Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1735, and had a lifelong interest in mathematics.

He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1774.

[1] He privileged the pursuit of science and mathematics over politics and became close to prominent natural philosophers such as Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Franklin.

As a patron of various mathematicians, he came into contact with Thomas Bayes, one of the founders of Bayesian inference.

They had two sons: This biography of an earl in the peerage of Great Britain is a stub.