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James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange

Field	Value
name	James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange
image	[[File:James Stanley lord Strange.JPG	200px]]
caption	Lord Strange, c. 1749
office	Member of Parliament for Lancashire
term_start	1741
term_end	1771
alongside	Richard Shuttleworth (1741–1750), Peter Bold (1750–1761), James Shuttleworth (1761–1768), Lord Archibald Hamilton (1768–1771)
office2	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
term_start2	1762
term_end2	1771
predecessor2	The Earl of Kinnoull
successor2	The Earl of Clarendon
office3	Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
term_start3	1757
term_end3	1771
predecessor3	The Earl of Derby
successor3	The Earl of Derby
birth_date	1716
death_date	1771
father	Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby
spouse	Lucy Smith
children	Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, Thomas Stanley (1753–1779), and others
allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
branch	Lancashire Militia
rank	Colonel

James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (1716 – 1771) was commonly known by that title, though neither he nor his father had any claim to it. He was the eldest son of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby, whose predecessor's heirs had used that courtesy title, but the right to two successive baronies Lord Strange (being baronies by writ) had descended to daughters, when the earldom had passed to the heir male.

James Stanley married Lucy daughter and coheir of Hugh Smith of Weald Hall, Essex, and took the additional surname Smith on his marriage. This marriage produced Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and several other children, including Thomas Stanley (1753–1779). He died before his father, so that the earldom passed straight to his son.

He attended Westminster School where he became a close friend of the future soldier, playwright, and politician John Burgoyne, who was to surrender his army at Saratoga in 1777. As a young man, Burgoyne eloped with Lord Strange's sister. Burgoyne also wrote a masque to celebrate the wedding of Edward Smith-Stanley to Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, a daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton.

Public service

Lord Strange was a Member of Parliament for Lancashire from 1741 until his death. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the ministry of Lord North from 1762 and became a Privy Councillor at the same time.

As Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire during the Seven Years' War, he was tasked with calling out the Lancashire Militia, which had been disembodied since 1746. Although Lancashire's quota was only a single regiment, and despite Strange's enthusiasm, it was not until July 1760 that the regiment attained 60 per cent of its establishment and was issued with arms. Strange was then commissioned as its Colonel (15 July 1760). The regiment was finally embodied for full-tine service on 23 December that year. In October 1761 King George III presented the Regimental Colours and granted it the title 'Royal Lancashire Militia', the colonel's own company becoming 'the King's Company'. The regiment was disembodied in December 1762 as the war was coming to an end, but Strange remained its colonel for the rest of his life.

He is mentioned by Parkman as plenipotentiary to Paris and Choiseul, and advisor to Pitt, during the 1760s turbulence that attended the Treaty of Paris (1763).

Ancestry

Notes

References

Burke's Peerage (1939 edition), s.v. Derby, Earl of
[https://books.google.com/books?id=V6GgAAAAMAAJ Maj R.J.T. Williamson & Col J. Lawson Whalley, ''History of the Old County Regiment of Lancashire Militia'', London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1888, pp. 87–115.]
J.R. Western, ''The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century'', London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965, p. 125; Appendices A & B.
Parkman, Francis: "Montcalm and Wolfe"
"The Pedigree of Elizabeth Hesketh". Jamie Allen's Family Tree.

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