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Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield

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The Earl of Chesterfield
Lord Steward of the Household
In office
22 June 1910 – 9 June 1915
MonarchGeorge V
Prime MinisterH. H. Asquith
Preceded byThe Earl Beauchamp
Succeeded byThe Marquess of Bath
Master of the Horse
In office
9 June 1915 – 19 October 1922
MonarchGeorge V
Prime MinisterH. H. Asquith
David Lloyd George
Preceded byThe Earl of Granard
Personal details
Born15 March 1854
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died24 January 1933(1933-01-24) (aged 78)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
SpouseEnid Wilson (1878–1957)
Parent(s)Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield
Dorothea Hay
Alma materBrasenose College, Oxford
Quartered Arms of Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, KG, GCVO, PC

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

Background and education

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Scudamore-Stanhope was the eldest child of Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, by Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet.[1] He was educated at Eton[2] and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1877 with a BA.[3] He was a practising barrister in 1877.[citation needed]

Political career

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Scudamore-Stanhope was Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886. The following year he took his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Treasurer of the Household 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 Privy Council on 30 April 1894. He was later Lord Steward of the Household under H. H. Asquith from 1910 to 1915[3] and Master of the Horse under Asquith and then David Lloyd George between 1915 and 1922. He was invested as a Knight Companion of the Garter on 1 January 1915.[4]

Family

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Lord Chesterfield married the Hon. Enid Edith Wilson, second daughter of Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme, on 15 February 1900 at St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street, Mayfair, London. 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.[4]

Lord Chesterfield died in London on 24 January 1933, aged 78 and was buried in the Church of St Cuthbert in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.[5] Having no heirs, his titles were inherited by his younger brother, Henry.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Profile: 9th Earl of Chesterfield, ThePeerage.com; Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  2. ^ Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 172
  3. ^ a b 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
  4. ^ a b c Thepeerage.com, 10th Earl of Chesterfield on thePeerage.com
  5. ^ [1][permanent dead link] St Cuthbert, Holme Lacy on the Visit Churches website
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Political offices
Preceded by Treasurer of the Household
1892–1894
Succeeded by
Preceded by Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
1894–1895
Succeeded by
Preceded by Lord Steward of the Household
1910–1915
Succeeded by
Preceded by Master of the Horse
1915–1922
Succeeded by
Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Chesterfield
1887–1933
Succeeded by