Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Philip

Last Name:

Stanhope

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

unknown

Inscription:

Rectangular wall panel. See: https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/shelford/hmonumnt.php. Transcription is taken from Godfrey 1907 Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire:

Intra AEdem
M. Stanhope, Miles
In Bello Civili pro Rege interemptus
Philippus Comes de Chesterfield
Orator, Scriptor Elegantiarnem doctus,
Hiberniae Proconsul
Aliique de bobilissima Stanhopiorum
gente oriundi
Sepulti jacent

Within the same
Captain Stanhope, Soldier
Slain in the Civil War for the King
Philip, Earl of Chesterfield
Orator, learned writer of elegance,
Proconsul of Ireland
And some of the most brilliant of the Stanhopians
a nation of origin
They lie buried

Allegiance:

Royalist

Memorial Notes:

Philip Stanhope, 10th son of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield (1584-1656), was royalist Colonel of Shelford Manor, Notts. Shelford was stormed on 3 November 1645 by Parliamentarian forces under John Hutchinson and Sydenham Poyntz. The garrison of 160 included a number of Catholics, and the majority were killed when the house was stormed, including Stanhope.
See: Appleby, David (2020). "Fleshing out a massacre: the storming of Shelford House and social forgetting in Restoration England". Historical Research. 93 (260). doi:10.1093/hisres/htaa011.