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SIR JAMES STANSFELD (182o-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR JAMES STANSFELD (182o-1898)  ,
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English politician, was born at Moorlands, Halifax, on the 5th of
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October 182o, the son of James Stansfeld, a county-court judge . Educated at University College,
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London, he was called to the bar in 1849 . In 1847 he was introduced through his
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father-in-law, W . H . Ashurst, to Mazzini, with whom he formed a close friendship . In 1859 he was returned to parliament as Radical member for Halifax, which
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town he continued to represent for over
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thirty-six years . He voted consistently on the Radical side, but his chief energies were devoted to promoting the cause of
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Italian unity . He was selected by Garibaldi as his adviser when the Italian patriot visited England in 1862 . In 1863 he moved in the House of
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Commons a
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resolution of sympathy with the Poles, and two months later was made a junior lord of the admiralty . In 1864, as the result of charges made against him by the French authorities, in connexion with
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Greco's cdnspiracy against
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Napoleon III., Disraeli, in the House of Commons, accused him of being " in correspondence with the assassins of
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Europe." Stansfeld was vigorously defended by Bright and Forster, and his explanation was accepted as quite satisfactory by Palmerston . Nevertheless he only escaped a
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vote of censure by ten votes, and accordingly resigned office . In 1865 he was re-elected for Halifax, and in 1866 became under-secretary of state for India .

In the first

Gladstone administration he held a variety of public offices, finally becoming, in 1871, the first president of the
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local government board . The remainder of his
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life was mainly spent in endeavouring to secure the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, and in 1886 this
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object was attained . In the same
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year Stansfeld again became president of the local government board . He died on the 17th of
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February 1898 .

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