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Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley

English peer (1839–1925)

Summary

English peer (1839–1925)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Right Honourable
name	The Lord Stanley of Alderley
honorific-suffix	PC
image	Edward_Lyulph_Stanley.jpg
office6	Member of Parliament
for Oldham
term_start6	27 April 1880
term_end6	18 December 1885
predecessor6	Frederick Spinks
successor6	James Mackenzie Maclean
office7	Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
term_start7	11 December 1903
term_end7	18 March 1925
Hereditary peerage
predecessor7	The 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley
successor7	The 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley
birth_date
death_date
party	Liberal Party

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | honorific-suffix = PC for Oldham Lord Temporal Hereditary peerage Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury (16 May 1839 – 18 March 1925) was an English peer.

Life

He was the son of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, and the former Hon. Henrietta Dillon-Lee. He attended Eton College between 1851 and 1857, gaining the Tomline Prize for mathematics in 1857. He read Greats at Balliol College, Oxford, gaining a first-class degree and fellowship to the college in 1861. He was called to the bar in 1865.

Stanley (then known as the Honourable Edward Lyulph Stanley) contested Oldham, in the Liberal interest, at elections in 1872, 1874, 1880 and 1885. He only won the 1880 contest and served in the House of Commons during the 1880–1885 Parliament. He inherited the title of Baron Stanley of Alderley in 1904, following the death of his brother. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1910.

Stanley was a member of the London School Board from 1876 to 1885 and also from 1888 to 1896. He wrote a book Our National Education (1899).

Family

Stanley married Mary Katherine Bell, daughter of Lowthian Bell, on 6 February 1873. They had eight children:

Katharine Florence Clementine Stanley (died 1884)
Henrietta Margaret Stanley (1874–1956), married William Edmund Goodenough.
Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1875–1931)
Edward John Stanley (1878–1908)
Lt.-Col. Oliver Hugh Stanley (1879–1952)
Sylvia Laura Stanley (1882–1980), married Anthony Morton Henley, and was mother of Rosalind Pitt-Rivers.
Blanche Florence Daphne Stanley (1885–1968), married Eric Pearce-Serocold.
Beatrice Venetia Stanley (1887–1948)

Arms

References

Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)

References

(1907). "STANLEY of Alderley, 4th Baron".
The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley. (1899). "Our National Education". James Nisbet & Co., Ltd.
(19 December 2003). "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: in three volumes". Burke's Peerage.
Curthoys, M. C.. "Stanley, Edward Lyulph".
Brodie, Marc. "Goodenough, Sir William Edmund".
"Papers of Sylvia Henley". [[University of Oxford]].
(1993). "Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, PhD, F.R.S.: A Personal Tribute". Thyroid
Mary Soames. (February 2001). "Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
(2003). "Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003". Macmillan.

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