Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope

The Right Honourable The Earl Stanhope

Arthur Philip Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope (13 September 1838 – 19 April 1905), was a British Conservative Party politician. From 1855 to 1875 he was styled Viscount Mahon. He sat for a few months of 1868 as a Member of Parliament for Leominster and returned to the Commons as member for Suffolk East from 1870 to 1875. He was Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in 1875.

Viscount Mahon succeeded to the title of Earl Stanhope on the death of his father on 24 December 1875. He married Evelyn Pennefather, daughter of Richard Pennefather of Knockeevan, County Tipperary and Lady Emily Butler, daughter of Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Glengall. He was succeeded by his son, James Richard Stanhope.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Kent from 1890 to 1905.

Styles of address

• 1838-1855: The Honourable Arthur Philip Stanhope
• 1855-1868: Viscount Mahon
• 1868: Viscount Mahon MP
• 1868-1870: Viscount Mahon
• 1870-1875: Viscount Mahon MP
• 1875-1905: The Right Honourable The Sixth Earl Stanhope

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Mahon

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Arthur Walsh Richard Arkwright	Member of Parliament for Leominster 1868 With: Richard Arkwright	Succeeded by Richard Arkwright
Preceded by John Henniker-Major Frederick Snowdon Corrance	Member of Parliament for East Suffolk 1870–1875 With: Frederick Snowdon Corrance 1870–1874 The Lord Rendlesham 1874–1875	Succeeded by The Lord Rendlesham Frederick St John Newdigate Barne
Party political offices
Preceded by Henry Cecil Raikes	Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations 1875	Succeeded by Lord Claud Hamilton
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl Sydney	Lord Lieutenant of Kent 1890–1905	Succeeded by The Marquess Camden
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Philip Henry Stanhope	Earl Stanhope 1875–1905	Succeeded by James Richard Stanhope