George Stanhope, sixth earl Chesterfield

(1805-1866)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chesterfield, George Stanhope, Earl of, 1805-1866 LBT ID: LdChest6 VIAF ID: 88440213 LOC ID: nb2009010650	B/BAP: 1805-05-23 DIED: 1866-06-01
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Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he succeeded his father in 1815 and voted with the Tories in the House of Lords.
REFERENCES TO George Stanhope, sixth earl Chesterfield: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 10 March 1829 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, October 1830 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 2: Literary Labour Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. 6: Periodical Press Found 1: ¶ 12 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington V Found 1: ¶ 13 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. VIII: 1829 Ch. IX: 1830-31