Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, (15 March 1854 – 24 January 1933), styled Lord Stanhope between 1883 and 1887, was a British

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and

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Background and education

Scudamore-Stanhope was the eldest child of

Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, DL, JP (8 April 1821 – 21 January 1887) was a British peer. Life and family He was the eldest of four sons of Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 2nd Baronet. He married Do ...

, by Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet. He was educated at Eton and

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, where he graduated in 1877 with a BA.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, p. 187 He was a practising

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in 1877.

Political career

Scudamore-Stanhope was Assistant Private Secretary to the

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in 1886. The following year he took his seat in the

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on the death of his father. He served under

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between 1892 and 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms between 1894 and 1895, and was sworn of the

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on 30 April 1894. He was later Lord Steward of the Household under

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from 1910 to 1915 and

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under Asquith and then

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between 1915 and 1922. He was invested as a

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on 1 January 1915.

Family

Lord Chesterfield married the Hon. Enid Edith Wilson, second daughter of

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, on 15 February 1900 at St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street,

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. They lived initially at Holme Lacy House, the Stanhope seat in Herefordshire, which the Earl had inherited from his father, but which he sold in 1909, having previously sold the contents in 1902. They lived afterwards at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, a property which her father bought for the couple as a belated wedding present. They did not have any children.Thepeerage.com
10th Earl of Chesterfield on thePeerage.com Lord Chesterfield died in

on 24 January 1933, aged 78 and was buried in the Church of St Cuthbert in

Holme Lacy Holme Lacy is a village in the English county of Herefordshire. The population of the civil parish was 466 at the 2011 Census. Category It is a primarily rural village. Etymology Holme Lacy is not from Old Norse ''holmr'' "island" like other pla ...

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.
St Cuthbert, Holme Lacy on the Visit Churches website Having no heirs, his titles were inherited by his younger brother, Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 11th Earl of Chesterfield, Henry.

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