Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale

Philip James Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (8 December 1847 – 1 March 1923), was a British Liberal Party politician and philanthropist.

[1] Having joined the Royal Navy as a young man, he rose to the rank of lieutenant before he left the service.

[4] Defeated again, he was elected in 1904 for Harborough, a seat he held until 1906,[5] when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Weardale, of Stanhope in the County of Durham.

[2] With Lord Curzon, he became in 1912 joint president of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, an anti-suffrage organisation.

[7] In 1906, he built Weardale Manor, a country house on Toys Hill, Brasted Chart, near Sevenoaks in Kent.