Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Stanley of Alderley
Order:14th
Office:Governor of Victoria
Term Start:23 February 1914
Term End:30 January 1920
Predecessor:Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet
Successor:Earl of Stradbroke
Office1:Member of Parliament
for Eddisbury
Term Start1:8 February 1906
Term End1:10 February 1910
Predecessor1:Henry James Tollemache
Successor1:Harry Barnston
Office2:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start2:18 March 1925
Term End2:22 August 1931
Hereditary Peerage
Predecessor2:The 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Successor2:The 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Birth Date:1875 9, df=yes
Birth Place:London, England
Death Place:London, England
Nationality:British
Spouse:Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon
Children:Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley

Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley, (14 September 1875 – 22 August 1931), also 5th Baron Sheffield and 4th Baron Eddisbury, was an English nobleman and Governor of Victoria from 1914 to 1920.

Early life and family

Stanley was the second child and first son of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley and Mary Katherine Bell. On 29 August 1905 he married Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon. They had five children:

Political career

Stanley was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, University of Oxford, where obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1898. In 1902 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. In 1904 he became a London County Councillor and in 1906 became Liberal Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire near the family seat. Whilst an MP he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Postmaster General serving under Sydney Buxton. His sister, Venetia Stanley, was a close correspondent of the Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal party, H. H. Asquith.

Stanley had been commissioned an officer in the Royal Anglesey Engineers Militia in May 1900, and saw active service in South Africa during the Second Boer War. He was promoted to captain on 6 December 1902.

In 1913 he was serving as High Sheriff of Anglesey when he was appointed Governor of Victoria. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George and took up his post on 23 February 1914. He served a five-year term and an additional year until relinquishing the post on 30 January 1920, although he had returned to Britain the previous year due to ill health. In the 1923 General election he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Knutsford, losing by 80 votes to Conservative, Sir Ernest Makins. From 1925 to 1928 he was Chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute and of the East Africa Joint Committee.

In 1925 he succeeded his father to the three baronies and was known by the Stanley title. He died in August 1931 of a bacterial infection, actinomycosis. He was succeeded by his son Edward.

In his capacity as former Governor of Victoria, he attended the Covent Garden farewell of the Australian soprano Nellie Melba, and made a speech thanking her for her artistry and war-work. HMV recorded several excerpts of the evening, including Lord Stanley's speech, all of which can be heard on CD today.[3] [4]

Arms

Escutcheon:Argent, on a bend azure, three bucks' heads cabossed or, a crescent for difference.
Crest:On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an eagle with wings expanded or preying upon an infant proper, swaddled gules, handed argent.
Supporters:Dexter, a stag or, gorged with a ducal crown, line reflexed over the back, and charged on the shoulder with a mullet azure; sinister, a lion reguardant proper, gorged with a plain collar argent charged withthree escallops gules.
Motto:Sans Changer "Without Changing"[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Pamela Stanley played Ophelia in Leslie Howard's ill-fated 1936 Broadway production of Hamlet
  2. Web site: Obituary: 'Tordie' Woods. TheGuardian.com. 19 February 2007.
  3. Web site: From the archive, 9 June 1926: Melba's farewell at Covent Garden. TheGuardian.com. 9 June 2010.
  4. Web site: Nellie Melba; the Hayes and London Recordings 1921-26 Naxos 8.110780 [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2004 MusicWeb(UK).
  5. Book: Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003 . 2003 . Macmillan . London . 1511.