Stanhope Aspinwall, was a British diplomat. He was born to Richard Aspinwall and his wife Elizabeth Stanhope, the great granddaughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. Stanhope Aspinwall was educated at Westminster School from 1722 until at least 1725. From 1742 until 1747, Stanhope Aspinwall was stationed at Constantinople in the British Embassy to the Ottoman Empire.

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  • Stanhope Aspinwall, was a British diplomat. He was born to Richard Aspinwall and his wife Elizabeth Stanhope, the great granddaughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. Stanhope Aspinwall was educated at Westminster School from 1722 until at least 1725. From 1742 until 1747, Stanhope Aspinwall was stationed at Constantinople in the British Embassy to the Ottoman Empire. In his will dated 14 April 1747, he describes himself as 'Chancellor and Secretary of the British Embassy at Constantinople'. Before that he had been Chargé d'affaires, apparently until sometime in 1746. Later in the 1750’s, Stanhope Aspinwall was British consul to the Bey of Algiers. His last appointment was as secretary to Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, Ambassador to the Court of Versailles in France, which position Aspinwall was holding when he died in Paris on 17 January 1771. Stanhope Aspinwall’s will dated 14 April 1747 shows that he was married to ‘Magdalena’ (other name ‘Baptistina’) and that he then had two children. One of them Elizabeth later married Sir William Neville Hart. Two daughters Cecilia Frances and Margaret Catherine were baptised at St Marylebone Parish Church in London in 1751 and 1754 respectively, both presumably born after Aspinwall left Constantinople. Magdalena survived him. On 21 May 1771, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Administration (with the Will annexed) were granted to her. Stanhope Aspinwall also translated from French into English Rodogune, or, The rival brothers: a tragedy by Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), It was published in London in 1765.
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  • Stanhope Aspinwall, was a British diplomat. He was born to Richard Aspinwall and his wife Elizabeth Stanhope, the great granddaughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. Stanhope Aspinwall was educated at Westminster School from 1722 until at least 1725. From 1742 until 1747, Stanhope Aspinwall was stationed at Constantinople in the British Embassy to the Ottoman Empire.
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