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The Hon. Colonel James Hamilton Stanhope (1788–1825), was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. He was a Member of Parliament for Buckingham , 1817–1818, Fowey , 1818–1819, and Dartmouth , 1822–1825.
The memoirs of the great can be illuminating about the past but the memoirs of bystanders to greatness, observant flies on famous walls, can add authenticity and immediacy to long-familiar people and events. Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. James Stanhope MP had access to a remarkable range of famous walls.
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James Hamilton Stanhope (1788-1825) was the youngest son of the third Earl Stanhope, half-brother to Lady Hester Stanhope and personally present at the deaths of both Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1806 and General Sir John Moore in Corunna in 1809.
16 de abr. de 2021 · James Hamilton Stanhope (1788-1825) was the youngest son of the third Earl Stanhope, half-brother to Lady Hester Stanhope and personally present at the deaths of both Prime Minister William Pitt...
- Mark Guscin
The long fight against the French in Portugal and Spain, the campaign in Holland, then the Battle of Waterloo, James Stanhope lived through all these extraordinary events and recorded them in vivid detail.
Stanhope’s father, the radical and scientific 3rd Earl, intended to bring up his children according to his own notions; James was to have learned the shoemaker’s craft, while his elder brother Charles was to have learned the smith’s.
