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Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon (19 October 1755 – 20 July 1780), formerly Lady Hester Pitt, was the wife of Charles Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope. She was the eldest daughter of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, by his wife, the former Hester Grenville (1720–1803), herself the daughter of the 1st ...
- Lady Hester Pitt, 19 October 1755
- Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Griselda Tekell, Lady Lucy Taylor
- 20 July 1780 (aged 24)
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (Chevening, Kent, Inglaterra; 12 de marzo de 1776-Djoun, Siria, 23 de junio de 1839) fue una aristócrata inglesa aventurera y anticuaria.
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age.
Born into one of the most powerful political families in Britain, for a brief period Lady Hester Stanhope was at the heart of British politics, living with her uncle, the Prime Minister William Pitt, at Walmer Castle and in London from 1803 until his death in 1806.
Aristocratic English traveler who pioneered Western access to remote areas of the Middle East and later settled in the region, performing humanitarian services and acquiring a reputation for wisdom and sanctity. Name variations: Lady Hester Stanhope.
Lady Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon (born Pitt) in Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Vol.3, 1700-1788, 1862
5 de may. de 2016 · In 1815, at roughly the age of 40, Hester Lucy Stanhope led an expedition to Ashkelon which constituted the first modern archaeological excavation in Palestine. Roman ruins at Ashkelon national park, Israel. Image via WIkicommons. First let’s get the bad out-of-the-way, because, there appears to be a lot of bad in this at first glance.
