Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield ( 1633 - 1713 )

Birth: 1633 Death: His house in Bloomsbury Square, Middlesex (28 January 1713) Burial: Shelford, Nottinghamshire Education: Pupil of Poliander, Professor of Divinity at Leyden (1640); the Prince of Orange's College at Breda; Oxford; DCL (1669) Career: Lived in Holland and France (1640-1652); travelled in Italy (1650, 1654-1656); returned to England (1652); notorious for his wildness, one of his mistresses was Barbara Villiers, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland; imprisoned in the Tower of London for wounding Captain John Whalley in a duel (1658) and on suspicion of involvement in Sir George Booth's rising (1659); killed a man in a duel, fled to France, and having obtained pardon from Charles II, returned to England in his train (1660); Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Braganza (1662-1665); member of her Council (1670); Colonel of a regiment of foot (1667, 1682); Privy Councillor (1681); Warden of the royal forests south of Trent (1679); disapproved of James II's religious policies but refused preferment from William III and Queen Anne Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1708.