Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield

The Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield Bt KG GCVO PC
The Earl of Chesterfield as caricatured by Max Beerbohm in Fifty Caricatures (1913).
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)
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.

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]

Styles of address

• 1854-1883: Mr Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope
• 1883-1887: Lord Stanhope
• 1887-1894: The Rt Hon The Earl of Chesterfield Bt
• 1894-1911: The Rt Hon The Earl of Chesterfield Bt PC
• 1911-1915: The Rt Hon The Earl of Chesterfield Bt GCVO PC
• 1915-1933: The Rt Hon The Earl of Chesterfield Bt KG GCVO PC

Family

Lord Chesterfield married the Honourable 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.^[5] She was half his age. They lived 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. He was buried in the Church of St Cuthbert in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.^[6] Having no heirs, his titles were inherited by his younger brother, Henry.^[4]

References

1. 9th Earl of Chesterfield on thePeerage.com
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
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, page 187
4. Thepeerage.com, 10th Earl of Chesterfield on thePeerage.com
5. "Court Circular". The Times (36067). London. 16 February 1900. p. 10.
6. St Cuthbert, Holme Lacy on the Visit Churches website

External links

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