Stanhope Aspinwall (born 5 July 1713 in

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and died on 17 January 1771) was a British diplomat. He was born to Richard Aspinwall and his wife Elizabeth Stanhope, the great granddaughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, the granddaughter of Arthur Stanhope and daughter of Charles Stanhope. Stanhope Aspinwall was educated at

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from 1722 until at least 1725. From November 1742 Aspinwall was stationed at

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in the British Embassy to the

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. In his will dated 14 April 1747, he describes himself as 'Chancellor and Secretary of the British Embassy at Constantinople',and under

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, until February 1747 ''Chargé d'affaires'' to the Levant Company's embassy. Apparently Fawkener had left the Embassy in a disgruntled state, purportedly for personal reasons. Without an appropriate royal commission, Aspinwall served until the arrival of Sir James Porter On 8 August 1752, George II appointed Stanhope Aspinwall as his agent and consul general to Algiers. His last appointment was as secretary to

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, Ambassador to France, which position Aspinwall was holding when he died on 17 January 1771. Stanhope Aspinwall’s will dated 14 April 1747 shows that he was married to ‘Magdalena’ (other name ‘Baptistina’) and that he then had two children. One of them Elizabeth later married Sir

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. Two daughters Cecilia Frances and Margaret Catherine were baptised at St Marylebone Parish Church in

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in 1751 and 1754 respectively, both presumably born after Aspinwall left

. Magdalena survived him. On 21 May 1771, in the

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of Canterbury, Administration (with the Will annexed) were granted to her. Stanhope Aspinwall also translated from French into English ''

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, or, The rival brothers'': a tragedy by Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), It was published in London in 1765. ''Biographica Dramatica'' originally by David Erskine Baker and Isaac Reed in 1764: updated in 1811 by Stephen Jones: Volume III published 1812
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References

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British Library, Manuscript Collections: Reference: Add MSS 23807-24, 32725-33070 passim: Letters to Sir Thomas Robinson, Duke of Newcastle etc.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aspinwall, Stanhope Ambassadors of Great Britain to the Ottoman Empire People educated at Westminster School, London Diplomats from Liverpool 18th-century English people 1713 births 1771 deaths British expatriates in the Ottoman Empire