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Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, Lord Stanley, MC (9 July 1894 – 16 October 1938) was a British Conservative politician. The eldest son of the 17th Earl of Derby, he held minor political office before being appointed Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in 1938, sitting in the cabinet alongside his brother Oliver Stanley.
After the unexpected death of Edward IV in 1483 and the accession of his twelve-year-old son Edward V, Stanley was among those who sought to maintain a balance of power between the young king's uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who was now Lord Protector, and his maternal family, the Woodvilles.
Edward Smith-Stanley was born on 19 March 1799 at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. He was the eldest son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, and his wife (and first cousin) Charlotte Margaret Hornby. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. [5] Stanley's ancestors were Kings of Man from 1405 and later Lords of Man.
Edward John Robin Stanley, Lord Stanley, heir apparent to the earldom (b. 1998) Oliver Henry Hugh Stanley (b. 2002) The elder son, Lord Stanley, is a godson of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, [citation needed] and was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II between 2008 and 2012, [23] appearing in three Garter services and four State Openings of ...
Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Their Son, Edward Smith Stanley, future 13th Earl, by Angelica Kauffman, circa 1776. 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.
Stanley was born at 23 St James's Square, London, [1] the eldest son of Hon. Frederick Stanley (later the 16th Earl of Derby) by his wife, Lady Constance Villiers. Frederick Stanley was the second son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who was three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The eldest son of Edward, Lord Stanley, and his wife, the Hon. Sibyl Cadogan, daughter of Viscount Chelsea, his grandfather was Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, a British Ambassador to Paris. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. His father having died in 1938, he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom and other family ...
Stanley was born in St James's Square, Westminster, [1] the second surviving son of Edward Smith-Stanley, Lord Stanley, and the Hon. Emma Caroline, Lady Stanley, daughter of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. In 1851, his father succeeded as 14th Earl of Derby.