Captain Hon R P Stanhope


Captain The Rt. Hon. Richard Philip Stanhope, commanding no.2 company, 3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards, killed in action 16 September 1916 aged 31, Of Revesby Abbey, Boston, Lincs. Son of Arthur Philip, 6th Earl Stanhope, and of Evelyn Countess Stanhope. Commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. He won a Blue for rowing at Oxford. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College.


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