Ferdinando Stanhope (1619 to December 1643), younger son of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, was Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1640 to 1643. He served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War and was killed in a skirmish near West Bridgford.
Ferdinando Stanhope | |
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 Bridge over the River Trent seen from West Bridgford, where Stanhope was killed in December 1643 | |
| Member of Parliament for Tamworth | |
| In office 1640 – 1643 (excluded) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1619 Shelford Priory |
| Died | 14 December 1643 (aged 24) West Bridgford |
| Resting place | St Peter and St Paul churchyard [1] |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Royalist |
| Spouse | Lettice Ferrers (1643-his death) |
| Children | Anne |
| Occupation | Politician and soldier |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  England |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars | First English Civil War Edgehill; First Siege of Lichfield; Hopton Heath |
Personal details
editStanhope was born at Shelford Manor, Nottinghamshire; his date of birth is uncertain but must have been around 1618 in order to meet the minimum age of 21 when elected to Parliament in 1640. 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.[2]
Shortly before his death in 1643, he married Lettice Ferrers, daughter of Sir Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth Castle, and left a posthumous daughter Anne.[2]
Career
editIn November 1640, Stanhope was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Long Parliament.[3] When the First English Civil War began in August 1642, he joined the Royalist and fought in the Edgehill campaign. In early 1643, he was one of a group of officers created M.A. of the University of Oxford by Charles I.[2]
Promoted colonel of a cavalry regiment which fought at Lichfield and Hopton Heath in April 1643, he was killed in December in a skirmish near West Bridgford.[4] He was later buried in the family plot at St Peter and St Paul churchyard.[1]
His cousin Sir Aston Cokain wrote him an epitaph:
: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]
Ancestry
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Col Ferdinando Stanhope.
- ^ a b c Brydges 1812, p. 423.
- ^ 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.
- ^ BCW.
- ^ Cokain 1972, pp. 3, 4.
- ^ Brydges 1812, p. 421.
- ^ "Ancestry Family Tree for Weaver and Sanders - aqwg37".
Sources
edit- BCW. "Duke of Gloucester's Regiment of Horse". BCW Project. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- Brydges, Sir Egerton, ed. (1812). Collin's Peerage of England, Volume III. Rivington and others. pp. 421–423.
- Cokain, Aston (1972) [1658]. The Dramatic Works of Sir Aston Cokain. Ayer Publishing. pp. 3, 4. ISBN 0-405-08365-3.
- Col Ferdinando Stanhope. "Col Ferdinando Stanhope". Findagrave. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- Thoroton, Robert (1797). History of Nottinghamshire. Vol. 1 (reprint ed.). J. Throsby. p. 292.