Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby

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The 13th Earl of Derby
The 13th Earl of Derby

Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby KG (21 April 177530 June 1851), styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832 and known as The Lord Stanley from 1832 to 1834, was an English politician, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist.

He was the fourth child and only son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton. On 30 June 1798 he married Charlotte Margaret Hornby, daughter of Reverend Geoffrey Hornby.

Lord Stanley was Member of Parliament for Preston and Lancashire from 1796 to 1832, when he was ennobled as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster. In 1834 he succeeded his father as 13th Earl of Derby and withdrew from politics, instead concentrating on his natural history collection at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. He had a large collection of living animals: at his death there were 1,272 birds and 345 mammals at Knowsley, shipped to England by explorers such as Joseph Burke.

Lord Derby was also the patron of the writer Edward Lear.

Many of Derby's collections are now housed in Liverpool museum.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
New Creation
Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe
1832–1851
Succeeded by
Edward Smith-Stanley
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edward Smith-Stanley
Earl of Derby
1834–1851
Succeeded by
Edward Smith-Stanley
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