George Frederick Stanley

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Lieut-Colonel Sir George Frederick Stanley PC GCSI GCIE CMG (14 October 1872 - 1 July 1938) was a British soldier and politician.

The sixth son of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Stanley was educated at Wellington and at Woolwich. In 1903 he married Lady Beatrix Taylour, CBE CI, youngest daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Headfort.

He entered the Royal Horse Artillery in 1893 and was promoted to Captain in 1900. He served in South Africa in 1899-1900 and was Adjutant with the Honourable Artillery Company from 1904-1909. He later served in World War I and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the CMG in 1916.

He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Preston from 1910-1922 and for Willesden East from 1924-1929.

He held office as Comptroller of the Household from 1919 until 1921, as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1921-1922, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1922-1923, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions from 1924-1929. He was Governor of Madras from 1929-1934.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1927 and made a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE) in 1929 and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1934.

[edit] Offices held

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Thomas Macpherson Harold Cox	Member of Parliament for Preston 2-seat constituency (with: Alfred Aspinall Tobin 1910–1915 Urban H. Broughton 1915–1918 Thomas Shaw 1918–1922–) 1910–1922	Succeeded by James Philp Hodge Thomas Shaw
Preceded by Harcourt Johnstone	Member of Parliament for Willesden East 1924–1929	Succeeded by Daniel Gerald Somerville
Political offices
Preceded by Sir Edwin Cornwall	Comptroller of the Household 1919–1921	Succeeded by Harry Barnston