Background
Scudamore-Stanhope was the eldest child of Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, by Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet.
Scudamore-Stanhope was the eldest child of Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield, by Dorothea Hay, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet.
He was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1877 with a Bachelor.
He was a practising Barrister in 1877. Scudamore-Stanhope was Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886. The following year he took his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father.
He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Treasurer of the Household between 1892 and 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms between 1894 and 1895, and was sworn of the Privy Council on 30 April 1894.
He was later Lord Steward of the Household under H. H. Asquith from 1910 to 1915 and Master of the Horse under Asquith and then David Lloyd George between 1915 and 1922. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 1 January 1915.
1854-1883: Mr Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope
1883-1887: Lord Stanhope
1887-1894: The Rt Honorary The Tenth Earl of Chesterfield Bt
1894-1911: The Rt Honorary The Tenth Earl of Chesterfield Bt Personal Computer
1911-1915: The Rt Honorary The Tenth Earl of Chesterfield Bt Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Personal Computer
1915-1933: The Rt Honorary The Tenth Earl of Chesterfield Bt Knight of the Order of the Garter Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Personal Computer
Lord Chesterfield married the Honourable Enid Edith Wilson, second daughter of Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme, on 15 February 1900 at Saint Mark"s Church, North Audley Street, Mayfair, London. She was half his age.
They lived at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, a property which her father bought for the couple as a belated wedding present.
They did not have any children. Lord Chesterfield died in London on 24 January 1933, aged 78. He was buried in the Church of Street Cuthbert in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.