Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield

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Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 4th Baron Eddisbury MA, KCMG (14 September 1875 – 22 August 1931) was an English nobleman and Governor of Victoria from 1914 to 1920.

Stanley was the second child and first son of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield and Mary Katherine Bell. On 29 August 1905 he married Margeret Evelyn Gordon. They had five children:

• Mary Katherine Adelaide Stanley (30 May 1906 – 1981)
• Edward John Stanley (9 October 1907 – 1971), the 6th Baron
• Pamela Margeret Stanley (born 6 September 1909)
• Lyulph Henry Victor Owen Stanley (22 October 1915 – 1971), the 7th Baron
• Victoria Venitia Stanley (born 29 June 1917)

Stanley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford where obtained a BA in 1898. In 1902 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. In 1904 he became a London County Councillor and in 1906 became Liberal Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire near the family seat. Whilst an MP he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Postmaster General serving under Sydney Buxton. His sister, Venetia Stanley, was a close correspondent of the Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal party, H. H. Asquith.

In 1913 He was High Sheriff of Angelsey when he was appointed Governor of Victoria. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and took up his post in 1914. He served a five-year term and an additional year until relinquishing the post in 1920, although he had returned to Britain the previous year due to ill health. In the 1923 General election he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Knutsford, losing by 80 votes to Conservative, Sir Ernest Makins. From 1925 to 1928 he was Chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute and of the East Africa Joint Committee.

In 1925 he succeeded his father to the three baronies and was known by the Sheffield title. He died in August 1931 of a bacterial infection, actinomycosis. He was succeeded by his son Edward.

[edit] References

• Australian Dictionary of Biography - Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley
• A Scapbook of Cheshire Antiquities - Nether Alderley, The Stanley Family

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry James Tollemache	Member of Parliament for Eddisbury 1906–1910	Succeeded by Harry Barnston
Government offices
Preceded by John Fuller	Governor of Victoria 1914–1920	Succeeded by George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edward Lyulph Stanley	Baron Stanley of Alderley 1925 – 1931	Succeeded by Edward John Stanley
	Baron Eddisbury 1925 – 1931
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Edward Lyulph Stanley	Baron Sheffield 1925 – 1931	Succeeded by Edward John Stanley