Charles Augustus Stanhope, 8th
Earl of Harrington (1844-1917)
Born January 1844
Died 5 February 1917 Elvaston Castle
Married 5 July 1869
Hon. Eva Elizabeth Carrington, daughter of Robert John
Carrington, 2nd Lord Carrington and Hon. Charlotte
Drummond-Willoughby
Born 12 May 1847
Died 20 June 1919
Born plain Charles Augustus Stanhope, in 1866 he became Viscount Petersham
until, in 1881, he became 8th Earl of Harrington. On 7 May 1866 he matriculated
at Oxford. In 1869 he married Eva, a daughter of 2nd Lord Carrington, but
their marriage remained childless. In 1907 he became Yeomanry A.D.C. to
the king which he was until he died in 1917 at age seventy-three. His death
from blood-poisoning resulted from burns incurred in his engineer's workshop.
His widow survived him until 1919.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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