James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope

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James Richard Stanhope, 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope, KG, PC (11 November 188015 August 1967) was a British politician in the late 1930s as The Earl Stanhope.

He married Lady Eileen Browne (1889-1940), the eldest daughter of George Ulick Browne 6th Marquess of Sligo and Agatha Stewart Hodgson, granddaughter of William Forsyth QC. In 1952 he succeeded his kinsman the 12th Earl of Chesterfield as 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th 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.

The 7th Earl Stanhope left his country seat Chevening to the Nation.

Political offices
Preceded by
Anthony Eden
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1934–1936
with Viscount Cranborne from 1935
Succeeded by
The Earl of Plymouth
Preceded by
William Ormsby-Gore
First Commissioner of Works
1936–1937
Succeeded by
Sir Philip Sassoon
Preceded by
Oliver Stanley
President of the Board of Education
1937–1938
Succeeded by
The Earl De La Warr
Preceded by
The Viscount Halifax
Leader of the House of Lords
1938–1940
Succeeded by
The Viscount Caldecote
Preceded by
Duff Cooper
First Lord of the Admiralty
1938–1939
Succeeded by
Winston Churchill
Preceded by
The Viscount Runciman of Doxford
Lord President of the Council
1939–1940
Succeeded by
Neville Chamberlain
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edward Henry Scudamore-Stanhope
Earl of Chesterfield
1952–1967
Succeeded by
(extinct)
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Arthur Philip Stanhope
Earl Stanhope
1905–1967
Succeeded by
(extinct)
Viscount Stanhope of Mahon
1905–1967
Succeeded by
William Stanhope

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