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Lot Essay
Charles Wyndham Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington (1809-1881), Statesman, was the son of the Hon. Fitzroy Henry Richard Stanhope who was a younger brother of both the 4th and 5th Earls of Harrington. His inheritance of the Earldom and its vast fortune came unexpectedly through a cousin who died without children. Prior to becoming the Earl of Harrington, Stanhope had led a modest life. In 1839, in Paris, he married Elizabeth Still Pearsall (d. 1912) whose father Robert Lucas Pearsall lived at Wartensee Castle, St. Gall, in Switzerland. During their marriage, they had twelve children. Stanhope succeeded his cousin and became 7th Earl of Harrington in 1866. He died in 1881 at Harrington House, London.
Lord Harrington, although become a Statesman by accident, is not a politician by practice, for he greatly prefers Music and Seafaring to Public Affairs, and his house at Cowes is the chosen centre for chamber-practice and nautical conversation. He is now sixty-four years of age and still delights in the Sea and the Fiddle'.
Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 157, 1873.
Lord Harrington, although become a Statesman by accident, is not a politician by practice, for he greatly prefers Music and Seafaring to Public Affairs, and his house at Cowes is the chosen centre for chamber-practice and nautical conversation. He is now sixty-four years of age and still delights in the Sea and the Fiddle'.
Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 157, 1873.