Chesterfield,Fourth Earl of

Chesterfield,Fourth Earl of
Chesterfield, Fourth Earl of Title of Philip Dormer Stanhope. 1694-1773.
English politician and writer best known for Letters to His Son (1774), which portrays the ideal 18th-century gentleman.

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