Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley

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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
11 December 1903 – 18 March 1925
Hereditary peerage
Preceded byThe 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Succeeded byThe 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Personal details
Born(1839-05-16)16 May 1839
Died18 March 1925(1925-03-18) (aged 85)
Political party
Liberal Party

Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury

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(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 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

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).[1][2]

Family

Stanley married Mary Katherine Bell, daughter of Lowthian Bell, on 6 February 1873. They had eight children:[3][4]

  • Katharine Florence Clementine Stanley (died 1884)
  • Henrietta Margaret Stanley (1874–1956), married
    William Edmund Goodenough.[5]
  • 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.[6][7]
  • Blanche Florence Daphne Stanley (1885–1968), married Eric Pearce-Serocold.[8]
  • Beatrice Venetia Stanley
    (1887–1948)

References

  1. ^ "STANLEY of Alderley, 4th Baron". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1662.
  2. ^ The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley (1899). Our National Education. London: James Nisbet & Co., Ltd.
  3. ISBN 9780971196629
    .
  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36244. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33452. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  6. ^ "Papers of Sylvia Henley". University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  7. doi:10.1089/thy.1993.3.77
    .
  8. ISBN 0-618-08251-4
    .
  • Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Tomlinson Hibbert
 Member of Parliament for
John Tomlinson Hibbert
 		Succeeded by
John Tomlinson Hibbert
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Stanley of Alderley
Baron Eddisbury
1903–1925 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Henry North Holroyd
 Baron Sheffield
1909–1925 		Succeeded by
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