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James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope - Definition and Overview

James Richard Stanhope, 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope (1880-1967) was a British politician in the late 1930s as The Earl Stanhope.

He married Eileen Agatha Browne (1889-1940), daughter of the 6th Marquess of Sligo. In 1952 he succeeded his kinsman the 12th Earl of Chesterfield as 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 13th Baron Stanhope, but never used the more senior Earldom of Chesterfield, and continued to be known as The Earl Stanhope. As he had no close heirs, both Earldoms and the Barony of Stanhope became extinct upon his death, but the Viscountcy of Stanhope of Mahon and the Barony of Stanhope of Elvaston passed to his nearest heir, the 11th Earl of Harrington.

Preceded by:
William Ormsby-Gore 		First Commissioner of Works
1936–1937 		Followed by:
Sir Philip Sassoon
Preceded by:
Oliver Stanley 		President of the Board of Education
1937–1938 		Followed by:
The Earl De La Warr
Preceded by:
The Viscount Halifax 		Leader of the House of Lords
1938–1940 		Followed by:
The Viscount Caldecote
Preceded by:
Alfred Duff Cooper 		First Lord of the Admiralty
1938–1939 		Followed by:
Winston Churchill
Preceded by:
The Viscount Runciman of Doxford 		Lord President of the Council
1939–1940 		Followed by:
Neville Chamberlain
Preceded by:
Arthur Philip Stanhope 		Earl Stanhope Followed by:
Extinct
Viscount Stanhope of Mahon Followed by:
William Henry Leicester Stanhope
Preceded by:
Edward Henry Scudamore-Stanhope 		Earl of Chesterfield Followed by:
Extinct



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