When Philip Stanhope 1st Earl of Chesterfield was born about 1584, in Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir John Baronet Stanhope Van Shelford, was 28 and his mother, Cordelia Allington, was 23. He married Katherine Hastings in 1605, in Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 13 sons and 3 daughters. He was buried in Holborn St Alban the Martyr Brook Street, London, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from Stanhope (Durham), from Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + hop ‘valley’.
History: A family of this name have held the title Earl of Harrington since 1742, and were Earls of Chesterfield from 1628–1967. Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, was a Royalist soldier in the English Civil War. He was captured in 1643 and died in prison in 1656.
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