Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley (1894-1938)

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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.

Stanley was first elected to Parliament in a by-election for Liverpool Abercromby in 1917 until 1918 and was the youngest member of the House of Commons. From 1922 he represented Fylde. He served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury 1924-27; Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 1927-29; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1931-1935; and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs from 1935.

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. Another son, Richard Stanley, was Conservative MP for North Fylde from 1950 to 1966.

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

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Chaloner	Member of Parliament for Abercromby 1917–1918	Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Preceded by Wilfrid Ashley	Member of Parliament for Fylde 1922–1938	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 Richard Austen 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