The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1

Note 23 — PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.

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The Countess of Chesterfield here alluded to was the second wife of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield. Philip Dormer, fourth Earl, was grandson of the second Earl by his third wife.

[24] In the 'Annual Register,' for 1774, p. 20, it is stated that as George I. had left Lady Walsingham a legacy which his successor did not think proper to deliver, the Earl of Chesterfield was determined to recover it by a suit in Chancery, had not his Majesty, on questioning the Lord Chancellor on the subject, and being answered that he could give no opinion extrajudicially, thought proper to fulfil the bequest.

[25] Lord Mahon, now Earl of Stanhope, if not the most eloquent, one of the most honest historians of our time.

[26] Two years' wages were left to the servants.

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