Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
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Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby KG (21 April 1775 – 30 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. The Derbyan Parakeet, Psittacula derbiana, is named after him.
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.
After receiving his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, 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.
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
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| Preceded by William Cunliffe Shawe and Sir Henry Philip Hoghton |
Member of Parliament for Preston with Sir Henry Philip Hoghton 1796–1800 |
Succeeded by (Parliament of Great Britain abolished) |
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (self in Parliament of Great Britain) |
Member of Parliament for Preston with Sir Henry Philip Hoghton 1801–1802; John Horrocks 1802–1804; Samuel Horrocks 1804–1812 1801–1812 |
Succeeded by Edmund Hornby Samuel Horrocks |
| Preceded by Thomas Stanley John Blackburne |
Member of Parliament for Lancashire with John Blackburne 1812–1830 John Wilson-Patten 1830–1831 Benjamin Heywood 1831–1832 1812–1832 |
Succeeded by (constituency abolished) |
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Title last held by
The Duke of Hamilton |
Vice-Admiral of Lancashire 1831–1851 |
Vacant |
| Preceded by The Earl of Derby |
Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire 1834–1851 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Sefton |
| Peerage of England | ||
| Preceded by Edward Smith-Stanley |
Earl of Derby 1834–1851 |
Succeeded by Edward Smith-Stanley |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New title | Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe 1832–1851 |
Succeeded by Edward Smith-Stanley |
