Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope

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Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope (19 January, 1823 – 7 July, 1871) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Stanhope received a Royal Humane Society Silver Medal in 1851 for rescuing a seaman. He would later be the namesake for the Stanhope Medal, awarded to the winner of a life-saving R.H.S. Medal for the year judged bravest of all.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Sainty. Admiralty Officials, 1660-1870. p. 66.