On 4th February 1750 Walter Spencer-Stanhope was born to Walter Stanhope and Ann Spencer. He was baptised on 9th March 1750. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and went up to University College, Oxford, and later studied law at the Middle Temple, London.
In 1775 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 24] was elected MP Carlisle.
In 1775 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 24] inherited Cannon Hal from his uncle John Spencer, and changed his name from Stanhope to Spencer-Stanhope by Royal licence.
In 1780 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 29] was elected MP Haslemere.
On 21st October 1783 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 33] and Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 20] were married at Tynemouth, Northumberland [Map].
In 1784 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 33] was elected MP Kingston upon Hull.
On 27th May 1787 [his son] John Spencer-Stanhope was born to Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 37] and [his wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 24]. He married 1822 Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester and Jane Dutton, and had issue.
Around 1792 [his son] Edward Spencer-Stanhope aka Collingwood was born to Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 41] and [his wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 29].
In 1793 [his son] William Rodham Spencer-Stanhope was born to Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 42] and [his wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 30]. He married in or before 1837 Charlotte Pulleine.
In 1800 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 49] was elected MP Cockermouth.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1802 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 51] was elected MP Carlisle.
On 10th April 1821 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 71] died.
In December 1850 [his former wife] Mary Winifred Pulleine [aged 87] died.
father: Walter Stanhope 
Grandfather: William Spencer of Cannon Hall
mother: Ann Spencer