Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (21 April 1775 – 30 June 1851), KG, of Knowsley Hall in Lancashire (styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832, known as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe from 1832-4), was a politician, peer, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist.
He was the patron of the writer Edward Lear.
Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby
Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby( 27 September 1689 – 22 February 1776), known as Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet, from 1714 to 1736, was a British nobleman, peer, and politician.
Derby was the son of Sir Thomas Stanley, 4th Baronet, and Elizabeth Patten, and succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1714.
This branch of the Stanley family, known as the" Stanleys of Bickerstaffe", were descended from Sir James Stanley, younger brother of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1723.
He was elected to the House of Commons for Lancashire in 1727, a seat he held until 1736, when he succeeded his distant relative James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, as eleventh Earl of Derby, and took his seat in the House of Lords.
He later served as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire from 1741 to 1757 and again from 1771 to 1776.
Lord Derby married Elizabeth Hesketh, daughter of Robert Hesketh, in 1714.
He died in February 1776, aged 86, and was succeeded in the earldom by his grandson Edward, his son James Smith- Stanley, Lord Strange, having predeceased him.
His daughter, Lady Charlotte Stanley, married General John Burgoyne.
His great- great- grandson Edward Smith- Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, was three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Seymour Egerton, 4th Earl of Wilton
Seymour John Grey
" Sim" Egerton, 4th Earl of Wilton( 20 January 1839 – 3 January 1898) was a peer of the United Kingdom from the Egerton family.
He was the owner and namesake of the Lord Wilton violin.
A musician, he was an associate of Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan.
His wife Laura Caroline( 1842 – 1916), daughter of William Russell and Emma Campbell, was a noted beauty in the contemporary society scene.
They married on 9 August 1862 and had two children, Arthur George Egerton, 5th Earl of Wilton( 1863 – 1915), and Elizabeth Emma Geraldine Egerton( 1865 – 1953).
After his death, in 1899, his wife married Sir Frederick John William Johnstone.
His elder brother was Arthur Egerton, 3rd Earl of Wilton.
His father was Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton( 1799 – 1882) and his mother was Lady Mary Margaret Stanley, daughter of Edward Smith- Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby.
His paternal grandfather was Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster.
Emma Caroline Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby
Emma Caroline Smith- Stanley( 1805 – 26 April 1876) was the Countess of Derby as the wife of Edward Smith- Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times in the mid-19th century.
She was the second daughter of Edward Bootle- Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale.
She married Edward Smith- Stanley in May 1825.
They had three children:
Edmund Hornby (politician)
Edmund Hornby( 1773- 1857) of Dalton Hall near Burton, Westmorland, was a Member of Parliament for, Lancashire, from 1812- 1826.
He was a nephew and son-in- law of Edward Smith- Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby( 1775- 1851).
James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange
James Smith- Stanley, Lord Strange( 1716–1771) was commonly known by that title, though neither he nor his father had any claim to it.
He was the eldest son of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby, whose predecessor's heirs had used that courtesy title, but the right to two successive baronies Lord Strange( being baronies by writ) had descended to daughters, when the earldom had passed to the heir male.
James Stanley married Lucy daughter and coheir of Hugh Smith of Weald Hall, Essex, and took the additional surname Smith on his marriage.
This marriage produced Edward Smith- Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and several other children, including Thomas Stanley( 1753 – 1779).
He died before his father, so that the earldom passed straight to his son.
He attended Westminster School where he became a close friend of the future soldier, playwright, and politician John Burgoyne, who was to surrender his army at Saratoga in 1777.
As a young man, Burgoyne eloped with Lord Strange's sister.
Burgoyne also wrote a masque to celebrate the wedding of Edward Smith- Stanley to Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, a daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton.
Edward Penrhyn
Edward Penrhyn( 16 September 1794 – 6 March 1861), previously Edward Leycester, was an English barrister and briefly a member of parliament.
The son of the Rev. Oswald Leycester( later Oswald Penrhyn), of Stoke, Shropshire, by his marriage to Mary, a daughter of Mr P. Johnson, of Timperley, Cheshire, Edward Leycester was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted in February 1813 and matriculated in October.
He soon gained a Scholarship, was President of the Cambridge Union Society in the Easter term of 1816, graduated BA in 1817, and was promoted to MA in 1820.
In 1818 he was admitted to the Middle Temple.
He assumed the name of Penrhyn in lieu of Leycester, in accordance with the will of Baroness Penrhyn in 1817, and on 16 December 1823 married Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Stanley( 1801 – 1853), a daughter of Edward Smith- Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby and a sister of Edward Smith- Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who in 1852 became prime minister.
In 1823 he was" of East Sheen.
Their son Edward Hugh Leycester Penrhyn was born in 1827 and another son, Oswald Henry Leycester Penrhyn, in 1828.
Both became first- class cricketers, the elder became an army officer and was the first chairman of Surrey County Council, while the younger entered the church and became Rector of Winwick, Cheshire.
Penrhyn was one of the Members of Parliament for Shaftesbury from 1830 to 1832, sitting as a Whig.
He also became chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Surrey.
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869) was a British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and, to date, the longest-serving leader of the Conservative Party.
He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley.
He is one of only four British prime ministers to have three or more separate periods in office.
However, his ministries each lasted less than two years and totalled three years and 280 days.
Historian Frances Walsh has written that it was Derby:
Scholars rank him highly among all British prime ministers.
Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Kildare
Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Kildare( died 11 February 1612) was an Irish peer.
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby PC (1 September 1752 (O.S.) – 21 October 1834), usually styled Lord Stanley from 1771 to 1776, was a British peer and politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
He held office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1783 in the Fox–North coalition and between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.

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