Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby
Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby KG (September 1531 – 25 September 1593) was a prominent English nobleman, diplomat, and politician.
He was an ambassador, Privy Councillor, and participated in the trials of Mary, Queen of Scots and the Earl of Arundel.
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.
Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby
Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby( 1239 – 1279) was an English nobleman.
He was born at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England, the son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by his second wife Margaret de Quincy( born 1218), a daughter of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen of Galloway.
Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
Mervyn Tuchet (sometimes Mervin Touchet), 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593 – 14 May 1631), was an English nobleman who was convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently executed.
A son of George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven and 11th Baron Audley, by his wife, Lucy Mervyn, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Audley during his father's lifetime, so is sometimes referred to as Mervyn Audley.
He was knighted by James I in 1608, before he studied law at the Middle Temple.
He served as Member of the Parliament of England for Dorset in the Addled Parliament of 1614 and was a Justice of the Peace for the counties of Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire.
He succeeded his father on 20 February 1616/7 as Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Audley.
He left seven children upon his death.
Sometime before 1612 (records of the marriage are lacking), Lord Audley married Elizabeth Barnham, a sister-in-law of the philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon, and with her he had six children.
By all accounts the marriage was a loving and successful one, ending with her death in 1622.
His second marriage, on 22 July 1624, at Harefield, Middlesex, was to the former Lady Anne Stanley (1580–1647), elder daughter and co-heiress of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (by his wife, Alice Spencer), and widow of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos.
They had a daughter, Anne Touchet, who died young.
Lady Anne was significantly older than Castlehaven, and the marriage was not a success, but in 1628 Lord Castlehaven's son was married to her thirteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; a marriage of step-children.
Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby
Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby (19 January 1628 – 21 December 1672) was an English nobleman and politician.
He was the eldest son of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and Charlotte de La Trémouille.
Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby
Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (1559 – 16 April 1594), was an English nobleman and politician.
He was the son of Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, and Lady Margaret Clifford.
Ferdinando had a place in the line of succession to Elizabeth I according to the will of Henry VIII, after his mother, whom he predeceased.
His sudden death led to suspicions of poisoning amid fears of Catholic plots to overthrow Elizabeth.
Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby
Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby( 4 May 1559 – 23 January 1637) was an English noblewoman from the Spencer family and noted patron of the arts.
Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as" Amaryllis" in his eclogue" Colin Clouts Come Home Againe"( 1595) and dedicated his poem" The Teares of the Muses"( 1591) to her.
Her first husband was Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, a claimant to the English throne.
Alice's eldest daughter, Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven, was heiress presumptive to Queen Elizabeth I.
She married secondly in 1600 Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley and thus became a member of the Egerton family.
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon( 18 January 1609 – 13 February 1656), was the son of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, and Alice Spencer.
He married Lucy, daughter of Sir John Davies, on 7 August 1623.
He was MP for Leicestershire in 1625 and again in 1628 – 29.
Ferdinando's family seat, Ashby de la Zouch Castle, was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's troops in the English Civil War in 1646.
He died of smallpox at age 47 and was succeeded by his son, Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon.
There is a monument to him in St Helen's Church, Ashby- de- la- Zouch.
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS( 13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.
The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil( 1687 – 1708), daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter.
He was born at Westminster and attended Christ Church, Oxford.
He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger in 1751, and" Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift" in the same year, and the" Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth".
His" Letters from Italy" was published in 1774 by J. Duncombe.
Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby
Robert II de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby( c. 1100 – 1162) was a younger, but eldest surviving son of Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby and his wife Hawise.
He succeeded his father as Earl of Derby in 1139( William, his elder brother, having been murdered in London some time before).
He was head of a family which controlled a large part of Derbyshire including an area later known as Duffield Frith.

Question: When was Ferdinando Stanley, 5Th Earl Of Derby's father born?
Answer: 1531