Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1749–1822)

Walter Spencer-Stanhope (4 February 1749 – 10 April 1822), of Horsforth and Leeds, Yorkshire, was a British industrialist whose family fortune had been made through the iron trade, and a politician who sat in the House of Commons for various consitituencies between 1775 and 1812.

Background and education

Spencer-Stanhope was born Stanhope, only surviving son of Walter Stanhope, one time merchant of Leeds, and his second wife Ann Spencer, daughter of William Spencer of Cannon Hall. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and went up to University College, Oxford, and later studied law at the Middle Temple, London. In 1775 Stanhope inherited Cannon Hall from his uncle, John Spencer, and changed his name from Stanhope to Spencer-Stanhope by Royal licence.

Political career

Spencer-Stanhope was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlisle in 1775, Haslemere in 1780, Hull, Yorkshire in 1784,^[1] for Cockermouth in 1800, and for Carlisle, Cumberland in 1802.^[2] He was a close supporter of William Pitt the Younger and friend of William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner, after meeting whom he became a religious philanthropist.

Business career

As well as their interests in establishing the cotton industry in the late seventeenth century the Spencer family were largely responsible for establishing the charcoal iron industry in the area between Leeds and Sheffield for the next 120 years.

Family

Spencer-Stanhope married Mary Winifred, daughter of Thomas Babington Pulleine, in 1783. They had eight sons and seven daughters. Their son John Spencer-Stanhope was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the father of Walter Spencer-Stanhope and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Spencer-Stanhope died in April 1822, aged 73. His wife died in December 1850.

References

↑ "STANHOPE, Walter (1749-1822), of Cannon Hall, nr. Barnsley and Horsforth, nr. Leeds, Yorks". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 27 November 2017.
↑ "SPENCER STANHOPE (formerly STANHOPE), Walter (1750-1821), of Cannon Hall, nr. Barnsley and Horsforth, nr. Leeds, Yorks". History of Parliament Online (1790-1820). Retrieved 27 November 2017.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Walter Spencer-Stanhope

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Fletcher Norton Anthony Morris Storer	Member of Parliament for Carlisle 1775–1780 With: Anthony Morris Storer	Succeeded by The Earl of Surrey William Lowther
Preceded by Sir James Lowther Edward Norton	Member of Parliament for Haslemere 1780–1784 With: Hon. Edward Norton	Succeeded by Thomas Postlethwaite John Baynes-Garforth
Preceded by William Wilberforce Samuel Thornton	Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull 1784–1790 With: Samuel Thornton	Succeeded by Samuel Thornton Earl of Burford
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edward Burrow John Baynes Garforth	Member of Parliament for Cockermouth December 1800 – 1802 With: John Baynes Garforth	Succeeded by Robert Plumer Ward James Graham
Preceded by John Christian Curwen Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, Bt	Member of Parliament for Carlisle 1802–1812 With: John Christian Curwen	Succeeded by Sir James Graham, Bt Henry Fawcett

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[HOP-1] "STANHOPE, Walter (1749-1822), of Cannon Hall, nr. Barnsley and Horsforth, nr. Leeds, Yorks". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 27 November 2017.

[HOP2-2] "SPENCER STANHOPE (formerly STANHOPE), Walter (1750-1821), of Cannon Hall, nr. Barnsley and Horsforth, nr. Leeds, Yorks". History of Parliament Online (1790-1820). Retrieved 27 November 2017.