CHESTERFIELD 185 Bedchamber to the Queen Consort 1 809 till her death. She d. 3 i May 1 8 13, at Chesterfield House, Mayfair. He d. 29 Aug. 18 15, at Bretby, CO. Derby, aged 59. Will pr. Feb. i8i6.(^) VI. 1 8 15. 6. George (Stanhope), Earl OF Chesterfield, fjj'c., only s. and h. by 2nd wife, b. 23 May 1805, at Bretby Hall, CO. Derby; ed. at Eton; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 22 Apr. 1823; Lord of the Bedchamber, (Tory) i828-30;() P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; Master of the Buckhounds, 1834-35. He w., 30 Nov. 1830, Anne Elizabeth,('^) 1st da. of Cecil Weld (Weld-Forester), ist Baron Forester of Willey, by Katherine Mary, da. of Charles (Manners), Duke of Rutland. He d. at his house, 3 Grosvenor Sq., i, and was bur. 8 June 1866, at Bretby, aged 6i.() His widow, who was b. 7 Sep. 1802, d. I"] July 1885, aged 82, at Bretby Park. Will, dat. 17 to 19 Mar. 1883, pr. 15 Sep. 1885, at
- ^ii8,966, resworn Sep. 1886, at ;^I32,769.
VII. 1866. 7. George Philip Cecil Arthur, otherwise George Arthur Philip (Stanhope), Earl of Chesterfield, fcfc, only s. and h., ^.28 Sep. 1831 ; ed. at Eton; Cornet Horse Guards (Blue), 1849; Lieut., 1853-55; M.P. (Conservative) for South Notts, 1860-66. When staying, together with the Prince of Wales, at Londesborough Lodge, near Scarborough, they both were attacked with typhoid fever (17 Nov. (*) He appears in 1775, "Lord C . . . d and Signorina Ballantini," in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in the Town and Country Mag., vol. vii, p. 289, for an account of which see Appendix B in the last vol. of this work. When his unfortunate tutor, Dr. Dodd, was condemned to death for forgery on him, he did not (according to Horace Walpole), "discover that tender sensibility natural to and so becoming in a young mind." Madame d'Arblay says of him in her Diary that " he has as little good-breeding as any man I ever met with." V.G. C") Though a Tory, he consistently supported Catholic emancipation. V.G. if) This lady, according to Lady Dorothy Nevill, had the distinction of refusing offers of marriage from two Prime Ministers, Lords Derby and Beaconsfield. V.G. ('^) In his youth he was one of the most brilliant of the men of fashion, having succeeded to a large rental and large accumulations in his minority. "It makes me sad to see Bretby and the mode of life there : idleness, folly, waste, and a constant progress to ruin ; a princely fortune dilapidated by sheer indolence, because the obstinate spoiled owner will neither look into his affairs nor let anybody else look into them. He lies in bed half the day, and rises to run after pleasure in whatever shape he can pursue it ; abhors business, and has no sense of duty." [Greville Memoirs, 16 Sep. 1846). "A man of fair parts and good instincts, but his education had been neglected, and he had been allowed at a very early age to contract habits of dissipation and extravagance, which ultimately led to the loss of nearly half his large fortune, which, however, he endeavoured in his latter years to retrieve by judicious economy. Though rather a spoilt child, he was much liked by those he associated with." (Henry Greville's Diary, 4 June 1866). V.G. 24
