Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley

Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury PC (1839 1925) was an English peer.

He was the son of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, and the former Henrietta Dillon-Lee. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.

Stanley (then known as the Honourable Edward Lyulph Stanley) contested Oldham, in the Liberal interest, at elections in 1872, 1874, 1880 and 1885. He only won the 1880 contest and served in the House of Commons during the 1880-1885 Parliament. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1910.

Stanley was a member of the London School Board from 1876 to 1885 and also from 1888 to 1896. He wrote a book Our National Education (1899).[1][2]

References

  1. "STANLEY of Alderley, 4th Baron". Who's Who, 59: p. 1662. 1907.
  2. The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley (1899). Our National Education. London: James Nisbet & Co., Ltd.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Frederick Lowten Spinks
John Tomlinson Hibbert
Member of Parliament for Oldham
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With: John Tomlinson Hibbert
Succeeded by
James Mackenzie Maclean
John Tomlinson Hibbert
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Stanley
Baron Stanley of Alderley and Baron Eddisbury
1903 1925
Succeeded by
Arthur Lyulph Stanley
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Henry North Holroyd
Baron Sheffield
1909 1925
Succeeded by
Arthur Lyulph Stanley