Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield

The Earl of Chesterfield
The Right Honourable; The Earl of Chesterfield; Bt KG GCVO PC
Lord Steward of the Household
	In office; 22 June 1910 – 9 June 1915
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	The Earl Beauchamp
Succeeded by	The Marquess of Bath
Master of the Horse
	In office; 9 June 1915 – 19 October 1922
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith ; David Lloyd George
Preceded by	The Earl of Granard
Personal details
Born	15 March 1854
Died	24 January 1933 (aged 78)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Enid Wilson (1878–1957)
Parents	Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield; Dorothea Hay
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford

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

Garter-encircled shield of arms of Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel.

Background and education

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.

Political career

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 of the Garter on 1 January 1915.[4]

Family

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

Profile: 9th Earl of Chesterfield, ThePeerage.com; accessed 11 July 2017.
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
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
Thepeerage.com, 10th Earl of Chesterfield on thePeerage.com
St Cuthbert, Holme Lacy on the Visit Churches website

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Chesterfield

Political offices
Preceded by Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox	Treasurer of the Household 1892–1894	Succeeded by Hon. Arthur Brand
Preceded by The Lord Vernon	Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1894–1895	Succeeded by The Lord Belper
Preceded by The Earl Beauchamp	Lord Steward of the Household 1910–1915	Succeeded by The Viscount Farquhar
Preceded by The Earl of Granard	Master of the Horse 1915–1922	Succeeded by The Marquess of Bath
Peerage of England
Preceded by Henry Scudamore-Stanhope	Earl of Chesterfield 1887–1933	Succeeded by Henry Scudamore-Stanhope

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[1] Profile: 9th Earl of Chesterfield, ThePeerage.com; accessed 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

[cokayne-3] 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

[peer-4] Thepeerage.com, 10th Earl of Chesterfield on thePeerage.com

[5] St Cuthbert, Holme Lacy on the Visit Churches website