Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Of
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Of
(1694-1773)
Educated privately, then at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he became a member of Parliament, distinguished statesman, diplomat and ambassador to the Hague. In 1715 he was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber to George, prince of Wales (later George II). He negotiated the marriage of William, prince of Orange, with Anne, princess royal of England. He was the patron of many struggling authors. Dickens caricatured him as Sir John Chester in Barnaby Rudge (1841). He is the author of several literary criticisms. Some of his poems: "Advice to a Lady in Autumn," "On Lord Ila's Improvements, near Hounslow Heath," "On Miss Eleanor Ambrose, a Celebrated Beauty in Dublin," "Verses Written in a Lady's Sherlock 'Upon Death.'"
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