| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Stanley of Alderley | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | PC |
| 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: | 1839 5, df=y |
| Party: | Liberal Party |
Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury PC (16 May 1839 – 18 March 1925) was an English peer.
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 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).[1] [2]
Stanley married Mary Katherine Bell, daughter of Lowthian Bell, on 6 February 1873. They had eight children:[3] [4]
| 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"[9] |