James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (3 July 16641 February 1736), styled The Honourable until 1702, was a British peer, soldier and politician. He became

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and served in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade.

Early life

Derby was the second son of

Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, 2nd Baron Strange (19 January 1628 – 21 December 1672), was an English nobleman and politician. He was the eldest son of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and Charlotte de La Trémouille. Life As Lord Stran ...

, and Dorothea Helena Kirkhoven, born on 3 July 1664.''Burke's'': 'Derby'. He was elected to the

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for

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in 1685, a seat he held until 1689, and then represented Preston from 1689 to 1690 and

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from 1695 to 1702. He held the post of

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to King William III from 1689 to 1702.

Military career

Having served in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade with William III in Holland and Flanders (1686–88), he was commissioned as a

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and Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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on 11 April 1689. When his elder brother, the 9th Earl of Derby, as

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was ordered to call out the

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, Lt-Col James Stanley commanded the brigade (three regiments of foot and three troops of horse) in the subsequent campaign in Ireland in 1690–91. When the Lancashire Militia returned home to be disembodied at the end of the campaign, and Stanley was ordered to Flanders to join Colonel Hodges' Regiment as second-in-command, he induced a large number of his militiamen to volunteer to fill vacancies in the regiment. After Col Hodges was killed at the

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in 1692, Stanley succeeded to the command, and the regiment became 'Stanleys' (later the

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). He remained its colonel until 1705.Childs, p. 354.Frederick, p. 229. He was promoted to major general in 1704.

Political career

In 1702, he succeeded his elder brother as 10th Earl of Derby and entered the

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. In 1732, he succeeded his great-niece as sixth

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. Derby was admitted to the Privy Council in 1706 and appointed

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, a position he retained until 1710, and was later

from 1715 to 1723. He also served as

during 1702–1710 and 1714–1736.

Family life

In February 1705 he married Mary Morley, only daughter of Sir William Morley of Halnaker and his second wife Anne Denham, daughter of the celebrated poet

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and his first wife Anne Cotton. He died on 1 February 1736, aged 68, without surviving issue (his only son, William, born 31 January 1710, died on 4 March following). The Earl was succeeded in the earldom by his distant relative

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. The barony of Strange and lordship of the

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') passed on to his first cousin once removed,

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(His grand-mother was Amelia Stanley). Lady Derby died on 29 March 1752.

Notes

References

* ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. * John Childs, ''The Nine Years War and the British Army 1688–97: The Operations in the Low Countries'', Manchester: University Press, 1991, . * J.B.M. Frederick, ''Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978'', Vol I, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, . * Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
Maj R.J.T. Williamson & Col J. Lawson Whalley, ''History of the Old County Regiment of Lancashire Militia'', London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1888.
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