Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield

Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield (15 March 1854 – 24 January 1933), styled Lord Stanhope between 1883 and 1887, was a British peer and courtier.

[citation needed] Scudamore-Stanhope was Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Treasurer of the Household between 1892 and 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms between 1894 and 1895, and was sworn of the Privy Council on 30 April 1894.

They lived afterwards at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, a property which her father bought for the couple as a belated wedding present.

[4] Lord Chesterfield died in London on 24 January 1933, aged 78 and was buried in the Church of St Cuthbert in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.

Quartered Arms of Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, KG, GCVO, PC