Jane Wigham
Jane Wigham( née Smeal; 1801–1888) was a leading Scottish abolitionist.
She was the stepmother of Eliza Wigham and the second wife of John Wigham.
Verona Barnes
Verona Barnes( born December 29, 1946) is an American actress who appeared in multiple New York City theater plays.
She is the stepmother of actress Rachel True.
Her roles include Mrs. Harris and the Street Person in" All God's Chillun Got Wings," as well as Jack's friend in" The Great White Hope".
Henriette Feuerbach
Henriette Feuerbach( 13 August 1812 – 5 August 1892) was a German author and arts patron.
She was the wife of Joseph Anselm Feuerbach and the stepmother of painter Anselm Feuerbach, whom she supported in his art.
Dorothy Granger
Dorothy Karolyn Granger( November 21, 1911 – January 4, 1995) was an American actress best known for her roles in short subject comedies in Hollywood.
She was also the stepmother of film maker and former record producer Anthony J. Hilder.
Susan Moody
Susan Moody( born 1940 in Oxford) is the principal" nom de plume" of Susan Elizabeth Horwood, an English novelist best known for her suspense novels.
After marrying Professor John Dalgleish Donaldson in 2001, she became the stepmother of his four children, including Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, (1435 – 29 July 1504) was an English nobleman and politician.
He was a titular King of Mann, and stepfather to King Henry VII of England.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill.
A landed magnate of immense power, particularly across the northwest of England where his authority went almost unchallenged, even by the Crown
, Stanley managed to remain in favour with successive kings throughout the Wars of the Roses until his death in 1504.
His estates included what is now Tatton Park in Cheshire, Lathom House in Lancashire, and Derby House in the City of London,
now the site of the College of Arms.
Although the king for the early part of his career, Henry VI, was head of the House of Lancaster, Stanley's marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (a descendant of Edward III) and sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (‘Warwick the Kingmaker’)
in the late 1450s constituted a powerful alliance with the House of York.
This did him no harm, however, even after Warwick was toppled from power, and in 1472, with the House of York again occupying the English throne, he married his second wife Lady Margaret Beaufort, whose son, Henry Tudor, was the leading Lancastrian claimant.
He was the last to use the style ‘King of Mann’, his successors opting for the safer ‘Lord of Mann’.
Stanley was “a man of considerable acumen, and probably the most successful power-broker of his age”.
May Green Hinckley
May Green Hinckley( May 1, 1881 – May 2, 1943) was the third general president of the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints( LDS Church) from 1940 until her death.
She was the stepmother of Gordon B. Hinckley, fifteenth president of the LDS Church.
Peju Ogunmola
Peju Ogunmola is a Yoruba film actress who stars in Nollywood movies of Yoruba genres.
Her father was the veteran actor Kola Ogunmola.
She is the wife of Sunday Omobolanle, a 64- year- old Nigerian comic actor, playwright, film director, and producer.
She is the stepmother of Sunkanmi Omobolanle who is also an actor.
Irene Baker
Edith Irene Bailey Baker( November 17, 1901 – April 2, 1994) was an American politician and a United States Representative from Tennessee.
She was the widow of Howard Baker Sr. and the stepmother of Howard Baker Jr.
James Stanley (bishop)
James Stanley (c. 1465–1515), scion of a distinguished aristocratic family, was Bishop of Ely from 1506 to 1515.
His father was Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.
Described as the tallest man in England and reputed to be some 6 feet 7 inches tall, he took holy orders after university study, but, although regarded as a popular man, was not considered either a natural scholar or celibate.
(There is an apocryphal story of Erasmus turning him down as a pupil.)
Like most senior churchmen of his period, he was a pluralist and is believed to have lived with a woman, fathering at least one illegitimate child.
Besides being renowned as a skilled soldier and an enthusiastic huntsman, he is also credited with a great interest in cockfighting.
He was cited in Protestant propaganda of later centuries as an example of the corruption of the Medieval Church, although his decision to take orders can hardly have been voluntary, but rather a further means of consolidating the dynastic ambitions of his already powerful family.
His appointment as bishop was made by papal bull of Pope Julius II.
He held the office Master or St James and St John Hospital at Brackley from 1472 and of Archdeacon of Richmond from 1500 to 1506.
He was buried in a tomb in what is now Manchester Cathedral, then a collegiate church, patronised by several generations of the Stanley family, and which he had enriched as Warden.
The tomb, together with the Ely Chapel that housed it, was destroyed during the Blitz although the original, contemporary brass memorial has survived.
There is also a memorial for the safe return of his alleged son (and certainly kinsman)
Sir John Stanley from the Battle of Flodden in 1513;
the St John the Baptist chapel, which incorporates the original site of the Ely Chapel, was built by James and John.
The Stanley coat of arms can still be seen decorating the roof of this chapel, which is now dedicated to the memory of the Manchester Regiment.
He died on 22 March 1515 and was later remembered thus:
From the "Ancient Metrical History of the House of Stanley".

Question: Who is the stepmother of James Stanley (Bishop)?
Answer: Lady Margaret Beaufort