Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (13 November 180216 June 1869), known as The Lord Eddisbury between 1848 and 1850, was a British politician.

Background

Stanley was the son of

John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley (26 November 1766 – 23 October 1850), known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was a British peer and politician. Life Stanley was the son of Sir John Thomas Stanley FRSE (17 ...

, and Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. He was educated at

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and

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Political career

Stanley entered the

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as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Hindon in 1831 and was later member for North Cheshire between 1832 and 1841, and between 1847 and 1848. He served under

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as Patronage Secretary to the Treasury from 1835 to 1841, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1841 and as

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in 1841 and under

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between 1846 and 1852. He was sworn of the

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in 1841 and in 1848, two years before he succeeded to the barony of Stanley, he was created Baron Eddisbury, of Winnington in the County Palatine of Chester.''The London gazette'', 9 May 1848
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under Lord Palmerston from 1855 to 1858, and Postmaster-General under Palmerston and then Lord John Russell from 1860 to 1866. In 1861 he established the Post Office Savings Bank.

Family

Lord Stanley of Alderley married

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(21 December 180716 February 1895), a daughter of

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, in 1826. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley had ten children: * Henry Edward John, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1827–1903) * Alice Margaret (1828–1910), wife of

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* (Henrietta) Blanche (1830–1921), later Countess of Airlie, wife of David Ogilvy; a grandmother of Clementine Churchill, and a great-grandmother of the

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* Maude Alethea (1832–1915) * Cecilia (died 1839) * John Constantine (1837–78) * Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1839–1925) * Algernon Charles (1843–1928), Roman Catholic Bishop of Emmaus ('' in partibus'') * Katherine Louisa (1844–74), later Viscountess Amberley, wife of John Russell, Viscount Amberley; mother of the philosopher

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* Rosalind Frances (1845–1921), later Countess of Carlisle, became the chatelaine of

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and a radical temperance campaigner. Lord Stanley of Alderley died in June 1869, aged 66, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry. Lady Stanley of Alderley died in February 1895, aged 87. In the 1930s his family's letters were published by his descendant

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as: * ''The Ladies of Alderley: Letters 1841–1850'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1938) * ''The Stanleys of Alderley: Their letters 1851–1865'' (Chapman & Hall, 1939)

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