Walter Spencer Stanhope (1749 - 1822), of Horsforth and Leeds, Yorkshire, was a politician and industrialist whose family fortune had been made through the iron trade. in 1775 Stanhope inherited Cannon Hall from his uncle, John Spencer, and changed his name from Stanhope to Spencer-Stanhope. Stanhope was educated at Bradford Grammar School and went up to University College, Oxford, and later studied law at the Middle Temple, London. Wikipedia
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