Irish politician
Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet (1663 – 30 November 1744) of Grangegorman , Co. Dublin was an Irish politician.
Biography
Stanley was born in Tickencor, County Waterford , the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Grangegorman , Dublin and his wife, Jane Borrowes and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Stanley was Secretary to various Lords Chamberlains of the Household (1689–1699), Commissioner of Stamp Duties (1698-1700), the Chief Secretary for Ireland 1713–1714, Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer and MP for Gorey 1713. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1688.[ 1] Warden of the Mint under Isaac Newton .
Stanley was made Baronet Stanley in 1699. The baronetage became extinct on his death on 30 November 1744.[ 2]
Marriage
Arms of Granville: Gules, three clarions or He married Ann Granville (d.1730), a daughter of Bernard Granville (1631-1701) of Birdcage Walk , Westminster, and Apps Court, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, a courtier, Gentleman of the Horse and Groom of the Bedchamber to King Charles II,[ 3] Member of Parliament for several Cornish constituencies, and younger brother of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath , who played an important role in effecting the Restoration of the Monarchy . They had no children. Mary Delany was the niece of Ann Granville and lived with them at Whitehall from the ages of 8 to 15.[ 4]
Notes
^ "Record" . Royal Society. Retrieved 11 August 2024 .^
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "S" (part 3 )
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.960, Granville of Wellesbourne^ Delany, Mary (1861). Lady Llanover (ed.). The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany Vol. 1 . London: Richard Bentley. pp. 3–8.
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