Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley

The Lord Stanley of Alderley
The Right Honourable; The Lord Stanley of Alderley; PC
	Lord Stanley of Alderley, 1856.
Ministerial offices
Postmaster General
	In office; 17 August 1860 – 26 June 1866
Prime Minister	The Viscount Palmerston ; The Earl Russell
Preceded by	The Earl of Elgin
Succeeded by	The Duke of Montrose
President of the Board of Trade
	In office; 31 March 1855 – 21 February 1858
Prime Minister	The Viscount Palmerston
Preceded by	Edward Cardwell
Succeeded by	Joseph Warner Henley
Paymaster-General; Vice-President of the Board of Trade
	In office; 5 January 1853 – 30 January 1855
Prime Minister	The Earl of Aberdeen
Preceded by	Charles Abbot
Succeeded by	Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
	In office; 12 February 1852 – 21 February 1852
Prime Minister	The Earl Russell
Preceded by	Granville Leveson-Gower
Succeeded by	Charles Abbot
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
	In office; 6 July 1846 – 12 February 1852
Prime Minister	The Earl Russell
Preceded by	George Smythe
Succeeded by	Austen Henry Layard
Paymaster-General
	In office; 19 June 1841 – 30 August 1841
Prime Minister	The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by	Sir Henry Parnell, Bt.
Succeeded by	Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
	In office; 21 April 1835 – 19 June 1841
Prime Minister	The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by	Sir George Clerk
Succeeded by	Sir Denis Le Marchant
Parliamentary offices
Member of Parliament; for North Cheshire
	In office; 26 August 1847 – 8 June 1848
Preceded by	George Legh
Succeeded by	George Legh
	In office; 8 January 1833 – 22 July 1841
Preceded by	constituency established
Succeeded by	George Legh
Member of Parliament; for Hindon
	In office; 1 June 1831 – 8 January 1833
Preceded by	George Matthew Fortescue
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	13 November 1802
Died	16 June 1869 (aged 66)
Nationality	British
Political party	Whig ; Liberal
Spouse(s)	Hon. Henrietta Dillon-Lee (m. 1826)
Children	10
Parents	John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley; Lady Maria Holroyd
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley PC (13 November 1802 – 16 June 1869), known as The Lord Eddisbury between 1848 and 1850, was a British politician.

Background

Stanley was the son of John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, and Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield.[1] He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[2]

Political career

Stanley entered the House of Commons as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Hindon in 1831 and was later member for North Cheshire between 1832 and 1841, and between 1847 and 1848. He served under Lord Melbourne as Patronage Secretary to the Treasury from 1835 to 1841, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1841 and as Paymaster-General in 1841 and under Lord John Russell as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1846 and 1852.[3] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1841[4] and in 1848, two years before he succeeded to the barony of Stanley, he was created Baron Eddisbury, of Winnington[3] in the County Palatine of Chester.[5]

Stanley was President of the Board of Trade under Lord Palmerston from 1855 to 1858, and Postmaster-General under Palmerston and then Lord John Russell from 1860 to 1866. In 1861 he established the Post Office Savings Bank.

Family

Lord Stanley of Alderley married Henrietta Maria (21 December 1807 – 16 February 1895), a daughter of Viscount Dillon, in 1826. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley had ten children:

Henry Edward John, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1827–1903)
Hon. Alice Margaret (1828–1910), wife of Augustus Pitt Rivers
Hon. (Henrietta) Blanche (1830–1921), later Countess of Airlie, wife of David Ogilvy; a grandmother of Clementine Churchill, and a great-grandmother of the Mitford sisters
Hon. Maude Alethea (1832–1915)
Hon. Cecilia (died 1839)
Hon. John Constantine (1837–78)
Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1839–1925)
Hon. Algernon Charles (1843–1928), Roman Catholic Bishop of Emmaus (in partibus)
Hon. Katherine Louisa (1844–74), later Viscountess Amberley, wife of John Russell, Viscount Amberley; mother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell
Hon. Rosalind Frances (1845–1921), later Countess of Carlisle, became the chatelaine of Castle Howard and a radical temperance campaigner.

Lord Stanley of Alderley died in June 1869, aged 66, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry. Lady Stanley of Alderley died in February 1895, aged 87.

In the 1930s his family's letters were published by his descendant Nancy Mitford as:

The Ladies of Alderley: Letters 1841–1850 (Hamish Hamilton, 1938)
The Stanleys of Alderley: Their letters 1851–1865 (Chapman & Hall, 1939)

References

Stern, Marvin. "Stanley, Lady Maria Josepha". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74489. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Cook, C. and Keith, B., (1975). British Historical Facts 1830-1900. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd. p.88.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stanley (Family) s.v. Edward John Stanley, 2nd baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 777.
The London Gazette, 13 August 1841
The London gazette, 9 May 1848

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Stanley

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Fortescue John Weyland	Member of Parliament for Hindon 1831–1832 With: John Weyland	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for North Cheshire 1832–1841 With: William Egerton	Succeeded by William Tatton Egerton George Legh
Preceded by William Egerton George Legh	Member of Parliament for North Cheshire 1847–1848 With: William Egerton	Succeeded by William Egerton George Legh
Political offices
Preceded by Viscount Howick	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1834	Succeeded by W. Gregson
Preceded by Sir George Clerk, Bt	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1835–1841	Succeeded by Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bt
Preceded by Sir Henry Parnell, Bt	Paymaster-General 1841	Succeeded by Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt
Preceded by George Smythe	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1846–1852	Succeeded by Austen Henry Layard
Preceded by The Earl Granville	Paymaster-General Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1852	Succeeded by The Lord Colchester
Preceded by The Lord Colchester	Paymaster-General Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1853–1855	Succeeded by Edward Pleydell Bouverie
Preceded by Edward Cardwell	President of the Board of Trade 1855–1858	Succeeded by Joseph Warner Henley
Preceded by The Earl of Elgin	Postmaster General 1860–1866	Succeeded by The Duke of Montrose
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Eddisbury 1848–1869	Succeeded by Henry Stanley
Preceded by John Stanley	Baron Stanley of Alderley 1850–1869	Succeeded by Henry Stanley

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[1] Stern, Marvin. "Stanley, Lady Maria Josepha". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74489. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Cook, C. and Keith, B., (1975). British Historical Facts 1830-1900. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd. p.88.

[EB1911-3] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stanley (Family) s.v. Edward John Stanley, 2nd baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 777.

[4] The London Gazette, 13 August 1841

[5] The London gazette, 9 May 1848