UK Elections Info

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Born: 1673

Died: 5 February 1721

1st Viscount Stanhope - 3 July 1717

1st Earl Stanhope - 14 April 1718

Member of Privy Council - 1714

Secretary of State	1714	1717
Chancellor of the Exchequer	1717	1718
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	1717	1718
Secretary of State	1718	1721

1 February 1715		Aldborough		Unopposed
1715 Rt Hon James Stanhope elects to sit for Cockermouth.