George Augustus Frederick Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield, PC, styled Lord Stanhope until 1815, was a British Tory politician, courtier and race horse owner. He served as Master of the Buckhounds u
George Augustus Frederick, 6th Earl of Chesterfield, on his favourite hack by Sir Hercules
Two of the earl's horses in 1838; on the left Industry, who won the Oaks that year, on the right Caroline Elvina, who also ran in the Oaks but was unplaced. She was sold to the emperor of Russia (John Frederick Herring, Sr., 1838)
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The Chesterfield is a formal, dark, knee-length overcoat with a velvet collar introduced around the 1840s in the United Kingdom. A less formal derivation is the similar, but with a lighter fabric, sli
George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield
…foolish when they decide to marry. Some of their friends thought that she refused him because she believed that he cared more for her sister Selina. Chesterfield coat Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Chesterfield…
A 1909 fashion plate of the new Chesterfield
George Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield, circa 1860, is wearing an early example of a Chesterfield coat (1860).