Men-at-the-Bar/Stanhope, Hon. Edward

by Joseph Foster

Stanhope, Hon. Edward, M.P. Mid Lincolnshire since 1874, M.A., All Souls' Coll., Oxon, 1865 (fellow 1862), from Harrow, secretary to the Board of Trade 1875-8, under-secretary of state for India 1878-80, J.P. co. Lincoln, trustee of National Portrait Gallery, a student of Lincoln's Inn 25 Jan., 1862, went to the Inner Temple 20 April, 1865 (then aged 24); where he was called to the bar 1 May, 1865 (2nd son of Philip Henry, Sth Earl Stanhope); born 24 Sept., 1840; married 18 May, 1870, Lucy Constance, dau. of late Rev. Thomas Egerton (see Foster's Peerage).

Revesby Abbey, Boston; 23, Eccleston Square, S.W.; Athenæum, Carlton, Empire, and St. James' Clubs, S.W.