Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Stanhope, Philip Henry (Viscount Mahon)

by Joseph Foster

Stanhope, Philip Henry (Viscount Mahon), 1s. Philip Henry, Earl Stanhope. Christ Church, matric. 19 April, 1823, aged 18; B.A. 1827, created D.C.L, 11 June, 1834, M.A. 18 Dec., 1854, hon. student 1858-75, 5th earl, historian and biographer, M.P. Wootton Bassett 1830-2, Hertford 1832, (April) 1833-55, under-secretary of state for Foreign affairs 1834-5, secretary to Board of Control 1845-6, F.R.S. 1827, F.S.A. 1841, president 1846, LL.D. Cambridge, 1864, lord rector of Aberdeen University 1858, died 24 Dec., 1875. See Foster's Peerage.