Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby

The 13th Earl of Derby

Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby KG (21 April 1775 30 June 1851), styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832 and known as The Lord Stanley from 1832 to 1834, was an English politician, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist. The Derbyan parakeet, Psittacula derbiana, is named after him.

He was the 1st child and only son of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton.

On 10 November 1796, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire.[1] He was commissioned the colonel of the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Supplementary Militia on 1 March 1797;[2] this regiment subsequently became the 2nd Regiment Royal Lancashire Militia.[3] He was breveted as a colonel in the regular Army with seniority from that date, retaining the rank until his regiment was disembodied,[4] which occurred at the end of 1799.[3] He resigned his commission as colonel on 13 April 1847.

On 30 June 1798 he married Charlotte Margaret Hornby, daughter of Reverend Geoffrey Hornby, with whom he fathered future Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

After receiving his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[5] Lord Stanley was Member of Parliament for Preston and Lancashire from 1796 to 1832, when he was ennobled as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster. In 1834 he succeeded his father as 13th Earl of Derby and withdrew from politics, instead concentrating on his natural history collection at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. He had a large collection of living animals: at his death there were 1,272 birds and 345 mammals at Knowsley, shipped to England by explorers such as Joseph Burke.

Lord Derby was also the patron of the writer Edward Lear.

Many of Derby's collections are now housed in Liverpool museum. From 1828 to 1833 he was President of the Linnean Society.

References

  1. The London Gazette: no. 13978. p. 133. 7 February 1797.
  2. The London Gazette: no. 13989. p. 228. 4 March 1797.
  3. 1 2 Whalley, Joseph Lawson (1888). History of the old county regiment of the Royal Lancashire Militia. Simpkin, Marshall. pp. 145, 167.
  4. The London Gazette: no. 15066. p. 923. 29 September 1798.
  5. "Stanley, Lord Edward (Smith) (STNY792E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
William Cunliffe Shawe and
Sir Henry Philip Hoghton
Member of Parliament for Preston
17961800
With: Sir Henry Philip Hoghton
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Member of Parliament for Preston
18011812
With: Sir Henry Philip Hoghton 18011802
John Horrocks 18021804
Samuel Horrocks 18041812
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Edmund Hornby
Samuel Horrocks
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Thomas Stanley
John Blackburne
Member of Parliament for Lancashire
18121832
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John Wilson-Patten 18301831
Benjamin Heywood 18311832
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Vice-Admiral of Lancashire
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Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
18341851
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The Earl of Sefton
Peerage of England
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Edward Smith-Stanley
Earl of Derby
18341851
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Edward Smith-Stanley
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New title Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe
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