Sydney Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington explained

Sydney Seymour Hyde Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington
Birth Name:Sydney Seymour Hyde Stanhope
Birth Date:27 September 1845
Birth Place:Ashburnham House, Little Dean's Yard, Westminster, London
6th Earl of Harrington
Tenure:1862–1866
Other Titles:Viscount Petersham
Baron Harrington
Residence:Elvaston Castle
Harrington House
Nationality:British
Predecessor:Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington (Father)
Successor:Charles Wyndham Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington (1st Cousin)
Issue:Died without Issue
Parents:Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington
Elizabeth Green, daughter of William Green and Ann Rose Hall, both of Jamaica.

Sydney Seymour Hyde Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington (27 September 1845 – 22 February 1866) was an English peer.

Born Mr Sydney Seymore Hyde Stanhope at Ashburnham House in Westminster, London, Stanhope was the second son of Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington and Elizabeth Williams Green, and only became heir to his father's peerage following the premature death of his brother Algernon Russell Gayleard Stanhope (1838–1847).[1]

Stanhope inherited the Earldom in 1862, at the age of 16, following the death of his father.

Lord Harrington died 22 February 1866, aged 20; unmarried and without issue.[1]

He was succeeded by his first cousin Charles Wyndham Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sydney Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington. The Peerage. 17 April 2013.
  2. Web site: Earls of Harrington. Cracroft's Peerage. 17 April 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130329140147/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index561.htm. 29 March 2013.