Baron John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope

Family and Education

b. c.1545, 3rd s. of Sir Michael Stanhope† and bro. of Edward Stanhope I, Edward Stanhope II, Michael Stanhope and Sir Thomas Stanhope. educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. 1556; G. Inn (poss. hon.) 1556. m. (1) bef. Sept. 1557, Mary (d.1568), 1st da. and coh. of Sir William Knowles of Bilton in Holderness, alderman of Kingston-upon-Hull, s.p.; (2) 6 May 1589, Margaret, da. of Henry Macwilliam, 1s. 2da. Kntd. Aug. or Sept. 1596; cr. Baron Stanhope 1605. Stanhope died on 9 Mar. 1621, and was buried at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, ‘because’, as he stated in his will, made 5 Oct. 1620, ‘I have lived there the space of thirty years and above’. The will was proved by the widow in April 1621.

Biography

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