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Persoonlijke gegevens John STANHOPE 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1547 in Shelford, Nottinghamshire.

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (??-08-1557) lag beneden de 16 jaar (10).

• Titel: 1st Baron Stanhope
• Hij is overleden op 9 maart 1620/21 in Harrington, Northamptonshire, hij was toen 73 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Michael STANHOPE en Anne RAWSON

Gezin van John STANHOPE

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Margaret MACKWILLIAMS.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 mei 1589 te Chelsea, Hammersmith, Middlesex, hij was toen 42 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Charles STANHOPE  1593-1675
2. Elizabeth STANHOPE  1599-± 1661 
3. Catherine STANHOPE  1597-1657

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Joan KNOLLYS.

Zij zijn getrouwd augustus 1557 te Bilton, East Riding, Yorkshire, hij was toen 10 jaar oud.

Notities over John STANHOPE

He was the third son of Sir Michael Stanhope, born in Yorkshire, but brought up in Nottinghamshire after his father's attainder for treason in 1552. His father's end did not apparently hinder his own career, and he is probably the John Stanhope who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Marlborough in the Parliament of 1572-1581, for Truro in 1586 and for Rochester in 1588.

At some point during his early career, Stanhope attached himself to the coat-tails of Sir Robert Cecil, and subsequently proved a reliable ally, receiving in return a series of appointments. He was Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding for many years and a member of the Council of the North, and in 1590 was appointed Master of the King's Posts. In 1596, he was knighted, and appointed as Treasurer of the Chamber.

In 1597, Stanhope stood for election to Parliament as Member for Yorkshire, presumably assuming that with his own standing and Cecil's backing he would be certain of success, but they had not reckoned with the independence of the large electorate - Stanhope spent most of his time at court and no longer lived in Yorkshire, and despite his local roots they may have considered him an outsider. According to Stanhope's supporters his principal opponent, Sir John Savile, was backed by only "eight other gentlemen of any reckoning, but with a great number of clothiers and artificers"; but he was local and strongly connected with the clothing industry that provided many of the voters with their livelihood. Stanhope was defeated in a tumultuous election. After the Archbishop of York and other members of the Council of the North reported to the Privy Council that Savile had shown contempt for their authority the Council had him arrested, but they could not overturn the election result and were forced to release him in time to take his seat.

Meanwhile Stanhope was hastily found a seat instead for Preston, a borough Cecil had in his gift as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He later sat for Northamptonshire in the Parliament of 1601 and for Newtown from 1604 until, on 2 May 1605, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stanhope, of Harrington.

As one of Cecil's leading followers, it was rumoured in 1600 that Stanhope would soon become Lord Chancellor. Instead, he was provided for by being appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. In 1603 he was appointed one of the "Commissioners to treat of a Union between England and Scotland", to settle the arrangements for the inheritance of the English throne by the King of Scotland James VI, and in 1609, he became a member of the council of the Virginia Company.

He resigned the Treasurership of the Chamber and retired from his other posts in 1616, and died in 1621. He was succeeded in his peerage (and as Master of the King's Posts) by his son, Charles Stanhope.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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