{{refimprove, date=January 2012 Spencer-Stanhope is the family name of

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who for 200 years held

Cannon Hall Cannon Hall is a country house museum located between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland some 5 miles (8 km) west of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Originally the home of the Spencer and later the Spencer-Stanhope family, it ...

, a

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that since the 1950s has been a

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. The hyphenated form of the name is more common in British

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, but American sources often omit the hyphen and alphabetize by "Stanhope."

19th century

Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, several family members (by birth and marriage) were active in the

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. They were related through

John Spencer Stanhope John Spencer Stanhope (1787–1873) was an English landowner and antiquarian. Life The son of Walter Spencer-Stanhope, he was born 27 May 1787. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1804. Around 1807 he was in Edinburgh, and joined the Sp ...

(1787–1873), a classical antiquarian, writer, and explorer, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Coke of Norfolk, 1st Earl of Leicester. John Spencer Stanhope was the son of industrialist Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1749–1822). The couple died in 1873 within a few days of each other; she on 31 October, he on 7 November. They had six children: * Sir Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1827–1911), Conservative politician. He married Elizabeth Buxton and had 11 children including: ** Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope, a

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, ...

painter and sculptor, including of church works **Cecily Spencer-Stanhope, helped her father to create the ''Fairylands'' part of the grounds of Cannon Hall * John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (1829–1908), a noted second-generation

artist. *Anna Maria Wilhelmina married Percival André Pickering,

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. They had five children, including: **Evelyn, the

artist known by her married surname,

Evelyn De Morgan Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919) was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism. Her paintings are ...

, whose husband was the artist

William De Morgan William Frend De Morgan (16 November 1839 – 15 January 1917) was an English potter, tile designer and novelist. A lifelong friend of William Morris, he designed tiles, stained glass and furniture for Morris & Co. from 1863 to 1872. His tile ...

. **

Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering Percival Spencer Umfreville (Spencer) Pickering (6 March 1858 – 5 December 1920) was a British chemist and horticulturist. Early life and education Born to Anne Maria Spencer-Stanhope, granddaughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester a ...

, a chemist and horticulturist, known for

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. **Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina, author of several books writing as A. M. W. Stirling under her married surname, and founder of the

De Morgan Centre The De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society was a gallery in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England, which was home for a few years to the De Morgan Collection. From 2002 the De Morgan Centre provided public access ...

for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society. *Eliza Anne (d. 1859), who married the Rev.

Richard St. John Tyrwhitt Richard St John Tyrwhitt (1827–1895) was an English cleric and academic, known as a writer on art. Life The eldest son of Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1798–1886), a police magistrate, and his wife Catherine Wigley, daughter of Henry St. John, he ...

of Oxford. *Anne Alicia. *Louisa Elizabeth (1832–1867).

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for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society
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*Pratt, Charles Tiplady. ''A History of

Cawthorne Cawthorne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The village was once a centre of the iron and coal mining industry; today it is part of an affluent commuter belt west of Barnsley. At ...

''. Barnsley 1882
Online
and also here on Wikisource. * Stirling, A.M.W. ''

Coke of Norfolk Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (6 May 175430 June 1842), known as Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham, was a British politician and agricultural reformer. Born to Wenman Coke, Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby, and his wife Eliza ...

and His Friends''. New York 1908
vol. 2
Compound surnames

19th century

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