Stanley, Edward STANLEY, EDWARD. Adm. pens, at Trinity, Apr. 18, 1808. [Eldest s. of James, of Portland Place, and Brighton (and Augusta, dau. of John Cornwall, of Hendon, Middlesex). B. 1789. School, Harrow; played cricket in Lord Byron's XI V. Eton, 1805.] Matric. Michs. 1808; B.A. 1812. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 2, 1810, aged 20. Of Cross Hall, Onnskirk. J. P. and D.L. for Lanes. Married, Sept. 3, 1819, Lady Mary Maitland, dau. of the 8th Earl of Lauderdale. Died Mar. 8, 1870. Brother of Thomas (1817). [Harrow Sch. Reg.; Inns of Court; Burke, L.G.) STANLEY, The Hon. EDWARD HENRY. Adm. pens, (age 18) at Trinity, Apr. 8, 1844. [Eldest] s. of Edward Geoffrey Smith [14th] [Earl of Derby] (Christ Church, Oxford, 1817). B. [July 21, 1826], at Knowsley, Lanes. Schools, [Eton and] Rugby. Matric. Michs. 1844 ; (10th Classic, 1848) ; M.A. 1848 ; Hon. LL.D. 1862. Styled Lord Stanley, 1851-69. iMember of the Apostles. Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 1853. M.P. for King's Lynn, 1848-69. Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mar.-Dec. 1852. Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1858; for India, 1858-9; for Foreign Affairs, 1866-8 and 1874-8, and for the Colonies, 1882-5. P.C, 1858. Rector of the University of Glasgow, 1869-71 and of the University of Edinburgh, 1875-7. Chancellor of the University of London, 1891. Succeeded his father as 15th Earl of Derby, Oct. 23, 1869. K.G., 1884. After King Otto of Greece was expelled in 1862, the throne was offered to, and refused by, Prince Alfred (second son of Queen Victoria); the authorities in Greece then seriously considered the possibility of asking Stanley to accept it; 'the Greeks really want to make our friend Lord Stanley their king,' Disraeli wrote in 1863. Married, July 5, 1870, Mary Catherine, Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, dau. of the 5th Earl De La Warr, and widow of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury. Died, s.p., Apr. 2i, 1893. [Eton Sch. Lists; Rugby ■'ich. Reg.; Dulu'ich Coll. Reg.; G.E.C.; Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.) STANLEY, EDWARD JOHN. Adm. pens, at Trinity, June 25. 1897. [Eldest] s. of the Hon. Edward Lyulph (Balliol College, Oxford, 1857), Lord Stanley of Alderley, of n, Mansfield Street, Portland Place, London (and Mary Katharine, dau. of Sir Lowthian BeU, Bart., of Washington, Durham). B. May 14, 1878, in London. School, Clifton College. Matric. Michs. 1897; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1906. Resident, Sokoto province, N. Nigeria. Died Nov. 1908. (Clifton Coll. Reg.; Burke, L.G.) STANLEY, The Hon. EDWARD (SMITH). Adm. FeU.-Com. (age 18) at Trinity, Feb. 1, 1771. [Eldest] s. of James [Smith], Baron Strange, of Preston, Lanes, (and Lucy, 2nd dau. of Hugh Smith, of Weald Hall, Essex). [B. Sept. 12, 1752.] School, Eton. Matric. Lent, 1771; M-A. i773- M-P- for Lanes., 1774-6. Succeeded his grandfather as 12th Earl of Derby, Feb. 22, 1776. Lord Lieut, and Custos rotulorum of Lanes., 1776-1834. Col. of the Lanes. Militia, 1772. P-C, 1783. K.G. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Aug.-Dec. 1783 and again Feb. i8o6-Mar. 1807. Married (i) June 23, 1774, Elizabeth, dau. of James, 6th Duke of Hamilton; (2) Mar. 14, 1797, Elizabeth, dau. of George Farren, surgeon, of Cork, and afterwards an actor. Founded the Derby Stakes, 1780. Died Oct. 21, 1834, at Knowsley; buried at Onnskirk. Father of the next; brother of Thomas S. (i77i)- {Eton Coll. Reg.; Burke, P. and B.; G.E.C.) STANLEY, Lord EDWARD (SMITH). Adm. nobleman (age 17) at Trinity, July 4, i792. [Eldest] s. of Edward [Smith] (above) [12th] Earl of Derby (and Lady Elizabeth, dau. of James, 6th Duke of Hamilton). [B. Apr. 21, 1775-] School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1793; M.A. i795- Styled Lord Stanley until 1832. Col., 2nd Regt., Lanes. Militia, i797, and Col. in the Army, 1798. M.P. for Preston, 1796-1812; for Lanes., 1812-32. Hon. D.C.L., 0.\ford, 1819. Vice-Admiral of Lanes., 1831. Created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, Lanes., 1832. Succeeded his father as 13th Earl of Derby, Oct. 21, 1834. K.G., 1839. President of the Linnaean Society, 1828-33. President of the Zoological Society. Lord-Lieut, of Lanes., 1834-51. Married, June 30, 1798, his cousin, Charlotte Margaret, dau. of the Rev. Geoffrey Hornby, R. of Wmwick, Lanes. Died June 30, 1851, at Knowsley Park. Father of Henry T. S. (1821). (Eton Coll. Reg.; Burke, P. and B.; G.E.C; D.N.B.) STANLEY, FRANCIS. Adm. pens, at Corpus Christi, .A.ug. 28, 1755. Of Herts. [S. of the Rev. Francis (1711), R- of Much Hadham (and Mary, dau. of Lord Justice Pemberton).] Matric. Michs. 1755; B.A. 1760; M.A. 1763. Ord. priest (London) Mar. 18, 1764. V. of North Weald, Essex, 1764- 1827. R. of Eastwick, Herts., 1781-1825; resigned. Died Apr. 18, 1827, aged 90, at Much Hadham. M.I. at Eastwick. Brother of Richard (i755). (Cussans, i. 65; G. Mag., 1827, I. 474-) STANLEY, FRANK JOHN. Matric. Non-Coll., Michs. 1886; B.A. 1889; M.A. 1894. Ord. deacon (Salisbury) 1889; priest, 1890; C of St Paul's, Poole, Dorset, 1889-92. C. of Laister Dyke, Stanley, Hubert Yorks., 1893-8. C. of Shirehampton, Gloucs., 189S-1905. V. of Great Ness, Salop, 1905-24. Disappears from Crockford, 1925. Died Jan. 4, 1940, aged 72, in London. (The Times, Jan. 6, 1940.) STANLEY, GEORGE EDWARD. .\dm. FeU.-Com. (age 17) at Christ's, Oct. 25, 1766. [Eldest] s. of Edward, of Dalegarth, Cumberland (and Mildi-ed, dau. of Sir George Fleming, Bt., Bishop of Carlisle). B. .Mar. 21, 1748, at Ponsonby, Cum- berland. Schools, [Carlisle Grammar and] Eton. Matric. Easter, 1767. High Sheriff of Cumberland, 1774. Married (1) Aug. 12, 1774, Dorothy, dau. of Sir William Fleming, of Rydal; {2) May 26, 1789, Elizabeth, dau. of Morris Evans, of Middlesex, and had issue. Died Nov. 17, 1806, at Rydal Hall, Westmorland; buried at Ponsonby. (Eton Coll. Reg.; Carlisle Gr. Sch. Reg.; Peile, 11. 282.) STANLEY, HENRY. Matric. from Pembroke, Lent, 1788. STANLEY, HENRY EDWARD JOHN. Adm. pens, at Trinity, Jan. 1, 1846. [Eldest] s. of the Hon. Edward John (later 2nd Baron) (Christ Church, Oxford, 1822) (and Henrietta Maria, dau. of the 13th Viscount Dillon). B. [July 11], 1827, at Alderley, Cheshire. School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1846. Entered the Foreign Office, 1847; Attach^ at Constantinople, 1851 ; Secretary to the Legation at Athens, 1854-9. Secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer's special Commission to the Danubian Provinces, 1856-8. Travelled widely in the East studying Oriental languages, and adopted the Moslem religion. Suc- ceeded as 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley, June 16, 1869, and settled in England. Married, Aug. 1862, Fabia, dau. of Don Santiago Federico San Roman, of Seville. Author, Essays on East and West, etc., and numerous translations for the Hakluyt Society. Died, s.p., Dec. 10, 1903; buried in Alderley Park with Moslem rites, the Imam of the Turkish Embassy officiating. Brother of Algernon C. (1861). (Eton Sch. Lists; Burke, P. and B.; G.E.C; Who was Who; D.N.B.) STANLEY (formerly JOHN ROWLANDS), HENRY MORTON. Hon. LL.D. 1S91. [S. of John Rowlands, of Llys, near Denbigh (and Elizabeth, dau. of — Parry, a small butcher and grazier of Denbigh). B. June 29, 1841.] His father died early and he was brought up in St Asaph workhouse: after nine years of hardship he ran away, and finally shipped as a cabin-boy on board an American vessel bound for New Orleans, 1859. Attracted the notice of a kindly cotton-broker, Henry Stanley, who obtained a situation for him in a store and finally adopted him. Spent two years travelling among the Mississippi towns with Stanley, who educated him. On the death of his adopted father, in 1861, entered the service of the Confederate States as a volunteer in the 6th Arkansas Regt., and was taken prisoner, 1862. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and wrote accounts of his experiences to the news- papers. Visited Asia Minor and wTote of his exploits in the Democrat. With the Neiv York Herald. Commissioned, 1869, to find Dr David Livingstone, and succeeded after many vicissitudes at the end of Nov. 1871. Travelled extensively in the Congo and Central Africa. His book, In Darkest Africa, was translated into many languages. Naturalised as a British subject. M.P. for North Lambeth, 1895-1900. G.C.B., 1899; Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold. Married, July 12, 1890, Dorothy, a distinguished painter, dau. of Charles Tennant, M.P., of Cadoxton Lodge, Glam. Lived latterly at Furze Hill, Pirbright, Surrey. Died May 10, 1904, in London; buried at Pirbright. (D.N.B.) STANLEY, The Hon. HENRY THOMAS SMITH. Adm. pens, (age 18) at Trinity, May 8, 1821. [2nd s. of Edward Smith (179?). Viscount Stanley. B. Mar. 9, 1803.] School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1821. Migrated to St Mary Hall, Oxford, whence he matric. Feb. i, 1826. Sometime in the Guards. Of Stanley Hall, Preston. J. P. and D.L. M.Pr for Preston, 1832-7. Married, Sept. 1, 1835, Anne, dau. of Richard Woolhouse, Esq., and had issue. Died Apr. 2, 1875- (Eton Sch. Lists; Al. Oxon.; Burke, P. and B.; Walford, County Families.) STANLEY, HERBERT FOSTER WENTWORTH. Matric. Non- Coll., Michs. 1883. [srds. of Sidney (1846, sub Wentworth), of Longstowe Hall, Cambs. B. July 2, 1863. School, Eton.] Second Lieut., 9th Lancers, 1887; Lieut., i888;Captam, 1894- Served in India. Died of wounds in the S. African War, Apr. 28, 1900. Brother of Alan S. W. (1880) and Charles W. (1879). (Etoti Sch. Lists; Army Lists; Burke, L.G.) STANLEY, HUBERT. Adm. pens, at Peterhouse, Oct. i, 1882. f2ndl s of the Rev. Robert Rainy Pennington (1844), deceased, V. of Felsted. B. Dec. i, 1863. School, Felsted Matric. Michs. 1882; B.A. 1885; M.B. and B.Chir. 1890 At St Bartholomew's Hospital. M.R.C.S.; L.R.C.P., i895- House Surgeon and House Physician at the Metropolitan Hospital. Practised at Ashford, Kent; and at St Leonards- on-Sea, from 1909. Married, Aug. 14, 1895, EmUy Laura youngest dau. of Edward Dennis Hacon, F.R.C.b., ot Hacluiey. Of Eagle House, St Leonards-on-Sea, m i947- (Al Felsted.; Medical Directories; T. A. Walker, 567.)