Leicester FitzGerald Charles Stanhope, 5th earl of Harrington
1784–1862
Soldier. Cornet, First Life Guards, 1799; major, Forty-Seventh Foot, 1816–23; colonel in the army, 1837. Succeeded as 5th earl of Harrington in 1851.
Sources
Modern English biography
ODNB
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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