Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley

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Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury PC (1839 – 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 was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.

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 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).

Family

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

• Katharine Florence Clementine Stanley (died 1884)
• Henrietta Margaret Stanley (1874–1956), married William Edmund Goodenough.
• 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.
• Blanche Florence Daphne Stanley (1885–1968), married Eric Pearce-Sorocold.
• Beatrice Venetia Stanley (1887–1948)

References

• 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 and 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