RARE "6th Earl of Chesterfield" George Stanhope Hand Written Note From 1830 For Sale

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for sale a RARE! "6th Earl of Chesterfield" George Stanhope Hand Written Note Dated 1830. 

styled Lord Stanhope until

1815, was a and race horse owner. He served as Master of the

Buckhounds under Lord Melbourne from 1834 to 1835. Chesterfield

was the son of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield,

and his wife, Lady Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, and

was educated at Eton and Christ

Church, Oxford. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1815 at

the age of ten and later took his seat on the Tory benches in the House of Lords. He served

briefly in the Tory

administration of Sir Robert

Peel as Master of the

Buckhounds from December 1834 to April

1835 and was

sworn of the Privy Council in December 1834. Lord

Chesterfield had a great passion for horse racing and spent most of his early

years indulging in that pursuit. Although he had some success on the turf,

winning the Oaks twice,

his victories were not frequent enough to pay for the large string of horses he

had in training or to finance his lifestyle of lavish party giving and

gambling. His racing colours of red cap and jacket with blue sleeves were also

carried to victory by Tom Olliver in

the 1843 Grand

National aboard his horse Vanguard. In 1840,

after the success of Crucifix he decided

to give up his expensive mode of living and retire to Bretby Hall. He did

construct a gallop of two miles to exercise his horses. Many eminent people

visited Bretby to try out their horses or for shooting in Bretby Park. Among

them were the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Londesborough, Lord Newport and Sir

Henry des Voeux. The best jockeys also came to Bretby. Lord

Chesterfield married the Hon. Anne Elizabeth Weld-Forester in

1830. They had one son and one daughter. Their daughter Lady Evelyn Stanhope

(1834–1875) was the first wife of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. Lord

Chesterfield died in June 1866, aged 61, and was succeeded in the earldom by

his only son, George. The Countess of Chesterfield died

in July 1885, aged 82. Like her sister Selina, Countess of Bradford, she was an

intimate friend of Benjamin Disraeli. After

they had both been widowed Disraeli is said to have proposed to her, but she

declined on the ground that people over seventy just look foolish when they

decide to marry. Some of their friends thought that she refused him because she

believed that he cared more for her sister Selina.

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