John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley

The Right Honourable
The Lord Stanley of Alderley
Lithograph by Isaac Ware Slater, after Joseph Slater Jr.
Member of Parliament
for Wootton Bassett
In office
1790–1796
Preceded byHon. George North
Succeeded byJohn Denison
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
1839 – 23 October 1850
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded bypeerage created
Succeeded byThe 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Personal details
Born26 November 1766
Alderley Park, Cheshire, England
Died23 October 1850(1850-10-23) (aged 83)
Alderley Park, Cheshire, England
Spouse
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(m. 1796; died 1850)​
Children11
Parent(s)Sir John Thomas Stanley
Margaret Owen

John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley FRS FSA (26 November 1766 – 23 October 1850), known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was an English peer and politician.

Early life and education

Stanley was born at Alderley Park, Cheshire, the son of Sir John Thomas Stanley FRSE (1735–1827), 6th Baronet. and Margaret Owen, heiress of the Penrhos estate on Anglesey.[1]

This branch of the Stanley family descended from the Hon. Sir John Stanley, third son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley (whose eldest son Thomas was created Earl of Derby in 1485).[1]

He was the elder brother of Edward Stanley, the Bishop of Norwich. His sister, Margaretta Louisa Anne, married Gen. Sir Baldwin Leighton, 6th Baronet.[1]

He was educated at Edinburgh University.[1]

Career

Stanley succeeded in the baronetcy and to the family seat at Alderley Park in Cheshire on his father's death in 1807. He was appointed High Sheriff of Anglesey for 1809.[1]

He was elected to the House of Commons for Wootton Bassett in 1790, a seat he held until 1796. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1790.[2] In 1839 Stanley was raised to the peerage as Baron Stanley of Alderley, in the County of Chester.

Marriage and issue

Stanley married the Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield, in 1796. There were 11 children of the marriage; twin sons and seven daughters survived to adulthood.[3][4][5]

  • Hon. Maria Margaret (20 July 1797 – 24 February 1882), died unmarried
  • Hon. Louisa Dorothea (7 November 1799 – 3 June 1877), died unmarried
  • Hon. Isabella Louisa (27 May 1801 – 13 May 1839) married in 1826 Sir William Edward Parry, and was mother of Edward Parry.[6] Died two days following the birth of twin sons, who died.[7]
  • Hon. Lucy Anne (30 June 1798 – 15 March 1869), married in 1833 Marcus Theodore Hare.[8]
  • Hon. Edward John (1802–1869), elder twin who inherited the title
  • Hon. William Owen (1802–1884), younger twin and politician
  • Hon. Harriot Alethea (23 October 1804 – 24 April 1888), married in 1835 Gen. William Henry Scott
  • Hon. Matilda Abigail (9 June 1806 – 28 July 1850), married Henry John Adeane.[9]
  • Alfred (15 February 1808 – 24 March 1811), died young
  • Hon. Emmeline (28 September 1810 – 31 August 1906), married in 1844 Albert Way
  • Elfrida Susannah (15 December 1813 – 17 September 1817), died young

Lord Stanley of Alderley died at Alderley Park in October 1850, aged 83, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Edward, who had already been elevated to the peerage in his own right as Baron Eddisbury.

Lady Stanley of Alderley died in 1863.

Arms

Coat of arms of John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley
Crest
On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an eagle with wings expanded or preying upon an infant proper, swaddled gules, handed argent.
Escutcheon
Argent, on a bend azure, three bucks' heads cabossed or, a crescent for difference.
Supporters
Dexter, a stag or, gorged with a ducal crown, line reflexed over the back, and charged on the shoulder with a mullet azure; sinister, a lion reguardant proper, gorged with a plain collar argent charged withthree escallops gules.
Motto
Sans Changer "Without Changing"[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 3720–3721. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ^ "Record of nomination for John Thomas Stanley, Baron Stanley of Alderley". Royal Society. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  3. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1843). The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Saunders and Otley. p. 498. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  4. ^ Stern, Marvin. "Stanley, Lady Maria Josepha". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74489. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Cheshire, England, Parish Registers, 1538–1909; Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812
  6. ^ Parry, A. K. "Parry, Sir (William) Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21443. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ "Isabella Parry Memorial Tablet". Trinity Cemetery - Tunbridge Wells. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  8. ^ Edward Walford (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. R. Hardwicke. p. 461.
  9. ^ "Adeane, Henry John (1789–1847), of Babraham, Cambs, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  10. ^ Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003. London: Macmillan. 2003. p. 1511.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett
1790–1796
With: The Viscount Downe 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New title Baron Stanley of Alderley
1839–1850 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Baronet
(of Alderley)
1807–1850 		Succeeded by