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CHESTERFIELD 187 his father), took the name of Scudamore before that of Stanhope ed. at Win- chester; matric. at Oxford (Balliol Coll.) 28 June 1838, B.A., 1841. He was a Liberal in politics. He »;., 6 Aug. 1 851, at St. John's, Edinburgh, Dorothea, ist da. of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Bart. [S.], by Henrietta Callander, da. of William Grant, of Congatton, co. Haddington. He d. 21 Jan. 1887, at the Victoria Hotel, St. Leonards-on-Sea, aged 65. Will pr. at Hereford, 8 Mar. 1887, over ^^ 13,000. His widow was living 191 2. X. 1887. 10. Edwyn Francis (Scudamore-Stanhope), Earl OF Chesterfield [1628] and Baron Stanhope of Shel- FORD [16 1 6], also a Baronet [1807], ist s. and h., b. 15 Mar. 1854, in Rome. Ed. at Eton, and at Brasenose Coll. Oxford, B.A. 1877. Treasurer of the Household 1892-94; Capt. of the Corps of Gentlemen at arms 1894-95; P.C. 30 Apr. 1894. Lord Steward (Liberal) since i9io.() He w., 15 Feb. 1900, at St. Mark's, North Audley Str., Enid Edith, 2nd da. of Charles (Wilson), ist Baron Nunburnholme, by Florence Jane Helen, ist da. of Col. William Henry Charles Wellesley. She was b. 10 Sep. 1878, at Marske Hall, Richmond, Yorks. Family Estates. — These consisted chiefly of the greater portion of the Scudamore estates, inherited, 22 Oct. 1820 (on the death, s.p..^ of Frances, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, born Scudamore), by the father ot the 9th Earl, whose grandfather, Edwin Francis Stanhope, m. Catherine, the only child that had issue of John Brydges, styled Marquess of Carnarvon, the s. and h. ap. of James, ist Duke of Chandos, who was great-grandson and h. of Sir Giles Brydges, Bart, (so cr. 1627), who m. Mary, da. of Sir James Scudamore, of Holme Lacy, co. Hereford, sister of John, cr. Viscount Scudamore [L] in 1628. In 1883 these estates consisted of 5,039 acres, co. Hereford, worth ^^6,224 a year, and 152 acres in Herts, worth ;^256 a year. Total 5,191 acres, worth ^^6,480 a year. Principal Residence, Holme Lacy, CO. Hereford-C*) CHESTERFORD i.e. "Chesterford, co. Essex," Barony {Howard cr. 1706, with the Earldom of Bindon, which see; extinct 1722. (^) He is one of the numerous peers who are or have been directors of public companies, for a list of whom (in 1896) see vol. v. Appendix C. () The whole of the Herefordshire estates, mansion and grounds, totalling 5,510 acres, were offered for sale by auction 29 June 1909, and of these 3,396 acres, with the mansion, were sold for a sum approaching ;^2 00,000, to Sir Robert Lucas Tooth, an Australian brewer, the family portraits in the house being also sold. V.G.