Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (13 November 180216 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
John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley (26 November 1766 – 23 October 1850), known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was a British peer and politician.
Life
Stanley was the son of Sir John Thomas Stanley FRSE (1 ...
, and
Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of
John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield
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Biography
His grandfather was Isaac Holroyd (164 ...
. He was educated at
Eton College
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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.
Political career
Stanley entered the
House of Commons
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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
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as
Patronage Secretary to the Treasury from 1835 to 1841, as
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
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in 1841 and as
Paymaster-General
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History
The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the posit ...
in 1841 and under
Lord John Russell
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as
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1846 and 1852.
[ He was sworn of the ]Privy Council
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in 1841 and in 1848, two years before he succeeded to the barony of Stanley, he was created Baron Eddisbury, of Winnington in the County Palatine of Chester.''The London gazette'', 9 May 1848
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Stanley was President of the Board of Trade
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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
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* United Kingdom, later renamed the National Savings and Investments
* Singapore, later renamed POSB Bank
* ...
.
Family
Lord Stanley of Alderley married Henrietta Maria (21 December 180716 February 1895), a daughter of Viscount Dillon
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, in 1826. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley had ten children:
* Henry Edward John, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1827–1903)
* Alice Margaret (1828–1910), wife of Augustus Pitt Rivers
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* (Henrietta) Blanche (1830–1921), later Countess of Airlie, wife of David Ogilvy
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; a grandmother of Clementine Churchill, and a great-grandmother of the Mitford sisters
* Maude Alethea (1832–1915)
* Cecilia (died 1839)
* John Constantine (1837–78)
* Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1839–1925)
* Algernon Charles (1843–1928), Roman Catholic Bishop of Emmaus (''in partibus
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'')
* Katherine Louisa (1844–74), later Viscountess Amberley, wife of John Russell, Viscount Amberley
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; mother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell
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* 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)
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