Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby

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Portrait by William Derby, c. 1837
Born(1775-04-21)21 April 1775
Knowsley Hall, Lancashire
Died30 June 1851(1851-06-30) (aged 76)
Spouse(s)
Charlotte Margaret Hornby
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(m. 1798; died 1817)​
Issue
FatherEdward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
MotherLady Elizabeth Hamilton
Quarterd arms of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, KG
Arms of Stanley: Argent, on a bend azure three buck's heads cabossed or

Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (21 April 1775 – 30 June 1851), KG, of Knowsley Hall in Lancashire (styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832, known as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe from 1832-4), was a politician, peer, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist. He was the patron of the writer Edward Lear.

Origins

He was the eldest child and only son and heir of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752–1834) by his wife Elizabeth Hamilton, a daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton.

Career

He was educated at

County Palatine of Lancaster
.

Military career

He was commissioned Colonel of the

2nd Royal Lancashire Militia.[4] He was breveted as a colonel in the regular Army with seniority from that date, retaining the rank until his regiment was disembodied,[5] which occurred at the end of 1799.[4]
He resigned his commission as colonel on 13 April 1847.

Naturalist

In 1834 he succeeded his father as 13th

Platycercus icterotis, and thus Platycercus stanleyii was found to have been an invalid name due to the pre-existence of a published description for the species, according to "the inviolable laws of precedence in deliberations on biological nomenclature".[6] From the Earl of Derby's Collection, the State Library of NSW purchased six volumes of exquisite Australian natural history drawings dating from the early days of British settlement in NSW and this Library publishes talks and exhibitions of its research on this collection.[7]

He founded in 1851 with his natural history's collection a museum in Liverpool, the Derby Museum, the current World Museum, the oldest of the National Museums Liverpool group.

Marriage and issue

Arms of Hornby: Or, two chevronels between three bugle-horns sable stringed gules on a chief of the second as many eagle's legs erased of the first[8]

On 30 June 1798 he married his first cousin Charlotte Margaret Hornby (d.1817), second daughter of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby (1750–1812), of Scale Hall, near

Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, Colonel of a regiment of Lancashire militia,[10] by his wife Lucy Smith-Stanley (d.1833) a daughter of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (1716–1771), (son and heir apparent of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (1689-1776)) and a sister of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752–1834). Charlotte's brother was Edmund Hornby (1773–1857) of Dalton Hall, near Burton, Westmorland, a Member of Parliament for Preston, Lancashire, from 1812–1826,[11] who married his first cousin Lady Charlotte Stanley (d.1805), a daughter of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
(1752–1834). By Charlotte Hornby, he had issue:

  • Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869), thrice Prime Minister (1852, 1858–9, 1866–8)
  • Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Smith-Stanley (1801–1853), married Edward Penrhyn
  • Hon. Henry Thomas Smith-Stanley (1803–1875), MP for Preston (1832–7)
  • Lady Emily Lucy Smith-Stanley (1804), died in infancy
  • Lady Louisa Emily Stanley (1805–1825), married Lt.-Col. Samuel Long
  • Lady Eleanor Mary Smith-Stanley (b. 1807)
  • Colonel Hon. Charles James Fox Stanley (1808–1884)

Death

He died on 30 June 1851.

References

  1. ^ "Stanley, Lord Edward (Smith) (STNY792E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "No. 13978". The London Gazette. 7 February 1797. p. 133.
  3. ^ "No. 13989". The London Gazette. 4 March 1797. p. 228.
  4. ^ a b Whalley, Joseph Lawson (1888). History of the old county regiment of the Royal Lancashire Militia. Simpkin, Marshall. pp. 145, 167.
  5. ^ "No. 15066". The London Gazette. 29 September 1798. p. 923.
  6. Richter, H. C.; Gould, John (1848). The birds of Australia
    . Vol. 5. London: Gould. pp. pl. 29 et seq.
  7. ^ State Library of NSW (19 June 2015). "TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s". Archived from the original on 29 March 2019.
  8. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1156
  9. ^ "Scale Hall, Lancaster, Lancashire".
  10. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1155, pedigree of "Hornby of Dalton Hall"
  11. ^ Escott, Margaret, biography of "Hornby, Edmund (1773-1857), of Dalton Hall, Westmld." published in:
    History of Parliament: House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009 [1]

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