Lot 307
Stanhope, Charles, Third Earl of Harrington
Auction: 16 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
Eccentric manuscript album of comic verse, epigrams, riddles and bon mots, including The Dutchess of Kingston's petition to his Holiness the Pope, On a lady's scull, A Dialogue between a bag Wig & a tobacco Pipe, On Lord H_rr_g's being made Bishop of Bangor, Receipt to make a Ghost addressed to Amelia, Dr Winter's letter to Dr Cheney on his vegetable diet, On the death of favourite dog, On the ruins of Godstone nunnery, On the breaking of a China Quart Mug belonging to the Buttery of Lincoln College Oxford, On a Gentleman's appearance in the character of Nobody at a masquerade at Bath, 4to, [c.1790-1800], c.218pp and index in a neat copperplate hand, contemporary calf gilt, arms of the Earls of Harrington on sides, g.e., blue watered silk endpapers, short split at head of upper joint
Footnote
Note: Charles Stanhope, Third Earl of Harrington, succeeded his libertine father as third earl of Harrington on 1 April 1779, and inherited the family estates at Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire, and the London residence of Harrington House, Craig's Court, Charing Cross. This curious album may be the work of his wife Jane ?(1755–1824)?, daughter of Sir John Fleming, first baronet, of Brompton Park, Middlesex, and Jane Coleman. She was lady of the bedchamber to Queen Charlotte and a society hostess, and together they had eight sons and three daughters.