Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale

Philip James Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (8 December 1847 – 1 March 1923) was a British Liberal Party politician and philanthropist.

Stanhope was born in Marylebone, London. A member of an important political family, he was the younger son of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope and Emily Harriet, daughter of General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet. Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope and Edward Stanhope were his elder brothers (in contrast to him they were both Conservative Party politicians). Having joined the Royal Navy as a young man, he rose to the rank of lieutenant before he left the service.

In 1886 Stanhope was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wednesbury. Having lost his seat in 1892, he was elected again in 1893 for Burnley, a seat he held until 1900. Defeated again, he was elected in 1904 for Harborough, a seat he held until 1906, when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Weardale, of Stanhope in the County of Durham.

A prominent opponent of war - including the Boer War - he was president of the sixth National Peace Conference in Leicester in 1910, led the British group in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and became president of that organisation from 1912 to 1922. He was also president of the Save the Children Fund and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.

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