Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope

(1776-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Stanhope, Hester Lucy, Lady, 1776-1839 NRA: Stanhope Lady Hester Lucy (1776-1839) Traveller DNB: Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy (1776-1839), traveller LBT ID: HeStanh1839 VIAF ID: 64019838 LOC ID: n80056889	B/BAP: 1776-03-12 DIED: 1839-06-23
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Oriental traveler; daughter of Charles Stanhope and niece of William Pitt the younger; she departed England for Egypt and Palmyra in 1810, settled in Lebanon, and never returned.
REFERENCES TO Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope: Robert Southey to Samuel Rogers, 21 September 1823 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 12 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 37 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1804-05 Found 1: ¶ 36 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XIV. Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter XV. Found 1: ¶ 2 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter X. 1822-24. Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) BEAU BRUMMELL Found 1: ¶ 2