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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)

English politician and writer. He was the author of Letters to his Son (1774), which gave voluminous instruction on aristocratic manners and morals. A member of the literary circle of Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke, he incurred the wrath of Dr Samuel Johnson by failing to carry out an offer of patronage.
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