Arthur Stanhope (1627 – 26 March 1694) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1679.
Stanhope was born at Shelford[dubious – discuss], Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, the son of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield and his wife Catherine Hastings, daughter of Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings and was baptised on 10 April 1627.
Three older brothers were killed on the Royalist side in the English Civil War but he tended to support the parliamentary party.
He lived at Shelford Manor which was badly damaged in 1660 when the disintegrating Commonwealth army attacked Nottingham.
[1] Stanhope died at the age of about 66 and was buried at Shelford.