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Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield

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He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for wounding Captain John Whalley in a duel (1658) and on suspicion of involvement in Sir George Booth's rising (1659). He also killed Francis Wolley in a duel on 17 January 1660, and fled to Holland. After having obtained pardon from Charles II, he returned
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Bruce Yardley, ‘Villiers, George, second duke of Buckingham (1628–1687)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009
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Samuel Pepys Diary -- Latham & Matthews, editors, University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1971 See the entry & footnote for 17 January 1660
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on the death of his grandfather in 1656. He was educated by Poliander, Professor of Divinity at Leyden (1640) and at the
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in November 1708. He died at his home in Middlesex, and was buried in Shelford, Nottinghamshire.
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Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 181-182; volume II, page 184.
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Portrait of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (by Peter Lely)
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with whom she had fallen in love. Chesterfield subsequently married
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His first marriage was to Lady Anne Percy, daughter of the
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had been read twice, Mary jilted Chesterfield for the
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List of deserters from James II to William of Orange
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PC
FRS
Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope
Katherine Wotton
Earl of Chesterfield
Prince of Orange's College at Breda
Doctor of Civil Laws
University of Oxford

Peter Cross
Earl of Northumberland
Anne
3rd Lord Fairfax
banns
2nd Duke of Buckingham
Elizabeth Butler
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
Elizabeth Preston
Lady Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth II
Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon
Lady Elizabeth Dormer
Samuel Pepys
Barbara Villiers
Charles II
Duke of York
James Hamilton
Catherine of Braganza
Fellow of the Royal Society

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