- Né en 1673
- Décédé le 5 février 1721, à l'âge d'environ 47 ans
Parents
- Alexander Stanhope (1638 - 1707), Esquire, gentleman Usher to the Queen, envoy extraordinary to Spain (1689–1706)
- Catherine Burghill (1638 - )
Famille
Occupations
- Member of Parliament for Newport (Isle of Wight) in 1702 and 1717
- Member of Parliament for Cockermouth (1702 - 1707, 1707 - 1713, 1715 - 1717)
- Member of Parliament for Wendover (1714 - 1715)
- Member of Parliament for Aldborough in 1715
- governor of Minorca (1708 - 1711)
- secretary of State for the Southern Department (1714 - 1716)
- secretary of State for the Northern Department (1716 - 1717, 1718 - 1721)
- first lord of the Treasury (1717 - 1718)
- chancellor of the Exchequer (1717 - 1718)
- colonel of James Stanhope's Regiment of Foot (1702 - 1705)
- colonel of James Stanhope's Regiment of Dragoons (1710 - 1712, 1715 - 718)
- privy counsellor