Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley (1894-1938)

Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, Lord Stanley PC MC (9 July 1894 – 16 October 1938) was the eldest son of Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby and Alice Maude Olivia Montagu, daughter of William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, and a Conservative politician before his early death (predeceasing his father) in 1938.

In May 1938 he was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs by Neville Chamberlain, serving in the same Cabinet as his brother Oliver, who was President of the Board of Trade. Five months later he died aged only 44.

He was succeeded as heir to the Earldom of Derby by his son Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley.

Stanley had also been Chairman and President of the Junior Imperial League.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Richard Chaloner	Member for Abercromby 1917–1918	Succeeded by: Constituency abolished
Preceded by: Wilfrid Ashley	Member for Fylde 1922–1924	Succeeded by: Claude Lancaster
Political offices
Preceded by: The Earl Stanhope	Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1931–1935	Succeeded by: Sir Victor Warrender
Preceded by: Malcolm MacDonald	Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs 1935	Succeeded by: Douglas Hacking
Preceded by: Sir Victor Warrender	Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1935–1937	Succeeded by: Geoffrey Shakespeare
Preceded by: Rab Butler	Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma 1937–1938	Succeeded by: Anthony Muirhead
Preceded by: Malcolm MacDonald	Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs 1938	Succeeded by: Malcolm MacDonald
Military Offices
Preceded by: Sir Walter de Frece	Colonel of the 9th Batallion of the Manchester Regiment 1936–1938	Succeeded by: Oliver Stanley

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