John Spencer Stanhope

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
  1. Sir Bernard Burke (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. Colburn and Company. p. 1281.
  2. Joseph Foster (1888). Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. IV. Parker & Co. p. 1342.
  3. Speculative Society of Edinburgh (1905). The History of the Speculative Society, 1764–1904. Internet Archive. Printed for the Society by T. and A. Constable. p. 16. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  4. 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.
  5. John Spencer-Stanhope (1817). Topography illustrative of the battle of Platæa. J. Murray. p. 11.
  6. 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.
  7. John Burke (1833). A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 468.
  8. 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.
  9. Charles T. Pratt (1882). "Chapter IV: Cannon Hall". History of Cawthorne. p. 25.
  10. Charles Roger Dod (1855). Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland. S. Low, Marston & Company. p. 668.
  11. 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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