Excerpt from Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol. 2 of 3
It probably will be known to most readers that Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter of Charles Earl of Stanhope by Hester, his first wife, sister to Mr. William Pitt, and daughter of the first Earl of Chatham. He had issue by this first wife three daughters - Hester, Griselda, and Lucy. The earl married a second wife, by whom he had three sons the present earl; Charles, killed at Corunna; and James, who died at Caen Wood, the villa of his father-in-law, the Earl of Mansfield.
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