Admiral Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope, 1st Baronet (1754 – 20 December 1814) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

After initial education at a school in East Hill, Wandsworth, Henry Edwyn Stanhope was sent to Winchester College where he became head boy.

Stanhope spent only a short period of time at Oxford, before his abilities drew the attention of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough.

At some point around this time Stanhope also served on the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Lenox, under the command of Captain Robert Roddam.

Chatham thus sailed to Antigua, where Stanhope was badly hit by diseases native to that climate and forced to return home for his health.

Having been appointed to serve as an acting lieutenant in the 20-gun post ship HMS Glasgow previously, at the battle Stanhope was given control of a group of flat-bottomed boats.

[5] Stanhope was commanding officer of the third-rate HMS Russell at the Battle of Saint Kitts in January 1782 during the American Revolutionary War.

He went on to be Second-in-Command of the fleet under Admiral Lord Gambier, with his flag in the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Pompee, at the Battle of Copenhagen during the Napoleonic Wars.

[6] He was created a baronet on 13 November 1807[7] and, after serving as Admiral Superintendent at Woolwich,[8] became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1810 and retired as a vice-admiral of the blue.