• Thumbnail for Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
    Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby KG GCMG PC PC (Ire) (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869), known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851...
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    Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, JP (4 April 1865 – 4 February 1948), styled Mr Edward Stanley until 1886, then...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby
    Edward Richard William Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby, DL (born 10 October 1962) is a British hereditary peer and landowner. He was a member of the House...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
    Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby KG (c. 10 May 1509 – 24 October 1572) was an English nobleman and politician. He succeeded his father as Lord of Mann...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
    Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby PC (1 September 1752 O.S. – 21 October 1834), usually styled Lord Stanley from 1771 to 1776, was a British peer...
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  • Thumbnail for Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
    Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, KG, GCB, GCVO, PC (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908), known as Lord Stanley of Preston between 1886 and 1893...
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  • Thumbnail for James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
    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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  • Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby (before 1485 – 23 May 1521) was an English nobleman, politician, and peer. Thomas Stanley was the eldest son of George...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby
    the trials of Mary, Queen of Scots and the Earl of Arundel. Born in Lathom, Henry was the eldest son of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby and his second...
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  • Thumbnail for Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby
    Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (née Lady Margaret Clifford; 1540 – 28 September 1596) was the only surviving daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland...
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  • Thumbnail for Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of Derby
    before her marriage to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby. Her wedding or (more likely) that of Elizabeth Carey to Thomas, son of Lord Berkeley, was the occasion...
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  • Thumbnail for William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
    William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, KG (1561 – 29 September 1642) was an English nobleman and politician. Stanley inherited a prominent social position...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley (died 1938)
    his stead. Stanley was born in Marylebone, London, the eldest son and heir apparent of Edward Stanley, later to become 17th Earl of Derby, by Lady Alice...
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  • Thumbnail for Second Derby–Disraeli ministry
    government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1858 and ended in 1859 was led by Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Alice Stanley, Countess of Derby
    married Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe. Lord Stanley succeeded to his father's title of Earl of Derby in 1908, whereupon she became Countess of Derby. They had...
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  • Thumbnail for Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby
    Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (1559 – 16 April 1594), was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, and...
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  • Thumbnail for James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange
    his father had any claim to it. He was the eldest son of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby, whose predecessor's heirs had used that courtesy title, but...
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  • George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange, of Knockin, KG, KB (1460–1503) was an English nobleman and heir apparent of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. He was...
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  • Thumbnail for Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby
    titles and estates passed to Sir Edward Stanley (1689–1776), a descendant of the 1st Earl. From him the later Earls of Derby are descended. Not all historians...
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  • Thumbnail for Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven
    Anne Stanley (May 1580 – c. 8 October 1647) was an English noblewoman. She was the eldest daughter of the Earl of Derby and, through her two marriages...
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    race) is named after Edward Smith-Stanley, the 12th Earl. Note that the term 'local Derby' actually comes from the town of Derby. There still remains...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
    Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (/də ˈvɪər/; 12 April 1550 – 24 June 1604), was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era. Oxford was heir...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax
    Lieutenant of Humberside and High Steward of York Minster. Wood was the son of Edward Wood M.P., a Conservative politician, later created Earl of Halifax...
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  • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,[citation needed] and Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby.[citation needed] He was brought up at Swinford Paddocks,...
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    Salisbury and the earls of Derby. Although the Cavendish family estates are centred in Derbyshire, they hold the titles of "Duke of Devonshire" and their...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Port Stanley, Ontario
    settled in what is now Port Stanley in 1804. Around 1824, it was renamed Port Stanley after Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who had visited nearby...
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  • Thumbnail for Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
    (died 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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  • Thumbnail for Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Monteagle
    of Flodden. Born about 1460, he was fifth son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, by his first wife Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of...
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