James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
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The Right Honourable The Earl Stanhope PC |
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| First Lord of the Treasury | |
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In office 12 April 1717 – 21 March 1718 |
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| Monarch | George I |
| Preceded by | Robert Walpole |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Sunderland |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 15 April 1717 – 20 March 1718 |
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| Monarch | George I |
| Preceded by | Robert Walpole |
| Succeeded by | John Aislabie |
| Secretary of State for the Northern Department | |
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In office 12 December 1716 – 12 April 1717 |
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| Monarch | George I |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Townshend |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Sunderland |
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In office 16 March 1718 – 4 February 1721 |
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| Monarch | George I |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Sunderland |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Carteret |
| Secretary of State for the Southern Department | |
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In office 27 September 1714 – 22 June 1716 |
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| Monarch | George I |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Bolingbroke |
| Succeeded by | Paul Methuen |
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| Born | c. 1673 Paris, France |
| Died |
5 February 1721 London, England Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse(s) | Lucy Pitt (1692–1723) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Oxford |
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope PC (c. 1673 – 5 February 1721) was a British and soldier who effectively served as Chief Minister between 1717 and 1721. He is probably best remembered for his service during the War of the Spanish Succession. He was also the first British Governor of Minorca, which he had captured from the Spanish, between 1708 and 1711.
Stanhope was born in Paris in 1673, the eldest of the seven children of Alexander Stanhope (1638–1707), and his wife Katherine (died 1718), the daughter and co-heir of Arnold Burghill, of Thinghall Parva, Withington, Herefordshire, by his second wife Grizell, co-heir of John Prise of Ocle Pyrchard, Herefordshire. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated in May 1688.
Stanhope accompanied his father, then English Ambassador to Madrid, to Spain in 1690, and obtained some knowledge of that country which was very useful to him in later life.
A little later he went to Italy where, as afterwards in Flanders, he served as a volunteer against France, and in 1695 he secured a commission in the English army. In 1701 Stanhope entered the House of Commons, but he continued his career as a soldier and was in Spain and Portugal during the earlier stages of the War of the Spanish Succession.
In 1705 he served in Spain under Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, notably at the Siege of Barcelona and in 1706 he was appointed English minister in Spain, but his duties were still military as well as diplomatic, and in 1708, after some differences with Peterborough, who favoured defensive measures only, he was made commander-in-chief of the British forces in that country.
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