Stanhope meaning

stăn'hōp', stăn'əp
A light, open, horse-drawn carriage with one seat and two or four wheels.
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A light, open carriage drawn by one horse, with two low wheels and one seat, popular in 19th-cent. England and the U.S.
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A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
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Origin of stanhope

  • After the Reverend Fitzroy Stanhope (1787–1864), British clergyman
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Stanhope (“a surname"). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.
    From Wiktionary

Stanhope Sentence Examples

  • See Lord Stanhope, History of the War of Succession in Spain (London, 1832).

  • His collected works, with a memoir by his son-in-law, Samuel Stanhope Smith (who succeeded him as president of the college), were edited by Dr Ashbel Green (New York, 1801-1802).

  • (London, 1845); Lord Stanhope's History of England (London, 1858); Lecky's History of England (1885) and E.

  • PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE CHESTERFIELD, 4TH Earl Of (1694-1773), son of Philip Stanhope, third earl (1673-1726), and Elizabeth Savile, daughter of George Savile, marquess of Halifax, was born in London on the 22nd of September 1694; Philip, the first earl (1584-1656), son of Sir John Stanhope of Shelford, was a royalist who in 1616 was created Baron Stanhope of Shelford, and in 1628 earl of Chesterfield; and his grandson the 2nd earl (1633-1714) was grandfather of the 4th earl.

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