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Philip Stanhope


(b. May 2, 1732, England – d. Nov. 16, 1768, St Gervais-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France )

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Philip Stanhope was the son of James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673 – 1721), and Lucy Pit (1692–1723). As a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member to the American Philosophical Society, his life’s work lay in the support of natural sciences and mathematics.

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