George Stanhope
A Sermon Preached Before the Queen
In the Chappel Royal at St. James's
November the Fifth 1076 (1706?)
Deut. I, V. Ver. 7, 8, 9,
George Stanhope (5 March 1660 – 18 March 1728) was a clergyman of the Church of England,
rising to be Dean of Canterbury and a Royal Chaplain. He was also amongst the commissioners
responsible for the building of fifty new churches in London, and a leading
figure in church politics of the early 18th century. Stanhope also founded the Stanhope
School in 1715.