(1708 - 36), yr. s. of 3rd E. of Chesterfield.
1729 - 32 Venice ( - 6 Mar. 1729), Bologna, Rome, Naples ( - Nov.), Rome (by 17 Nov. 1729 - Aug. 1730); Venice (by 25 Jul. 1732), Padua (15 Jul.), Turin [Lyons by 18 Oct.]
Stanhope had joined the Coke brothers and Sir John Buckworth in Venice by March 1729 and they had travelled south together through Bologna (see Buckworth). By 17 November they had returned from Naples to Rome,1 where on 5 January 1730 Stanhope was suffering from smallpox from which, however, he quickly recovered. He was still in Rome on 10 August.2 He is next heard of in Venice in mid July 1732, when Elizeus Burges said he was intending 'to go out of Italy before ye end of the summer, & then make ye best of his way home'; he added that, while Stanhope was a very worthy man, 'I wish, for his own sake, he loved Play less than he does. He has no other failing, & that can hurt nobody but himself'.3 Stanhope was in Padua on 15 July.4 In October he wrote from Lyons to Lord Essex thanking him for 'the many favours receiv'd from you during the whole time of my stay in Turin'.5
1. SP 85/16, f.605 (Walton, 17 Nov. 1729). 2. SP 98/32, ff.16, 17, 20, 91 (5, 12, 19 Jan., 10 Aug. 1730). 3. SP 99/63, f.204 (25 Jul. 1732). 4. Brown 1934. 5. Add.27732, f.13 (18 Oct. 1732).