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	Edward Lear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edward Lear (12 May 1812 - 29 January 1888) was an artist, illustrator and writer, well known for his nonsensical poetry and limericks, which he popularised.
		Edward Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a delight in the sounds of words, both real and invented.
		Edward Lear's "nonsense" is an true absence of logic; he plays on the sound of words; and his writing style is poetic.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/e/ed/edward_lear.html (602 words)

	Stanley (Family) - LoveToKnow 1911
		The 4th earl was summoned as Lord Strange, in his father's lifetime, as was the 5th earl, but the barony fell into abeyance between his three daughters, who contested possession of the family estates with his brother, the 6th earl.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Stanley_(Family) (846 words)

	13th Earl of Derby Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Edward Smith Stanley (1775-1851), the 13th Earl of Derby, was an avid naturalist and keeper of one of the great menageries in early Victorian England.
		The eldest son of the 12th Earl of Derby, Edward Smith Stanley (1775-1851) was born at Knowsley, the family seat, eight miles east of Liverpool.
		Derby was a regular contributor to the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, of which he was President at the time of his death, and between 1828 and 1833 he was President of the Linnæan Society.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/d/derby.htm (1096 words)

	Edward Lear - LoveToKnow 1911
		EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888), English artist and humorist, was born in London on the 12th of May 1812.
		Its power attracted the attention of the 13th earl of Derby, who employed Lear to draw his Knowsley menagerie.
		He became a permanent favourite with the Stanley family; and Edward, 15th earl, was the child for whose amusement the first Book of Nonsense was composed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edward_Lear (618 words)

	List of the Knights of the Garter
		62 (inv 1377) Henry (Plantagenet),styled "of Bolingbroke, " Earl of Derby.
		306 (inv 1541) Edward (Seymour), Earl of Hertford.
		770 (inv 1878) Benjamin (D'Israeli), Earl of Beaconsfield.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/list_knights_of_garter.htm (12033 words)

	Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
		1377 (62) Henry (Plantagenet),styled "of Bolingbroke, " Earl of Derby.
		Afterwards Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland.
		Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterstalls.htm (12928 words)

	Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869)
		In July 1822, Stanley, who saw himself as a 'constitutional Whig' at that point in his political career, took his seat in parliament as the MP for Stockbridge, a seat bought for him by his grandfather, the 12th Earl of Derby.
		Stanley's father died on 30 June 1851 and Stanley inherited the title of 14th Earl of Derby.
		Derby was obliged to resign and the Earl of Aberdeen formed a ministry that fell over the mis-handling of the Crimean War.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pms/derby1.html (1556 words)

	13th Earl of Derby
		Edward Stanley, eldest son of the twelfth Earl of Derby, was born on 21st April, 1775.
		Therefore in the election that followed this decision, the Earl of Derby's twenty-one year old son, Edward Stanley, and John Horrocks, head of the local millowners, were elected to represent Preston in the House of Commons.
		By 1812 the Earl of Derby good no longer guarantee that his son would be elected to Preston and so he used his influence to give him one of the seats for the county of Lancaster.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRlordstanley.htm (615 words)

	Thomas STANLEY (1° E. Derby)
		The peerage was extinguished with the deprivation of the 5th Earl of Ferrers and Derby in 1297 for complicity with Simon De Montfort.
		At the christening of Arthur, the new Earl of Derby was one of the two male sponsors, the other being the Earl of Oxford, Sir Walter's and Anne of Geierstein's John Philipson, who had led the van of Richmond's army at the battle of Bosworth.
		The prosperity of the Stanleys was at its height when one prominent member of the family was suddenly disgraced and hurled into the grave; the head of the house, however, escaping the blow which felled and made short work of his brother.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasStanley(1EDerby).htm (4647 words)

	Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (29 March 1799–23 October 1869) was a British statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and is to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby (823 words)

	Biography of Edward Lear
		His birth certificate states that it was actually the 13th and Lear used the 13th May as his birthday in his diaries, however later in life he switched to the 12th.
		Edward Lear was the twentieth child of Jeremiah and Ann.
		In 1832 Edward Lear was engaged by Lord Stanley, heir to the Earl of Derby to draw birds and animals in the menagerie at Knowsley Hall just outside Liverpool.
	www.biogs.com /famous/lear.html (421 words)

	The 1st Stanley Earl of Derby from LANCASHIRE WORTHIES, 1874
		Of Lord Stanley's conduct before, during, and just after this engagement there is extant a significant record in a petition of the Commons, complaining of it and of him, and presented to the King during the sitting of the staunchly Lancastrian parliament held in the ensuing November at Coventry.
		Seacome, the gossipping, garrulous, and credulous historian of the house of Stanley, is loud in the praises of Sir Edward.
		Sir Edward Stanley's second wife was the daughter of Sir John Harrington of Hornby, who, with his father, Sir Thomas, was committed to the custody of Lord Derby, as already mentioned, after the battle of Bloreheath, both of them falling, before long, in the battle of Wakefield.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/fulltext/lw1874/ch01.htm (10212 words)

	14th Earl of Derby
		Stanley returned to government in 1830 when he accepted the post of chief secretary of Ireland under the Whig Prime Minister, Earl Grey.
		Stanley did not share Grey's enthusiasm for parliamentary reform and was one of the main reasons why he was defeated at Preston by Henry Orator Hunt in the election that was held that year.
		By 1868 the Earl of Derby was in poor health and he was forced to retire from office and was replaced by Benjamin Disraeli.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRderby1.htm (664 words)

	Edward Lear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Even if William Stanley was not actually William Shakespeare after all, it is true that his brother Ferdinand before being murdered was the benefactor of Derby’s Men and that Shakespeare was one of it’s actors if not writers.
		More to follow on this Lord Stanley who together with Edward Stanley Esq of Cross Hall were the benefactors of the land necessary for the building and functioning of the old Water Tower.
		The 13th Earl of Derby also helped found Liverpool Museum in 1851 when he donated his substantial collection of zoological specimans to it.
	homepages.tesco.net /~jane.ball2/html/edward_lear.html (164 words)

	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.
		He was the forth child and only son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Stanley,_13th_Earl_of_Derby (230 words)

	The Earl & The Pussycat - The 13th Earl of Derby's life and legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851) was one of the most prominent natural historians of his day.
		As well as being a politician, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and eminent Victorian naturalist, the Earl was a patron of the artist and nonsense poet Edward Lear, who wrote The Owl and the Pussycat for his grandchildren.
		Today, the 19th Earl of Derby continues the tradition of animal husbandry as the proprietor of Knowsley Safari Park - part of the Derby's estate in Merseyside.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/exhibitions/earl/earl.asp (609 words)

	thePeerage.com - June and others
		She married Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, on 30 June 1798.
		She married Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, son of Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby and Charlotte Margaret Hornby, on 21 March 1825.
		She married Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, son of Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby and Emma Caroline Bootle-Wilbraham, on 31 May 1864.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1383.htm (906 words)

	Earls of Derby
		As every Stanley researcher will tell you, “My grandmother always said that we were related to the Earls of Derby”.
		The ancestry of the Earls of Derby is an illustrious one indeed and well documented elsewhere.
		The history of the Earls of Derby is well documented and is beyond the scope of this web site to augment.
	stanleyorigins.org.uk /html/earls_of_derby.html (315 words)

	Clem Fisher, Curator of Birds and Mammals
		Also interested in our Founder, Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, of Knowsley Hall near Liverpool, whose bird and mammal collections were bequeathed to the people of Liverpool in 1851 and formed the basis of Liverpool's first public museum.
		Lord Derby hired Edward Lear, later known for his "Nonsense Verse" to paint his birds and mammals living in the aviaries and menagerie at Knowsley and many of his paintings and the models who "sat" for Lear still exist.
		Fisher, C.T. and Jackson, C.E. The 13th Earl of Derby as a scientist.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /wml/staff/clemfisher.asp (669 words)

	Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of — FactMonster.com
		Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of — FactMonster.com
		Derby formed another government in 1866 with Disraeli as chancellor of the exchequer and leader in the House of Commons.
		Derby never quite fulfilled the promise of his early brilliance; it was his lieutenant, Disraeli, who modernized the Conservative party in this era.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0815215.html (247 words)

	Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of — FactMonster.com
		Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of — FactMonster.com
		Derby later (1880) formally shifted his allegiance to the Liberal party and was colonial secretary (1882–85) under William Gladstone.
		He broke with the Gladstonian Liberals over the issue of Home Rule for Ireland and led the Liberal Unionists in the House of Lords until his retirement in 1891.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0815216.html (130 words)

	Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of — Infoplease.com
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