Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth CB TD DL JP (born Greenwood; 28 June 1861 – 28 January 1939) was a Yorkshire land owner, magistrate and

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officer who commanded the

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during

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. He was appointed

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(CB) in the 1924 Birthday Honours for services to agriculture.

Personal life

He was born to

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and Louisa Elizabeth Barnardiston. His father built Swarcliffe Hall where the family resided, and his grandfather

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was a noted

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. Stanyforth was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford. He studied agriculture, later becoming a President of the

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. He was a noted breeder of shorthorn cattle, west highland bullocks and Jersey cattle. He was a member of the West Riding Territorial Association and served in the

. He obtained command of the Hussars in 1913 and was for a time in charge of the coastal defences at Scarborough. His grandmother Sarah Staniforth was the daughter of Samuel Staniforth, former

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, and the sister of Rev. Thomas Staniforth of

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. When Thomas died, Edwin assumed the name and arms of the family. This was carried out on 7 December 1887 by Royal Licence. Stanyforth married his cousin Mary Evelyn Barnadiston in 1888Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 8 (1901) and had three children: two daughters, Madge and Monica, who was raised in

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, and a son, Ronald Thomas Stanyforth, who would go on to become captain of the

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. The family resided at Kirk Hammerton Hall.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanyforth, Edwin 1861 births 1939 deaths Yorkshire Hussars officers British Army personnel of World War I Companions of the Order of the Bath Deputy Lieutenants in England People from Nidderdale People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford