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RARE "5th Earl Stanhope" Philip Stanhope Hand Written Letter:
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Up for sale a RARE! "5th Earl Stanhope" Philip Stanhope Hand Written Letter Dated 1845. 

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Philip

Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, FRS (30

January 1805 – 24 December 1875), styled Viscount Mahon between

1816 and 1855, was an held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s but is best remembered

for his contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings. Born

at Walmer, Kent, Stanhope was the son of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl

Stanhope, and the Hon. Catherine Stanhope, daughter of Robert Smith, 1st Baron

Carrington. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford,

graduating in 1827. Stanhope entered Parliament in

1830, representing the rotten the seat was disenfranchised in 1832. He was

then re-elected to Parliament under Sir Robert Peel as Under-Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs between December 1834 and April

1835, and Secretary to the Board of

Control in 1845, but though he remained in the House of Commons till

1852, he made no special mark in politics.

Stanhope's chief achievements were in the fields of literature and

antiquities. In 1842 took a prominent part in passing the Literary

Copyright Act 1842. From the House of Lords he was mainly responsible for proposing

and organising the foundation of the National Portrait Gallery,

London in 1856. A sculpted bust of Stanhope holds the central

place over the entrance of the building, flanked by fellow historians and

supporters Thomas Carlyle and Lord Macaulay. It was mainly due to him that in 1869 the Historical Manuscripts

Commission was started. As president of the Society of Antiquaries (from

1846 onwards), he called attention in England to the need of supporting the

excavations at Troy. He was also president of the Royal Literary Fund from

1863 until his death, a trustee of the British Museum and founded the Stanhope essay prize at

Oxford in 1855.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1827 

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