Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Stanhope, Edward
Stanhope, Edward, 2s. Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope. Christ Church, matric. 16 June, 1859, aged 18, B.A. 1862; fellow All Souls' Coll. 1862-70, M.A. 1865. of Revesby Abbey, co. Lincoln, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1865, M.P. Mid Lincolnshire 1874-80, North Lincolnshire 1880-5, Lincolnshire (Horncastle division) 1885, under-secretary of state for India 1878-80, vice-president of the Council June to Aug., 1885, P.C. 1885, president Board of Trade 1885-6, secretary of state for Colonies July, 1886-7, secretary for War 1887. See Foster's Peerage & Men at the Bar.