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.

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 8. Sir Thomas Stanhope 17. Ann Rawson 4. Sir John Stanhope 18&26. John Port (the younger) 9. Margaret Port 19&27. Elizabeth Giffard 2. Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield 20. Giles Allington 10. Richard Allington 21. Alice Middleton 5. Cordell Allington[6] 22. John Cordell 11. Joan Cordell 23. Emma Webb 1. Ferdinando Stanhope 24. Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon 12. George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon 25. Catherine Pole 6. Francis Hastings, Baron Hastings 26&18. John Port (the younger) 13. Dorothy Port 27&19. Elizabeth Giffard 3. Katherine Hastings 28. John Harrington 14. James Harrington[7] 29. Elizabeth Moton 7. Sarah Harrington 30. William Sydney 15. Lucy Sidney 31. Anne Pakenham

Notes

1. Brydges 1812, p. 423.
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.
3. Thoroton 1797, p. 292.
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. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
6. Brydges 1812, p. 421.
7. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Thoroton, Robert (1797). History of Nottinghamshire. 1 (reprint ed.). J. Throsby. p. 292.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brydges, Sir Egerton, ed. (1812). "Earl of Chesterfield". Collin's Peerage of England. 3. pp. 421–423.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)