Sir Michael Stanhope, MP

Family and Education

b. c.1547, 4th s. of Sir Michael Stanhope†, and bro. of John, Michael, Sir Thomas and Edward Stanhope I. educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. scholar 1560, BA 1563, minor fellow 1564, MA 1566, major fellow 1569, LlD 1575; incorp. MA Oxon 1566, suppl. DCL 1578. unm. KB 25 July 1603. Stanhope made his will 6 Nov. 1621, so ‘disabled by the gout that he could not write his name’. Among many bequests was £100 to the library of Trinity, Cambridge ‘in which college I was once a scholar’. The will was proved 6 Feb. 1622.

Biography

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