Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

1694–1773

18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)

writer · politician · diplomat

Born in London

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

• Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• George Washington (1732–1799)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

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