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    Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age...
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    Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger. He is sometimes confused with an exact contemporary of his, Charles Stanhope, 3rd...
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  • Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon (19 October 1755 – 20 July 1780), formerly Lady Hester Pitt, was the wife of Charles Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, later...
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    dramatization of his life in the epic film Lawrence of Arabia. Lady Hester Stanhope, after the death of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger...
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    the relationship with the national authority.[citation needed] Lady Hester Stanhope, British antiquarian and explorer (1776–1839) Nasri Shamseddine, singer...
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    Like other members of his gifted family, notably his half-sister Lady Hester Stanhope, he is usually portrayed as a somewhat eccentric character. Having...
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    had five children: Lady Hester Pitt (19 October 1755 – 20 July 1780), who married Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope, on 19 December 1774; three...
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  • diarist Hester Dorsey Richardson (1862-1933), American author Hester Santlow (c. 1690–1773), British dancer and actress Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839)...
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    recommendation, Meryon was in 1810 taken on by the eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope, as her medical attendant, on a voyage to Sicily and the Near East...
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    building materials. The first known excavation occurred in 1815. Lady Hester Stanhope dug there for two weeks using 150 workers. No real records were kept...
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  • Countess of Chesterfield (known as Lady Stanhope from her marriage to Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope). Lady Hester Stanhope This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    hiring Joyce, he dismissed his governesses, and required his daughter Hester Stanhope, age 14, to mind turkeys on a village green. Joyce became a member...
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  • surviving daughters from Stanhope's first marriage, including Lady Hester Stanhope, who was later sent to live with her grandmother. Stanhope inherited the earldom...
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    Anderson decided to keep this from Moore (Moore 1834, p. 228). Lady Hester Stanhope was the niece of the William Pitt the Younger, and became an intrepid...
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    2020 census. Stanhope was laid out in 1883. It was named for Lady Hester Stanhope, a British traveler and author. Another theory for the origin of the...
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    specials) 1993 Prince Cinders Fairy Voice 1995 Queen of the East Lady Hester Stanhope 1995–2006 Jools' Annual Hootenanny Guest, 3 Episodes 1996 Roseanne...
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    lover. Granville had numerous other love affairs, including with Lady Hester Stanhope, the adventurer and antiquarian, who attempted suicide after he jilted...
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  • people Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839), British socialite, adventurer and traveler James Stanhope (disambiguation), multiple people John Stanhope (disambiguation)...
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  • (1862–1889) Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) – the first modern "Holy Land" archaeologist, also a memoirist: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as related...
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    Chevening (category Stanhope family)
    reputation, as the self-styled "Citizen Stanhope", for eccentricity and political radicalism. Lady Hester Stanhope was a traveller, writer and early archaeologist...
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    hints at a lesbian relationship in her youth, with a childhood friend, Hester Stanhope. These thoughts are occasionally interrupted by distractions, such...
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  • Drovetti, Italian antiquarian and Egyptologist (d. 1852) March 12 - Lady Hester Stanhope, English archaeologist (d. 1839) 1778: November 5 - Giovanni Battista...
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    Bourbon Restoration. He is now largely remembered as a lover of Lady Hester Stanhope. He was a Member of Parliament in 1830–1. Born in Bombay where his...
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    Ure, John. (2003). In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin, pp. 51–71. John Ure. Robinson. London. Beck, Lois...
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    identity. The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, 1914. Concerns her father's half-sister Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839), a traveler and Arabist...
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    Solomonides Cypriot 1982 First Cypriot person to reach North and South Poles Hester Stanhope British 1776 1839 Conducted first modern archaeology in Holy Land;...
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    dating back to approximately 1850 BCE. [citation needed] In 1815, Lady Hester Stanhope's expedition to Ascalon constituted the first modern archaeological...
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    the country in 1838, published its first topographical studies. Lady Hester Stanhope performed the first modern excavation at Ashkelon in 1815. A Frenchman...
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    his pistol into the air. Afterward, however, Brummel informs Lady Hester Stanhope that he never loved her. She attracts the attention of the womanizing...
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    peak, the city was the centre of Lebanese literary tradition. Lady Hester Stanhope visiting Deir al-Qamar in 1812 wrote “I have traveled for nine hours...
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