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    Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, KG, GCB, GCVO, PC (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908) styled as Hon. Frederick Stanley from 1844 to 1886 and...
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    Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893) Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (1841–1908) Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865–1948)...
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    Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, KG, PC, FRS (21 July 1826 – 21 April 1893; known as Lord Stanley from 1851 to 1869) was a British statesman...
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    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...
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    James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, KG (31 January 1607 – 15 October 1651) was an English nobleman, politician, and supporter of the Royalist cause in the...
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    Talbot. Lord Stanley later became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the father of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada,...
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    the third son of the Hon. Frederick Stanley (later 16th Earl of Derby) and Lady Constance Villiers (later Countess of Derby). He was one of ten siblings...
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    George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, KG, KP, GCB, PC (12 January 1800 – 27 June 1870) was an English diplomat and statesman from...
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    Diary of Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, 1866-1892", Oxford, 1981, 23 February 1872 Ramsden, p.110 Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby died in...
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    Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby led the "Who? Who?" ministry, a short-lived British Conservative government which was in power for a matter of months...
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    Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, PC, DL (12 July 1872 – 30 September 1930) was a British Conservative politician and barrister who...
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  • notable descendants include Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk; Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby; Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger; and Lady Jane Grey (by...
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    the Stanleys of Knowsley, of which Sir Thomas Stanley (son of the 3rd Earl) and the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 16th and 18th Earls of Derby have...
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    Governor of Madras from 1929 to 1934 and as Acting Viceroy of India in 1934. The sixth son of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Stanley was educated...
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    the Countess of Derby, and briefly (c. 1784) with Lady Elizabeth Foster, daughter of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and mistress of William Cavendish...
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    Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from...
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    Knowsley Hall (category Earls of Derby)
    the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It is the ancestral home of the Stanley family, the Earls of Derby. The hall is surrounded by...
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  • by Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (also the namesake of the Stanley Cup in North American ice hockey), in 1903 and originally named Stanley House...
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  • of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby Lady Elizabeth Hastings (born 1587), third daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby William Stanley...
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    16 October 1888. Stanley was named for Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, and completed in November 1888. Upon entering service in 1888, Stanley's primary...
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  • Earl Cadogan Grandson of Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall Eldest son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby Eldest son of Frederick Ponsonby...
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    1517) Dorothy Howard, married Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby Anne Howard, married John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford Katherine Howard, married firstly...
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  • 1852 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (First Lord) Benjamin Disraeli (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Richard Grenville, Marquess of Chandos Lord Henry...
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  • September 1532, Margaret Stanley, the only daughter of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby, and Anne Hastings, the daughter of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron...
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    Lady Mary married Col. the Hon. Algernon Francis Stanley (a son of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby). Hon. Sir George Arthur Charles Crichton (1874–1952)...
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  • Edward Stafford, 4th Baron Stafford (category Stanley family)
    (1572 – 16 September 1625), was the son of Edward Stafford, 3rd Baron Stafford, and Mary Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, and Dorothy...
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    audience. The Stanley family, Earls of Derby, had a long history of horse-racing, and James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, who gained the Lordship of Mann in 1627...
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    India Office. Sir Frederick Stanley succeeds Cranbrook at the War Office. Cabinet members are listed in bold face. Notes Created Earl of Beaconsfield 21...
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    Stanley was the second-youngest of ten children born to Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby and Constance Villiers. Two of her siblings died before Isobel...
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    P.B. (1994). "Stanley, Frederick Arthur, 1st Baron Stanley and 16th Earl of Derby". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography...
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