RARE \"7th Earl Stanhope\" James Stanhope Hand Signed 3.5X2 Card For Sale

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RARE \"7th Earl Stanhope\" James Stanhope Hand Signed 3.5X2 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "7th Earl Stanhope" James Stanhope Hand Signed 3.5X2 Card Dated 1935. 

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James

Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl 1880 – 15 August 1967), styled Viscount Mahon until 1905,

and known as The Earl Stanhope from 1905 until his death, was

a was the eldest son of Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope, and Evelyn Henrietta (née

Pennefather), daughter of Richard Pennefather of Knockeevan, County Tipperary and Lady Emily Butler. The Hon. Edward Stanhope and Philip

Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale, were his uncles. Lord Mahon was commissioned

a second lieutenant in

the Grenadier Guards on 5

January 1901, and went with his battalion to serve in South

Africa during the Second Boer War. Following

the end of this war in June 1902, he returned with a large contingent of men

from the guards regiments on board the SS Lake Michigan, which

arrived in Southampton in October 1902. Stanhope entered the House of Lords on the death of his father in 1905, and

made his maiden speech in November 1909. He held his first office as Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office under David Lloyd George between

1918 and 1919. In 1924 he was appointed Civil Lord of the

Admiralty under Stanley Baldwin, a post he held until the Conservatives lost

power in 1929. The latter year he was also sworn of the Privy

Council.[4] After the formation of the National Government

in 1931 he served under Ramsay MacDonald as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in

1931, as Under-Secretary of State

for War between 1931 and 1934 and as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the last year

under the premiership of Stanley Baldwin. In 1934 he was made a Knight of the Garter. He

entered the cabinet in June 1936 when Baldwin appointed him First Commissioner of

Works. When Neville Chamberlain became

Prime Minister in May 1937 Stanhope was made President of

the Board of Education, and in February 1938 he also succeeded E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of

Halifax as Leader of the House of

Lords. In October 1938 he became First Lord

of the Admiralty while continuing as Leader of the House of

Lords. After the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, he was succeeded as

First Lord of the Admiralty by Winston Churchill and appointed Lord President of the

Council. He remained as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord

President until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940. However, he did not

serve in the Churchill coalition government and

never returned to ministerial office. He made his last speech in the House of

Lords in December 1960.

In July 1940, Stanhope and several other national politicians --

including Baldwin and Chamberlain -- were targeted in the polemic Guilty Men. This publication accused these men of failing

to prepare Britain for the looming war, and of appeasing Nazi Germany during the 1930s. The accusations made

in Guilty Men have subsequently been questioned by some critics.

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