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. "Small poems of Divers sorts". University of Virginia Library. Retrieved February 2011. |chapter= ignored (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.
• Thoroton, Robert (1797). History of Nottinghamshire 1 (reprint ed.). J. Throsby. p. 292.

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.