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  Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (21 July 1826 - 21 April 1893) was a British statesman, whose father, the 14th Earl of Derby, served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Lord Stanley, as he was styled before acceding to the earldom, was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a high degree and became a member of the society known as the Apostles.
Lord Derby became a Liberal Unionist, and took an active part in the general management of that party, leading it in the House of Lords till 1891, when Lord Hartington became Duke of Devonshire.
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 Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Derby later (1880) formally shifted his allegiance to the Liberal party and was colonial secretary (1882-85) under William Gladstone.
The view from Knowsley: John Charmley rewrites the history of the Tory Party restoring to its heart the earls of Derby, owners of Knowsley Hall.
A kingdom in crisis: Henry IV and the battle of Shrewsburry: Alastair Dunn discusses the battle and its repercussions in its 600th anniversary year.
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 DERBY - LoveToKnow Article on DERBY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These earlier earls of Derby were also known as Earls Ferrers, or de Ferrers, from their surname; as earls of Tutbury from their residence; and as earls of Nottingham because this county was a lordship under their rule.
Stanley was one of the executors of Edward IV., and was at first loyal to the young king Edward V. But he acquiesced in Richards usurpation, and retaining his office as steward avoided any entanglement through his wifes share in Buckinghams rebellion.
EDWARD HENRY STANLEY, 15th earl of Derby (1826 1893), eldest son of the I4th earl, was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a high degree and became a member of the society known.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stanley James 7th Earl of Derby
Stanley, Edward George Villiers, 17th Earl of Derby (1865-1948), British politician, son of Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th earl of Derby.
Stanley, Edward Henry, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-1893), English politician, eldest son of Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of Derby....
Stanley, Thomas, 2nd Baron Stanley and 1st Earl of Derby (1435?-1504), English nobleman, created 1st Earl of Derby in 1485.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
Stanley, a descendant of the Earls of Derby, was elected to parliament as a Whig in 1820.
Stanley, a conservative Whig, broke with the ministry over the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1834, and resigned from the government.
Derby and Disraeli were unable to achieve a parliamentary majority, however, and the government collapsed in December of the same year, making way for a Peelite-Whig coalition under Lord Aberdeen.
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 pp268-275 Draper 'House of Stanley', 1864
Edward Smith Stanley, the son of Lord Stanley, M.P., was born at Patten House,* Preston, on the 1 2th of September, 1752, and was registered at Preston on the 3rd of October.
For many years Lord Derby attended personally the Preston and Liverpool races, and took great interest in the matches of his horses and cocks, and many were the well-earned guerdons in his lordship’s possession as proof of their superior pluck and bottom.
The Countess of Derby died on the 23rd April, 1829, and was interred at Ormskirk.
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 AllRefer.com - Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of, British And Irish History, Biographies
Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of[dAr´bE] Pronunciation Key, 1826–93, British politician, son of the 14th earl.
Derby later (1880) formally shifted his allegiance to the Liberal party and was colonial secretary (1882–85) under William Gladstone.
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 15th Earl of Derby
Edward Stanley, eldest son of the 14th Earl of Derby, was born on the 21st July 1826.
In 1868 Earl of Derby resigned and Benjamin Disraeli became the new Prime Minister.
William Gladstone was glad to have Derby in his party and asked him to be leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords.
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 Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, 1st Baron Stanley of Preston (January 15, 1841 - June 14, 1908) was Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and Governor-General of Canada from 1888 to 1893.
The son of the 14th Earl of Derby, a politician and British Prime Minister, Lord Stanley of Preston entered politics after having studied at Eton College and Sandhurst.
Lady Stanley, whom Sir Wilfrid Laurier described as "an able and witty woman", made a lasting contribution during her husband's term of office.
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 EDWARD GEOFFREY SMITH STANLEY - Online Information article about EDWARD GEOFFREY SMITH STANLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wellington (1828-183o), Stanley and those with whom he acted were in opposition.
Stanley was one of the most ardent supporters of Lord Grey's Reform Bill.
work of another; but Lord Derby fully concurred in, if he was not the first to suggest, the statesmanlike policy by which the question was disposed of in such a way as to take it once for all out of the region of controversy and agitation.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stanley Edward Henry 15th Earl of Derby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stanley, Frederick Arthur, 16th Earl of Derby (1841-1908), English politician, son of Edward George Geoffrey Smith, 14th earl of Derby, and younger...
Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith, 14th Earl of Derby : political associates: Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount
Stanley then led a small faction of moderate reformers who sought to form a third political party, between the Whigs and the Tories.
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 Talk: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A man universally known as "William Pitt the Elder" is now treated under "William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham", by which he was not known, nor ever could be: the surname and the title are not used together.
He is very frequently known as William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
Note such fine articles as Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, etc. etc.
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 Arthur Balfour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848 - 1930), British statesman, eldest son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire, and of Lady Blanche Gascoyne Cecil, a sister of the third marquess of Salisbury, was born on the 25th of July 1848.
Amid Liberal protests in favour of immediate dissolution, he resigned on the 4th of December; and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, being entrusted by the king with the formation of a government, filled his cabinet with a view to a general election in January.
In 1922 Balfour was created Earl of Balfour and in 1925 once again returned to the Cabinet, serving as Lord President of the Council in Stanley Baldwin's second government.
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Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-93): Between 1878 and 1893
Edward Henry Stanley was the only minister to serve in the cabinets of both Gladstone and Disraeli.
As a diarist, he was probably the fullest and most informative "fly on the wall" of the British Empire in the second half of the 19th century.
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The college was founded by Henry VIII in 1546 and most of its major buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne 1780-1863 Whig statesman
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 1826-1893 Foreign Secretary
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 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley (July 6, 1866 - December 9, 1868)
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (February 21, 1874 - April 2, 1878)
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (November 12, 1900 - December 4, 1905)
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Volume II The despatches and correspondence of John, second earl of Buckinghamshire, ambassador to the court of Catherine II of Russia, 1762-1765, ed.
Ancient biographical poems on the duke of Norfolk, Viscount Hereford, the earl of Essex and Queen Elizabeth, from Gough's Norfolk MSS, in the Bodleian Library, ed.
Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, archdeacon and prebendary of Exeter, chaplain and tutor to the princesses Mary and Anne, daughters of the duke of York, afterwards James II, in the years 1677-8, ed.
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 Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
Bohun, Humphrey V de, 2d earl of Hereford and 1st earl of Essex
Carew, George, Baron Carew of Clopton and earl of Totnes
Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of
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 Knowsley Local History - ref: KN66   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frederick was born 15th January 1841 the second son of Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl and younger brother of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl who died without issue.
He entertained lavishly at Knowsley, where Edward VII was regularly amongst his guests.
His eldest son Edward George Villiers Stanley succeeded him to the title on his death in 1908.
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In 1794 a new office was created for Henry Dundas - the Secretary of State for War, which now took responsibility for the Colonies, and was renamed the
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (December 16,
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was created, the Colonial Office had responsibility for all British colonies and dominions besides India, which had its own Secretary of State.
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 Soap Box Derby --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
It dates from 1780 and is named for Edward Stanley, 12th earl of Derby.
It lies on the western shore of a peninsula in King Sound (an inlet of the Indian Ocean), near the mouth of the Fitzroy River.
Founded in 1883 to serve a pastoral district, it was named for Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby, who was then the British secretary of state for the colonies.
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Previously those responsibilities had fallen to the Secretary of State for the Southern Department, who was responsible for Southern England, Wales, Ireland, the American colonies, and relations with the Catholic and Muslim states of Europe.
In 1794 a new office was created for Henry Dundas - the Secretary of State for War, which now took responsibility for the Colonies, and was renamed the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1801.
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (December 16, 1882 - June 9, 1885)
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 AllRefer.com - Edward Henry Stanley (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Edward Henry Stanley (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Edward Henry Stanley, British And Irish History, Biographies
Edward Henry Stanley see Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of.
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 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of MulgraveHenry Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (January 11, 1805 - February 7, 1806/)
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of DerbyEdward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley (July 6, 1866 - December 9, 1868/)
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxEdward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax (February 21, 1938 - December 22, 1940/)
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 Royal Historical Society, Camden Series V-I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Financial Memoranda of the Reign of Edward V, ed.
The Letters of Henry St. John to the Earl of Orrery, 1709-1711, ed.
Volume IX State trials of the reign of Edward the First, 1289-1293, ed.
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 Articles - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Articles - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, KG, GCB, GCVO, PC (15 January 1841–14 June 1908) was Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893.
He is most famous for presenting the Stanley Cup, which became the most famous award for professional ice hockey.
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 World Museum Liverpool Geology Collections
Also noteworthy are the collections of Kendal Museum, St Helens Museum, part of the geological collections of Sir Henry Wellcome, and those of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester.
The fossil collections are extensive (40,000 specimens) and mainly consist of British material arranged stratigraphically.
A fine collection of agates and other polished stones was built up between 1870 and 1892 by Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, and was bequeathed by Lord Derby to the museum in 1893.
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 Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869), Prime Minister
Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869), Prime Minister
Derby was one of the leading political figures of the age as well as publishing works which included a version of the Illiad.
Members of the House of Lords (includes George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby; Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough; Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry; Henry Clinton, 4th Duke of Newc...)
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