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See also: ancient and historic See also: English See also: family derived its name from See also: Stanley in See also: Leek (in the See also: Staffordshire " moorlands ")
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Its first known ancestor is See also: Adam de Stanley, See also: brother of Liulf de Audley, ancestor of the lords Audley, who lived in the See also: time of See also: King
See also: Stephen
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His descendant See also: William de
Stanley acquired the forestership of Wirral, with an heiress, in 1284, and was ancestor of two
See also: brothers, See also: Sir William and Sir See also: John Stanley
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The former married the heiress of Hooton in Wirral and was ancestor of the Stanleys of Hooton, whose baronetcy, created in 1661, became
See also: extinct in 1893
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The younger brother was See also: lieutenant of See also: Ireland under See also: Richard II. and See also: Henry IV., obtained from the latter the Isle of
See also: Man in See also: fee, built a fortified See also: house at Liverpool, and became K.G
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He married the heiress of the Lathoms, a native family who had held Lathom in thanage from the See also: Conquest at least and Knowsley by knight-service from the 12th century
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His See also: grandson See also: Thomas was
See also: father of the first See also: earl of See also: Derby (see DERBY, EARLS OF) and of Sir William Stanley of See also: Holt, whose See also: great See also: wealth led to his execution for treason in 1495, and also of Sir John Stanley, ancestor of the Stanleys of Alderley, who obtained a baronetcy in 166o and a See also: barony in 1839
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Of the second earl's younger brothers, Sir See also: Edward was raised to the See also: peerage as See also: Lord Monteagle in 1514 for his services at See also: Flodden, but the dignity passed with an heiress to the Parkers in 1581; and Sir See also: James was ancestor of the Stanleys of Bickerstaffe, who obtained a baronetcy in 1628 and succeeded to the earldom in 1736
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Their father had married the heiress of Lord
See also: Strange of Knockyn, and was summoned in that peerage from 1482 to 1497, but did not live to inherit the earldom
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His wife was a first See also: cousin of Henry VII.'s See also: queen
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The 4th earl ,was summoned as Lord Strange, in his father's lifetime, as was the 5th earl, but the barony See also: fell into See also: abeyance between his three daughters, who contested possession of the family estates with his brother, the 6th earl
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He bought out their rights in the Isle of Man, and, by his See also: marriage with a See also: sister and co-heir of the 18th earl of See also: Oxford, acquired a claim to the great chamberlainship, which he advanced in 1626 and which was renewed by their descendants
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His son was summoned as Lord Strange in 1628 in the erroneous belief that the family retained the dignity, and a fresh barony of Strange was thus created
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But on the See also: death of the loth earl (1736) this barony, with the lordship of Man and other great estates, passed to the 2nd duke of Atholl, whose heir, the See also: present duke, holds the title
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The earldom with large estates in See also: Lancashire, passed to the heir male (see above)
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Although the present wealth of the Stanleys is largely derived from the great See also: industrial development of Lancashire, they were already a power to be reckoned with in that county and in See also: Cheshire at the time of the See also: Wars of the See also: Roses, and have held a leading position ever since among English nobles
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.For three centuries they were in succession lords-lieutenant of Lancashire and occasionally of Cheshire as well, and they have always lived in considerable See also: state
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Lathom House, their ancient seat, in the See also: hundred of West Derby (whence possibly the See also: style of their earldom), was wrecked in the See also: Civil War, and, though rebuilt by the ninth earl, was sold by his daughters
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But Knowsley, with its great See also: park, is still theirs, lying to the See also: east of Liverpool, in which their feudal tower still stood in 1821
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See See also: Young's Hundred of Wirral (Liverpool, 1909) ; Round's Peerage and See also: Pedigree (See also: London, 1910); County Histories of Lancashire and Cheshire, and See also: works on the peerage passim
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The barony of STANLEY OF ALDERLEY was created in 1839 for Sir John Thomas Stanley, See also: Bart
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(1766-1850), of Alderley Park, Cheshire, a brother of Edward Stanley (1779–1849), See also: bishop of Norwich and father of Arthur See also: Penrhyn Stanley
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A member of parliament and a• See also: fellow of the Royal Society, he married Maria Josepha (d
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1863), daughter of John See also: Holroyd,1st earl of Sheffield
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Their eldest son, Edward John Stanley, 2nd baron (1802–1869), entered the House of See also: Commons in 1831 and became under-secretary to the home department in 1841, patronage secretary to the See also: treasury from 1835 to 1841, paymaster-general in 1841, and under-secretary for See also: foreign affairs from 1846 to 1852
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In 1848, two years before he succeeded to the barony of Stanley, he was created Baron Eddisbury of Winnington
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He was president of the See also: board of See also: trade from 1855 to 1858, and postmaster-general from x86o to 1866
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His wife, Henrietta Maria (1807–1895), a daughter of Henry See also: Augustus Dillon-See also: Lee, 13th Viscount Dillon,was a remarkable woman
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Before her marriage in 1826 she had lived in Florence, and had attended the receptions of the countess of Albany, the widow of
See also: Charles Edward, the Young Pretender; and in London she had great influence in social and
See also: political circles
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When he was patronage secretary her See also: husband was described by Lord Palmerston as " joint-See also: whip with Mrs Stanley." Later in See also: life Lady Stanley of Alderley helped to found the See also: Women's Liberal Unionist Association, and she was a strenuous worker for the higher See also: education of women, helping to establish Girton See also: College, Cambridge, the Girls' Public See also: Day School See also: Company, and the Medical College for Women
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She died on the 16th of See also: February 1895
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Her younger son, Edward Lyulph Stanley (b
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1839), who in 1903 succeeded his brother Henry Edward John (1827–1903) as 4th baron, had previously had an active career as an educationist and a Liberal politician
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He was a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and was M.P. for Oldham from 1880 to 1885 . He was for many years a member of the London School Board . In 1909 on the death of the 3rd earl of Sheffield, he inherited the barony of Sheffield, and that of Stanley of Alderley now became merged in it . |
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