Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley

The Right Honourable
The Lord Stanley of Alderley
PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Stanley of Alderley PC
Member of Parliament; for Oldham
	In office; 27 April 1880 – 18 December 1885
Preceded by	Frederick Spinks
Succeeded by	James Mackenzie Maclean
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	In office; 11 December 1903 – 18 March 1925; Hereditary peerage
Preceded by	The 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Succeeded by	The 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Personal details
Born	16 May 1839
Died	18 March 1925 (aged 85)
Political 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]

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)

Arms

Coat of arms of Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley
	Crest On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an eagle with wings expanded or preying upon an infant proper, swaddled gules, handed argent. Escutcheon Argent, on a bend azure, three bucks' heads cabossed or, a crescent for difference. 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

^ "STANLEY of Alderley, 4th Baron". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1662.
^ The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley (1899). Our National Education. London: James Nisbet & Co., Ltd.
^ Mosly, Charles, ed. (19 December 2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: in three volumes. Vol. 3 (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage. p. 3721. ISBN 9780971196629.
^ Curthoys, M. C. "Stanley, Edward Lyulph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36244. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Brodie, Marc. "Goodenough, Sir William Edmund". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33452. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Papers of Sylvia Henley". University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
^ Cavalieri, Ralph R. (1993). "Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, PhD, F.R.S.: A Personal Tribute". Thyroid. 3 (2): 77–79. doi:10.1089/thy.1993.3.77.
^ Mary Soames (February 2001). Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 144 note 1. ISBN 0-618-08251-4.
^ Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003. London: Macmillan. 2003. p. 1511.

Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Stanley

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Frederick Lowten Spinks John Tomlinson Hibbert	Member of Parliament for Oldham 1880 – 1885 With: John Tomlinson Hibbert	Succeeded by James Mackenzie Maclean John Tomlinson Hibbert
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Stanley	Baron Stanley of Alderley Baron Eddisbury 1903–1925	Succeeded by Arthur Lyulph Stanley
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Henry North Holroyd	Baron Sheffield 1909–1925	Succeeded by Arthur Lyulph Stanley

[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] Mosly, Charles, ed. (19 December 2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: in three volumes. Vol. 3 (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage. p. 3721. ISBN 9780971196629.

[4] Curthoys, M. C. "Stanley, Edward Lyulph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36244. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[5] Brodie, Marc. "Goodenough, Sir William Edmund". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 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] Cavalieri, Ralph R. (1993). "Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, PhD, F.R.S.: A Personal Tribute". Thyroid. 3 (2): 77–79. doi:10.1089/thy.1993.3.77.

[8] Mary Soames (February 2001). Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 144 note 1. ISBN 0-618-08251-4.

[9] Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003. London: Macmillan. 2003. p. 1511.

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