James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope

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James Richard Stanhope, 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope, KG, PC (11 November 1880 – 15 August 1967) was a British politician in the late 1930s as The Earl Stanhope.

He married Lady Eileen Browne (1889-1940), daughter of the 6th Marquess of Sligo. In 1952 he succeeded his kinsman the 12th Earl of Chesterfield as 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 13th Baron Stanhope, but never used the more senior Earldom of Chesterfield, and continued to be known as The Earl Stanhope. As he had no close heirs, both Earldoms and the Barony of Stanhope became extinct upon his death, but the Viscountcy of Stanhope of Mahon and the Barony of Stanhope of Elvaston passed to his nearest heir, the 11th Earl of Harrington.

The 7th Earl Stanhope left his country seat Chevening to the Nation.

Political offices
Preceded by William Ormsby-Gore	First Commissioner of Works 1936–1937	Succeeded by Sir Philip Sassoon
Preceded by Oliver Stanley	President of the Board of Education 1937–1938	Succeeded by The Earl De La Warr
Preceded by The Viscount Halifax	Leader of the House of Lords 1938–1940	Succeeded by The Viscount Caldecote
Preceded by Duff Cooper	First Lord of the Admiralty 1938–1939	Succeeded by Winston Churchill
Preceded by The Viscount Runciman of Doxford	Lord President of the Council 1939–1940	Succeeded by Neville Chamberlain
Peerage of England
Preceded by Edward Henry Scudamore-Stanhope	Earl of Chesterfield 1952–1967	Succeeded by (extinct)
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Arthur Philip Stanhope	Earl Stanhope 1905–1967	Succeeded by (extinct)
Preceded by Arthur Philip Stanhope	Viscount Stanhope of Mahon 1905–1967	Succeeded by William Stanhope