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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. |
 | | As a sportsman, however, Lord Derby had no superior, and in this character the representative of the illustrious House of Stanley, and Englands proudest earl, made himself most conspicuous, and many are the pleasing anecdotes which might be enumerated to show that he merited that reputation and universal esteem he lived so long to enjoy. |
 | | The principal mourners were his only surviving sonthe Earl of Derby, and his three grandsons-.Lord Stanley, the Hon. |
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