1720 - 19th Sep 1783
Baptised 12 December 1720. 4th son of the Rev. Michael Stanhope, canon of St. Paul’s and later of Windsor, (and a distant cousin of Philip, 4th Earl of Chesterfield) and Penelope, daughter of Sir Salathiel Lovell. He never married.
Held various relatively minor government posts; but was also agent for Jamaica 1757-1763.
Judd identified him as a 'West Indian' MP.
Entry by Mary M. Drummond in History of Parliament online; Gerrit P. Judd IV, Members of Parliament 1734-1832 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1955).
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Legal Education
Lincoln's Inn [1743-1747 ]
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Occupation
Politician
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Political (1) |
MP
Tory / West India interest
election →
Winchester Hampshire
1774 - 1783 |
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Winchester, Hampshire, Wessex, England
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Lovell Stanhope', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658309 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
