SMITH STANLEY, Edward George Geoffrey (1799-1869).

Family and Education

b. 29 Mar. 1799, 1st s. of Edward Smith Stanley, Lord Stanley* (later 13th earl of Derby), and Charlotte Margaret, da. of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby, rect. of Winwick, Lancs. educ. Eton 1811; Christ Church, Oxf. 1817, DCL 1852; continental tour 1821-2, N. American tour 1824-5. m. 31 May 1825, Emma Caroline, da. of Edward Bootle Wilbraham*, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). styled. Lord Stanley 1834-44; summ. to Lords in his fa.’s barony as Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe 4 Nov. 1844; suc. fa. as 14th earl of Derby 30 June 1851; KG 28 June 1859; GCMG 25 Mar. 1869. d. 23 Oct. 1869.

Offices Held

Under-sec. of state for war and colonies Sept. 1827 – Jan. 1828; PC 22 Nov. 1830, PC [I] 10 Jan. 1831; chief sec. to ld. lt. [I] Nov. 1830 – Mar. 1833, with seat in cabinet June 1831; sec. of state for war and colonies Apr. 1833 – May 1834, Sept. 1841 – Dec. 1845; first ld. of treasury 27 Feb. – 28 Dec. 1852, 26 Feb. 1858 – 18 June 1859, 6 July 1866–29 Feb. 1868.

Ld. rect. Glasgow Univ. 1834 – 36; Sloane trustee, Brit. Mus. 1835 – 66; chan. Oxf. Univ. 1852 – d.; elder bro. Trinity House 1852 – d.

Parlimentarian

SMITH STANLEY, Edward George Geoffrey (1799-1869).

Notes

Apart from short lives by T. E. Kebbel (1890) and G. Saintsbury (1892), for many years the only study was W.D. Jones, Lord Derby and Victorian Conservatism (1956). However, there is now The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby, i Ascent: 1799-1851 (2007) by Angus Hawkins, in addition to his article on ‘Lord Derby’ in Lords of Parl. ed. R.W. Davis, 134-62, and his entry on Derby in Oxford DNB.

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S.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1820-1832

Web Title

SMITH STANLEY, Edward George Geoffrey (1799-1869)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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