Hans Stanley

Hans Stanley (23 September 1721 – 12 January 1780), was a British politician and statesman.

Stanley was christened on 9 October 1721 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. In 1761 Stanley was Chargé d'affaires at the Embassy to France. See:List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to France. He was appointed to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on 17 June 1762 and became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom the same year. From 1766 to 1767 he was an Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Russia. Stanley was the Cofferer of the Household for two terms: 1766–1774 and 1776–1780. He was elected Member of Parliament for Southampton on 15 April 1754, a seat he maintained until his death. Hans Stanley committed suicide by cutting his throat, “ in a sudden fit of frenzy”, at Althorp, the home of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer in Northamptonshire. He was the grandson of Sir Hans Sloane and the first cousin one time removed of John 'Mad Jack' Fuller.

[edit] References

MacDonald, Michael; Terence R. Murphy (1994). Sleepless Souls: suicide in early modern England. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198229194.

Political offices
Preceded by Earl of Scarbrough	Cofferer of the Household 1766–1774	Succeeded by Jeremiah Dyson
Preceded by Jeremiah Dyson	Cofferer of the Household 1776–1780	Succeeded by Lord Beauchamp