Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley explained

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.

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 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]

Family

Stanley married Mary Katherine Bell, daughter of Lowthian Bell, on 6 February 1873. They had eight children:[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"[9]

References

Notes and References

  1. STANLEY of Alderley, 4th Baron. Who's Who. 1907. 59. 1662.
  2. Book: Our National Education. The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley. James Nisbet & Co., Ltd. London. 1899.
  3. Book: Mosly. Charles. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: in three volumes. 19 December 2003. Burke's Peerage. 9780971196629. 3. 3721. 107.
  4. 36244. M. C.. Curthoys. Stanley, Edward Lyulph.
  5. 33452. Marc. Brodie. Goodenough, Sir William Edmund.
  6. Web site: Papers of Sylvia Henley. University of Oxford. 28 December 2015.
  7. Cavalieri . Ralph R. . 1993 . Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, PhD, F.R.S.: A Personal Tribute. Thyroid . 3 . 2. 77–79 . 10.1089/thy.1993.3.77 .
  8. Book: Mary Soames. Mary Soames. Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills. February 2001. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 0-618-08251-4. 144 note 1.
  9. Book: Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003 . 2003 . Macmillan . London . 1511.