Edward Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 12th Earl of Chesterfield
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Edward Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 12th Earl of Chesterfield in the County of Derby and Baron Stanhope, in the County of Nottingham, in the peerage of England (9 February 1889 – 2 August 1952)
He was the only son of the Honorable Evelyn Theodore Scudamore-Stanhope, the fifth and youngest son of the Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, and was born on February 9th, 1889.
He succeeded as 12th earl in 1935 after two of his uncles had succeeded his grandfather as tenth and eleventh earls respectively. Both had died without issue and were predeceased by their younger brothers.
He married first Lorna Marie Lever (daughter of Mr. William Henry Lever of Wellington, New Zealand), on the 17th September 1915. Through this marriage he had his only child, a daughter, Evelyn Patricia Mary Scudamore-Stanhope, born 7th May 1917 in Kuala Lumpar where he was growing tea.
The marriage was dissolved in 1925 and the The Earl of Chesterfield went on to marry Angela Domatilla Hopkins, daughter of Mr Francis Patrick Hopkins.
He died 2 August 1952.
