The son of Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington. Thomas Creevey reports that he was court-martialled “for doing Lord Yarmouth out of a large sum at play.”

REFERENCES TO Augustus Stanhope:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 25 November 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)