Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Ferdinando

Last Name:

Stanhope

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1636

Inscription:

A rectangular stone wall plaque (below Georgiana West memorial):

Expecting a glorious resurrection,
Nere to this place resteth ye body of KATHERINE
one of the daughters of FRANCIS Lord HASTINGS eldest
sonne to GEORGE Earle of HUNTINGDON, first wife to
PHILIP LORD STANHOPE of SHELFORD and EARLE OF CHESTERFIRLD
which KATHERINE
departed this life ye XXVIIIth day of August 1636
leaving issue eleven sonns, vlz JOHN (who dyed wthout
issue & lieth here interred) HENRY, THOMAS, EDWARD
CHARLES; FRANCIS and FERDINANDO (both also
interred in this place) MICHAEL; PHILIP (here likewise
buried) GEORE & ARTHUR & two daughters vlz SARAH & ELIZABETH
which HENRY, taking to wife KATHERINE daughter & Coheire
of THOMAS Lord WOTTON of BOCTON in KENT had issue
by her two sonnes vlz WOTTON who died young, &
PHILIP now Earle of CHESTERFIELD & two daughters MARY & ELIZABETH
This small Monument is dedicated to ye memory of his deare Mother
by ARTHUR STANHOPE her youngest sonne (who hath done ye like
in ye Church of St. GILES in ye suburbs of LONDON for his Deare Father)
which ARTHUR having wedded ANNE
one of ye daughters of Sr HENRY SALISBURY of LAWENNY
in ye county of DENBIGH Kt & baronet, by ELIZABETH his
wife, daughter to Sr JOHN VAUGHAN of GOLDEN GROVE in ye
county of CAERMARTHIN Kt hath had issue three sonnes & one
daughter vlz PHILIP & HENRY, who both dyed younge
CHARLES & KATHERINE now living

Allegiance:

Royalist

Memorial Notes:

Mentioned on the memorial of Katherine Stanhope

KIA West Bridgeford, 14 December 1643

His cousin Sir Aston Cokain wrote him an epitaph:

Here underneath this monumental Stone
Lie Honour, Youth, and Beauty all in One:
For Ferdinando Stanhope here doth rest,
Of all those Three the most unequal'd Test.
He was too handsome and too stout to be
Met face to face by any Enemy;
Therefore his foe (full for his death inclin'd)
Stole basely near, and shot him through behind.
— Aston Cokain