292. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Attribution

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Brydges, Sir Egerton, ed. (1812). "Earl of Chesterfield". Collin's Peerage of England. Vol. 3. pp. 421–423. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Simon Archer George Abbot	Member of Parliament for Tamworth 1640–1643 With: Henry Wilmot	Succeeded by George Abbot Sir Peter Wentworth

[FOOTNOTEBrydges1812423-1] Brydges 1812, p. 423.

[Willis-2] Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.

[FOOTNOTEThoroton1797292-3] Thoroton 1797, p. 292.

[FOOTNOTECokain19723,_4-4] Cokain 1972, pp. 3, 4.

[5] Aston Cokain. "An Epitaph of Colonel An Epitaph of Colonel Ferdinand Stanhope Son to the Earl of Chesterfield, who was slain about Shelford, and lies there buried.". Small poems of Divers sorts. Retrieved February 2011 – via University of Virginia Library. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[FOOTNOTEBrydges1812421-6] Brydges 1812, p. 421.

[7] ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~satcover/aqwg37.htm

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