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Up for sale "14th Earl of Derby" Edward Smith-Stanley Clipped Signature Mounted. This offering includes a RARE!  2X4 Sepia Photo of the Earl. 

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Edward

George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, GCMG, PC, PC (Ire) (29 March

1799 – 23 October 1869, known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and

from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley) was a British of the United Kingdom and, to date, the

longest-serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was

scion of one of Britain's oldest, wealthiest and most powerful families. He is

one of only four British prime ministers to have three or more separate periods

in office. However, his ministries each lasted less than two years and totalled

three years and 280 days. Derby abolished slavery, educated Ireland, and

reformed Parliament.

Historian Frances Walsh has written that it was Derby: who educated the

party and acted as its strategist to pass the last great Whig measure, the 1867 Reform Act. It was his greatest achievement to create the

modern Conservative Party in the framework of the Whig constitution, though it

was Disraeli who laid claim to it.

Scholars long ignored his role but in the 21st century rank him highly

among all British prime ministers.

Stanley was born to Lord Stanley (later the 13th Earl of

Derby) and his wife, Charlotte Margaret (née Hornby),

the daughter of the Reverend Geoffrey Hornby. The Stanleys were a

long-established and very wealthy landowning family whose principal residence

was Knowsley Hall in Lancashire. He was perhaps the richest

prime minister ever. The family estates were based on 57,000 acres in

Lancashire, were worth at least £163,000 per annum in 1883.

Stanley was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.

Inspired by his grandfather, Stanley was devoted to traditional institutions

and the sacrosanctity of property rights. From his mother, Stanley adopted a

deep evangelical streak that typically influenced his decisions. In 1822 Edward

Stanley, as he was then, was elected to Parliament in the rotten Parliament constituency)) as a Whig, the traditional

party of his family. In 1824, however, he alienated some of his Whig

colleagues by voting against Joseph Hume's motion for an investigation into the established

Protestant Church of Ireland. He lost his seat in 1826. When the Whigs

returned to power in 1830, Stanley became Chief Secretary for

Ireland in Lord Grey's Government,

and entered the Cabinet in 1831. As Chief Secretary Stanley pursued a series of

coercive measures which frequently brought him into conflict with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord

Anglesey. In October 1831, Stanley wrote a letter,

the Stanley Letter, to the Duke of

Leinster establishing the system of National Education in

Ireland. This letter remains today the legal basis for the predominant form of

primary education in Ireland In

1833, Stanley moved up to the more important position of Secretary of

State for War and the Colonies, overseeing the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Bill.

Stanley, a religiously devout Anglican, broke with the ministry over the

reform of the Anglican Church of Ireland in 1834 and resigned from the

government. He then formed a group called the "Derby Dilly" and attempted to chart a middle course

between what they saw as the increasingly radical Whiggery of Lord John Russell

and the conservatism of the Tories. Tory leader Sir Robert Peel's turn to the

centre with the 1834 Tamworth Manifesto,

published three days before Stanley's "Knowsley Creed" speech, robbed

the Stanleyites of much of the uniqueness of their programme.

The term "Derby Dilly" was coined by Irish Nationalist

leader Daniel O'Connell. Besides

Stanley, the other principal members of the Dilly were Sir James Graham,

who had resigned as First Lord of the

Admiralty; Lord Ripon,

who had resigned as Lord Privy Seal; and

the Duke of

Richmond, who had resigned as Postmaster General.

These four ministers had come from notably different political

backgrounds—Stanley and Graham were old Whigs, Ripon was a former Canningite Tory prime minister, while Richmond was an

arch-conservative Tory who had incongruously found himself in the Grey cabinet.

Although they did not participate in Peel's short-lived 1835 ministry, over the

next several years they gradually merged into Peel's Conservative Party, with

several members of the "Derby Dilly" taking prominent positions in Peel's second ministry.

Joining the Conservatives, Stanley again served as Colonial Secretary in Peel's

second government in 1841. In 1844 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe in his

father's Barony of Stanley by

Writ of Acceleration. He broke with the Prime Minister again in 1845, this time

over the repeal of the Corn Laws, and managed to bring the

majority of the Conservative Party with him (including, among others, the

young Benjamin Disraeli). He

thereafter led the protectionist faction

of the Conservative Party. In the House of Lords, on 23 November 1847, he

accused the Irish Catholic clergy of using the confessional to encourage lawlessness

and crime.This was disputed in a series of letters by

the coadjutor Bishop of Derry, Edward Maginn. In 1851 he succeeded his father as Earl of

Derby. The party system was in a state of flux when the Conservatives left

office in 1846, the outstanding issues being the question of Ireland and the

unresolved franchise. The protectionists had a core of leaders, of whom

Disraeli was a leading light. But in opposition, the party was still

infighting, although Disraeli was determined to heal rifts. Blake argues that: His

frequent changes of allegiance —from Whig to Canningite, back to Whiggery, over

to Peel, and the final breach with Peel in 1845—do not appear to have been the

result of any deep political principles; they were, rather, swift decisions,

taken on the spur of the moment, over what he regarded as points of honour. 

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