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Stanhope Family
Stanhope may refer to: In arts and entertainment * Stanhope essay prize, at Oxford University * Stanhope College, a fictional college attended by Supergirl People * Stanhope (name), a surname and given name * Earl Stanhope, a hereditary title held by seven people since 1718 * Spencer-Stanhope family, a family of British landed gentry * Earl of Harrington, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain Places Australia * Stanhope, Victoria, Australia * Stanhope Gardens, New South Wales, Australia Canada * Stanhope, Prince Edward Island, Canada * Stanhope, Quebec, Canada * Stanhope, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada UK * Stanhope, County Durham, England * Stanhope, Kent, England * Stanhope, Peeblesshire, Scotland United States * Stanhope, Iowa * Stanhope, Kentucky * Stanhope, New Jersey * Stanhope, Ohio * Stanhope, a Mississippi landmark * Stanhope Hotel, in New York City In transportation * Stanhope (carriage), any of several carriage designs by Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope * Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Essay Prize
The Stanhope essay prize was an undergraduate history essay prize created at Balliol College, Oxford, by Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope in 1855. Notable winners Notable Stanhope Prize winners: * John Richard Magrath, 1860 * Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier, Francis Jeune, 1863, 1st Baron St Helier * Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, 1866 * Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician), Thomas Buchanan, 1868, Liberal politician * Arthur Francis Leach, 1872 * Richard Lodge, 1875 * Charles Harding Firth, 1877, British historian * Arthur Elam Haigh, 1878 * Holden Hutton, 1881 *John Bruce Williamson, 1883, barrister, historian and writer * William Carr (biographer), William Carr, 1884, biographer * Owen Morgan Edwards, 1886 * George Arnold Wood, 1889, English Australian historian * John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1897, British novelist * Robert Rait, 1899 :* Robert Howard Hodgkin was ''proxime'' * Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, 1902, New College, Oxford, British classical sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope, Kentucky
Stanhope is an unincorporated community in Webster County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ..., United States. It was also known as Liberty. References Unincorporated communities in Webster County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{WebsterCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Press
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope, FRS (3 August 175315 December 1816), was a British statesman, inventor, and scientist. He was the father of Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger. He is sometimes confused with an exact contemporary of his, Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington. Early life The son of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope, he was educated at Eton and the University of Geneva. While in Geneva, he devoted himself to the study of mathematics under Georges-Louis Le Sage, and acquired from Switzerland an intense love of liberty. Politics In politics he was a democrat. As Lord Mahon he contested the Westminster without success in 1774, when only just of age; but from the general election of 1780 until his accession to the peerage on 7 March 1786 he represented through the influence of Lord Shelburne the Buckinghamshire borough of High Wycombe. During the sessions of 1783 and 1784 he suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Plc
Stanhope plc is a large property development company based in London, England. Its developments have included Broadgate and Television Centre, London, Television Centre at White City, London, White City. History Stanhope was founded by Stuart Lipton and Peter Rogers in 1983. They were the developers of the Broadgate complex in the 1980s. In 1995, the company developed Gresham St Paul's (previously Garrard House) in Gresham Street, London, for Schroders. The company went on to develop Paternoster Square, in partnership with Mitsubishi Estate, in the late 1990s. In 2000, Stanhope, along with British Gas, Lendlease, Chelsfield plc and Hambros Bank formed Exchequer Partnership plc, a special purpose vehicle, which successfully bid for the Private finance initiative, PFI contract for the refurbishment of Government Offices Great George Street, London to house HM Treasury. Lipton sold his share in the company to the chief executive, David Camp, in December 2005. In July 2012, in pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhopea
''Stanhopea'' is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) from Central America, Central and South America. The abbreviation used in horticultural trade is ''Stan.'' The genus is named for the Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope, 4th Earl of Stanhope (Philip Henry Stanhope) (1781-1855), president of the Medico-Botanical Society of London (1829-1837). It comprises 55 species and 5 natural hybrids. These epiphyte, epiphytic, but occasionally terrestrial plant, terrestrial orchids can be found in damp forests from Mexico to Trinidad to NW Argentina. Their ovate pseudobulbs carry from the top one long, plicate, elliptic leaf. ''Stanhopea'' is noted for its complex and usually fragrant flowers that are generally spectacular and short-lived. Their pendant inflorescences are noted for flowering out of the bottom of the containers in which they grow, lending themselves to culture in baskets that have enough open space for the inflorescence to push through. They are sometimes calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope (optical Bijou)
A stanhope or stanho-scope is an optical device that enables the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope.Focal encyclopedia of photography' By Michael R. Peres Focal Press, 2007 The Strad Magazine October 2005 pp. 51-54 They were invented by René Dagron in 1857. Dagron bypassed the need for an expensive microscope to view the microscopic photographs by attaching the microphotograph at the end of a modified Stanhope lens. He called the devices ''bijoux photo-microscopiques'' or ''microscopic photo-jewelry''.The Photographic Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twyford Motor Car Company
Introduction Robert E. Twyford had an important role in the History of the automobile#19th century, development of the automobile. He originally started out as a building contractor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but later turned to developing automobiles. In 1900, the patent office granted him a patent for a four-wheel driving gear for motor carriages. Robert Twyford developed cars with both four-wheel drive and Power steering, power-steering, first in Pittsburgh and then in Brookville, Pennsylvania. He later moved to Texas. In 1985, William McCracken began work on a replica of the Twyford automobile and finished it in 1989. The Twyford Automobile in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Invention Robert Twyford first started to build automobiles, while still living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1897, he invented a machine which he claimed to have superior performance over any other and planned on exhibiting it to the public soon after. The machine used connecting rods, like locomotive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Body
In automotive use, a Stanhope is a car body style characterized by its single bench seat mounted at the center, folding cloth top, and a dashboard at the front. These vehicles were built from approximately 1900 to 1910. The design was derived from the Stanhope horse-drawn carriage and could be considered a specific type of runabout. Initial stanhope designs featured tiller steering, either in the center or at the side. Features of the car included a foot button to signal a bell (early version of a horn), hard rubber tires, wood trim, and eight forward and three reverse gears, and a top speed of about . Models * 1899–1916 Woods electric car * 1899 Winton (largest manufacturer of gasoline-powered automobiles in the United States at the time) * 1900–1901 Porter Motor Company (manufacturer of steam-powered automobiles) * 1900–1910 White Steamcar (largest manufacturer of steam-powered automobiles) * 1901–1907 Oldsmobile Curved Dash The gasoline-powered Oldsmobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope (railways)
The Railway Regulation Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom), act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom providing a minimum standard for Rail transport, rail passenger travel. It provided compulsory services at a price affordable to poorer people to enable them to travel to find work. It is one of the Railway Regulation Acts 1840 to 1893. The prior situation Until that time there were three or more classes of carriage, third class usually an open Freight car, goods wagon, often without seats, sometimes referred to sarcastically as "Stanhope (carriage), Stanhopes", a corruption of "Stand-ups". During that year, a select committee had produced six reports on the railways, at the behest of the Board of Trade under its president, William Ewart Gladstone, W. E. Gladstone. These led to ''An Act to attach certain Conditions to the construction of future Railways authorised by any Act of the present or succeeding sessions of Parliament; and for other P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope (carriage)
Stanhope refers to the Stanhope Gig, one of several English carriages named after its designer the Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope, a sportsman. Overview Stanhope designed several carriages, each bearing his name as was typical of the time period, and built by the London coachbuilder Tilbury. The first design, the Stanhope Gig built in the 1810s, was a gig with a storage boot under the seat, a crosswise seat for two, no hood or top, bent shafts reinforced with ironwork, and four springs.The next design was the Stanhope Buggy, an English buggy which is basically a lighter weight gig with a falling hood. He also designed the Stanhope Phaeton, a lightweight four-wheeled Phaeton carriage with two crosswise seats, a falling hood over the front seat, and the rear seat was for a servant or liveried groom. The shortened form "Stanhope" refers to the gig style, which by 1830 was the most common two-wheeled carriage seen around London. Many modern gigs are designed around the original Stanhope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Hotel
995 Fifth Avenue is a 16-story co-op apartment building at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and East 81st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building. It was constructed in 1926 as The Stanhope Apartment Hotel and designed by Rosario Candela. The building was converted to a residential co-op with 26 units in 2005 and renamed The Stanhope. It has since been renamed to its address. History The Stanhope Apartment Hotel opened in 1927 under the ownership of the 955 Fifth Avenue Corporation. It shortly passed into the ownership of Benjamin Winter, Inc. in 1928, followed by joint ownership among four banks, including the Bank of United States, in 1932, after Winter's default. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope, Ohio
Stanhope is an unincorporated community in Ashtabula and Trumbull counties, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the .... History A post office was established at Stanhope in 1891, and remained in operation until 1893. The community has the name of one Captain Stanhope. References Unincorporated communities in Ashtabula County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Trumbull County, Ohio 1891 establishments in Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{TrumbullCountyOH-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
