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  Stanley (Family) - LoveToKnow 1911
His descendant William de Stanley acquired the forestership of Wirral, with an heiress, in 1284, and was ancestor of two brothers, Sir William and Sir John Stanley.
Although the present wealth of the Stanleys is largely derived from the great industrial development of Lancashire, they were already a power to be reckoned with in that county and in Cheshire at the time of the Wars of the Roses, and have held a leading position ever since among English nobles.
Their eldest son, Edward John Stanley, 2nd baron (1802-1869), entered the House of Commons in 1831 and became undersecretary to the home department in 1841, patronage secretary to the treasury from 1835 to 1841, paymaster-general in 1841, and under-secretary for foreign affairs from 1846 to 1852.
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 Earls of Derby
Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby (1484-1521) was the grandson of the 1st Earl.
Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (September 11, 1689 - February 22, 1776 was a member of the "Stanleys of Bickerstaffe[?]", descended from the brother of the 2nd Earl, and he succeeded to the Earldom in 1736.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (January 15, 1841-1908) was married to Lady Constance Villiers, daughter of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.
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 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanley was born to Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby and Charlotte Margaret Hornby, daughter of Reverend Geoffrey Hornby, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Stanley, a conservative Whig, broke with the ministry over the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1834 and resigned from the government.
In 1844 he was summoned to the House of Lords in his father's Baron of Stanley by Writ of Acceleration.
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 Stanley of Preston, baron @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
Stanley briefly served as Lord of the Admiralty (1868) and Financial Secretary to the War Office (1874-1877) and to the Treasury (1877-1878).
Stanley helped cement the non-political role of the Governor General when he refused to agree to a controversial motion in the House of Commons.
Stanley's term as governor general was due to end, when his older brother, the 15th Earl of Derby, died (21 Apr 1893).
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 file_nav_name Encyclopedia Index (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005), was an early leader of the Crips, a notoriou...
Baron Stanley of Alderley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1839.
Stanley and His Monster was a comic about a boy, who instead of having a dog as his companion, had a monster.
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 Originally Founded By Royal Charter 1566
The Assembly Hall was inaugurated by Lord Stanley in 1905.
The courtesy title of the eldest son of the Earl is Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe.
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1459-1504), the second Baron Stanley, was born in 1459 and inherited his father's titles, including that of king of the Isle of Man, in 1459.
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 THE DERBY LINE
Lord Stanley had been an adherent of the White Rose at the House of York, but his present wife's son, Henry, Earl of Richmond, was the head of the House of Lancaster, and claimant to the throne.
CHARLES STANLEY, eighth earl, born 19 Jan., 1627; married the maid of honor to the Queen of Bohemia; died in 1672.
EDWARD STANLEY, 15th Earl of Derby, eldest son of the 14th Earl of Derby was born on the 21st July 1826.
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 13th Earl of Derby
Edward Stanley, eldest son of the twelfth Earl of Derby, was born on 21st April, 1775.
In 1819, Lord Stanley, took an role in defending the Manchester magistrates and the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry in the parliamentary debates that followed the Peterloo Massacre.
Stanley was still a loyal supporter of the Whigs and so Earl Grey granted him the title Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe and was sent to the House of Lords.
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 Townships: Knowsley | British History Online
At the beginning of 1386 Sir John de Stanley was appointed deputy of Robert Vere, earl of Oxford, in the government of Ireland, (fn.
Sir Thomas Stanley, the second Lord Stanley, married Eleanor Nevill, sister of the King-maker, and succeeded to his father's dignities in Cheshire, some additional offices and lordships being added.
85) The countess of Lincoln, formerly wife of Sir Edward Stanley, brother of the seventh earl, claimed rent-charges from various lands in Lathom, Burscough, and Childwall, and Upton Hall in Cheshire, for the benefit of herself and her sons Charles and James Stanley, under deeds of 1637, and a large amount for arrears.
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 Later Earls of Derby
The eleventh earl was Sir Edward Stanley, Bart., of Bickerstaffe Hall, near Ormskirk, paternally descended from Sir John Stanley, who married "the fair Isabel" of Lathom, and likewise maternally descended from the Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of Edward I.
Edward Smith-Stanley, the son of Lord Stanley, M.P., was born at Patten House, Preston, on the 12th September, 1752, and was educated partially at Trinity College, Oxford.
In October, 1832, he was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Stanley, of Bickerstaffe, and was succeeded in the representation of North Lancashire (for the county was then divided), by his son, the Hon.
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 Upper Grosvenor Street: North Side | British History Online
Edward Smith-Stanley, latterly Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe and 13th Earl of Derby, 1826—36.
This distinctive Edwardian town house was built in 1906—7 for a businessman, Arthur Hill, replacing a house erected under a sub-lease of 1732 to the carpenter Lawrence Neale, whose brick front had subsequently been stuccoed (ref.
This stone-fronted house was built as a speculation in 1909—10 by Matthews, Rogers and Company to the designs of their architect-partner, M. Hulbert, after the Duke of Westminster had required 'the omission of some of the ornamentation of the architraves'.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Territorial designation
For instance, the life peerages conferred on Margaret McDonagh and John Morris were created as Baroness McDonagh, of Mitcham and of Morden in the London Borough of Merton and Baron Morris of Aberavon, of Aberavon in the County of West Glamorgan and of Ceredigion in the County of Dyfed.
Thus the title Baron Stanley of Alderley, in the County of Chester differs in format from Baron Stanley, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster only by the placement of the comma: the former title is Baron Stanley of Alderley whilst the latter is Baron Stanley.
Thus if the Barony of Stanley of Alderley were created at the moment, it would have to be Baron Stanley of Alderley, of Alderley in the County of Chester.
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 Ormskirk Parish Church of Sts Peter & Paul
In the chapel on the south side of the tower are two mural marble monuments, that on the east side being to the memory of Charles Stanley, Esq., and Jane Stanley, his wife ; and that on the west side, to the memory of the Rev. Christopher Sudell, rector of Northmeols, and father of Mrs.
At the east of the north aisle as already observed, is the Bickerstaffe Chapel, beneath which repose the remains of the Stanleys, baronets of Bickerstaffe, and many of their ancestors and kinsmen, who resided at Moor Hall, in Aughton.
Opposite the Bickerstaffe Chapel is the Scarisbrick or Eccleston Chapel, and between the two is the King's Chancel.  At the north-east corner of this chapel is the Scarisbrick vault.
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 Photographs of Nether Alderley, Cheshire, England, UK
In 1956, one of the largest lots of the Stanley estate, still unsold by the agent, was purchased by Imperial Chemical Industries for the research laboratories and commercial headquarters of what was to become ICI Pharmaceuticals Division and is now AstraZeneca.
Sir John Stanley of Latham and Knowsley, eldest son, aged 28 in 1414, Justice of Chester in 1426/7 and Sheriff of Anglesey.
Edward John Stanley, 2 nd Baron, born Alderley 13 Nov 1802, MP for North Cheshire, 1832-41, created Baron Eddisbury of Winnington in Cheshire 12 May 1848, President of Board of Trade, 1855-58, Postmaster-General 1860-66, died 16 June 1869, buried at Alderley where his monument is at the north side of the chancel.
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 stanleyhistroy
It was not until the 12th century that the minor barons and knights adopted surnames and it is therefore unlikely that the early Aldithleys or Stanleys possessed a surname during their actual lifetime.
The Stanleys of Hooton, Cheshire; the Stanleys of Moor Hall, near Aughton, Lancashire; the Stanleys of Great Eccleston in the Fylde, Lancashire, still adhered to the Catholic faith, while the Stanleys of Bickerstaffe (the ancestors of the present Earl of Derby) conformed about 1598.
The Stanleys of Bickerstaffe were mainly Parliamentarians, as were the Stanleys of Alderley and several minor branches in the Midlands.
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 STANLEY (FAMILY) - Online Information article about STANLEY (FAMILY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
1130-C. William de Stanley acquired the forestership of Wirral, with an heiress, in 1284, and was ancestor of two See also:
The former married the heiress of Hooton in Wirral and was ancestor of the Stanleys of Hooton, whose baronetcy, created in 1661, became See also:
Bickerstaffe, who obtained a baronetcy in 1628 and succeeded to the earldom in 1736.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/STANLEY_FAMILY_.html   (1294 words)

  
 HEREDITARY BARONIES IN THE PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
69 Barony of Stanley of Bickerstaffe 22 December 1832(The Barony is held by the English Earl of Derby).
106 Barony of Talbot of Malahide 19 November 1856(The Barony is held by the Irish Baron Talbot of Malahide).
189 Barony of Stanley of Preston 27 August 1886(The Barony is held by the Eglish Earl of Derby).
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 73
Stanley, Edward John Robin, Lord Stanley Bickerstaffe, b.
Stanley, Edward Richard William, Earl of Derby 19th, b.
Stanley, John Thomas, Baron Stanley of Alderley, b.
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 English Prose Drama: Bibliography
Bickerstaffe, Isaac [1768], The absent man. (London: Printed for William Griffin [etc.], 1768) [Bickers,AbsentM].
Bickerstaffe, Isaac [1765], The maid of the mill.
Bickerstaffe, Isaac and Foote, Samuel [1769], Doctor Last in his chariot.
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Stanley." The house is a plain edifice, rises in front of the ancient keep, and by no means appears so incongruous as might have been expected; but it has a fine effect, derived from a position so peculiarly happy.
At the battle of Stoke, when the invader was defeated, Sir Thomas Broughton is said by some accounts to have been slain, by others to have escaped, and resided in concealment with a tenant in Westmoreland, where he died without issue, in 1498.
In the wars of Charles I., the Stanleys had their reverses, Broughton was sold; and it is now the property of John Sawrey, Esq., one of whose ancestors greatly improved it.
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 Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby KG (21 April 1775–30 June 1851), styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832 and known as The Lord Stanley from 1832 to 1834, was an English politician, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist.
Lord Stanley was Member of Parliament for Preston and Lancashire from 1796 to 1832, when he was ennobled as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
In 1834 he succeeded his father as 13th Earl of Derby and withdrew from politics, instead concentrating on his natural history collection at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool.
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 Rivington
The Pilkington Knights fought for Richard III in 1485 and the Stanley's opposed Richard III and fought for Henry VII.
However the Stanley's later joined with the Pilkington's in 1487 to depose Henry VII in favour of the House of York.
The Mower is first seen in a seal appended to a deed dated 10th September 1424 in which Sir John Pilkington (1394 to 1451) who had married Elizabeth Trafford in 1435 on a deed granting land in Shipwalbothums in Bury to Geoffrey, son of John De Holt.
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 pp275-282 Draper 'House of Stanley', 1864
Blackburne retired from public life, and was succeeded by Wilson Patten, Esq., who still remains one of the knights of the shire.
Lady Stanley was born on the 20th October, 1776, and died at Knowsley on the 16th of June, 1817, deeply lamented, and was buried at Ormskirk on the 23rd June.
He was a great admirer of the Constitutional institutions of the country, and ever shewed himself warmly attached to the National form of religion, and he spent on churches and schools about £100,000.
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 thePeerage.com - Place Index 64
Bloomfield, Benjamin, 1st Baron Bloomfield of Oakhampton and Redwood  b.
Bellew, Charles Bertram, 3rd Baron Bellow of Barmeath  b.
Bellew, Edward Joseph, 2nd Baron Bellew of Barmeath  b.
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 Biography of Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Son of Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl, and Charlotte Margaret, his cousin, second daughter of the Rev Geoffrey Hornby.
Became Lord Stanley on the death of his grandfather.
Called to House of Lords as Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 24
Edward FitzEdmund Burke, Baron Fermoy 2nd Roche, b.
Edward George, Baron Howard of Glossop 1 Fitzalan-Howard, b.
Edward Southwell, Baron de Clifford 23rd Russell, b.
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 The Flying Dutchman
The Dutchman's next races were walk-overs for a Produce Stakes and for the Bickerstaffe Stakes at Liverpool.
She was taken to Goodwood, where she failed to place in the tough Findon Stakes, and then went to Doncaster, winning the Filly Stakes, in which another Dutchman daughter, VERGISS-MEIN-NICHT ran second, beating two others.
At Liverpool she walked-over for a small purse and then won the Stanley Stakes, beating the colt Hesper and three others.
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 Encyclopedia Article Centre - Writers & Poets - MSN Encarta
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron
Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl de La Motte, Baron
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[Sir George Booth of Dunham Massey, Bart., created Baron Delamer; 1661, for his services in behalf of the King.] Here we had variety of brave Italian; and Spanish songs, and a canon for eight voices, which Mr.
Stanley, who prayed for King Charles, by the Grace of God, &c., which gave great contentment to the gentlemen that were on board here, and they said they would talk of it, when they come to Breda, as not having it done yet in London so publickly.
After they were gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to the King and give it me to carry privately to Sir William Compton, on board the Assistance, [Sir William Compton, third son of Spencer, Earl of Northampton, a Privy Counsellor and Master of the ordnance, ob.
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