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1836 13th Earl of DERBY, politician, peer, landowner, naturalist. art collector:
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13th Earl of DERBY, politician, peer, landowner, naturalist. art collector, A Fine single page letter, which has been laid down to an Album page , remainder to which is glued to back, the letter dated Jan 18th, 1836 from Knowsley, and in which he writes about letters from Sir William Jardine and the one received on the 10th concluding part of his 1st series of \"Ornithological illustrations\".

(Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth FRS FRSE FLS FSA (23 February 1800 – 21 November 1874) was a Scottish naturalist. He is known for his editing of a long series of natural history books, The Naturalist\'s Library-Jardine was born on 23 February 1800 at 28 North Hanover Street[5] in Edinburgh, the son of Sir Alexander Jardine, 6th baronet of Applegarth and his wife, Jane Maule. He was educated in both York and Edinburgh then studied medicine at Edinburgh University.

From 1817 to 1821 he lodged with Rev Dr Andrew Grant at James Square, an arrangement made by his father. Grant was minister of St Andrew\'s Church on George Street.

In his early years, aged only 25, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Sir David Brewster.

He was a co-founder of the Berwickshire Naturalists\' Club, and contributed to the founding of the Ray Society.[8] He was \"keenly addicted to field-sports, and a master equally of the rod and the gun\". While ornithology was his main passion, he also studied ichthyology, botany and geology. His book on fossil burrows and traces, the Ichnology of Annandale, included fossils from his ancestral estate.[9][10] He was the first to coin the term ichnology, and this was the first book written on the subject.[11] His private natural history museum and library are said to have been the finest in Britain.

Jardine made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing the hugely popular forty volumes of The Naturalist\'s Library (1833–1843) issued and published by his brother in law, the Edinburgh printer and engraver, William Home Lizars.[13] The series was divided into four main sections: Ornithology (14 volumes), Mammalia (13 volumes), Entomology (7 volumes), and Ichthyology (6 volumes); each prepared by a leading naturalist. James Duncan wrote the insect volumes. The artists responsible for the illustrations included Edward Lear.[14] The work was published in Edinburgh by W. H. Lizars. The frontispiece is a portrait of Pierre André Latreille.

His other publications included an edition of Gilbert White\'s Natural History of Selborne which re-established White\'s reputation, Illustrations of Ornithology (1825–1843), and an affordable edition of Alexander Wilson\'s Birds of America.

Jardine described of a number of bird species, alone or in conjunction with his friend Prideaux John Selby. He died on 21 November 1874 in Sandown, Isle of Wight)

Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (21 April 1775 – 30 June 1851), KG, of Knowsley Hall in Lancashire (styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832, known as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe from 1832-4), was a politician, peer, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist. He was the patron of the writer Edward Lear.

Origins

He was the eldest child and only son and heir of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834) by his wife Elizabeth Hamilton, a daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton.

Career

He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] On 10 November 1796 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire[2] and in the same year he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Preston. He held this seat until 1812 and then represented Lancashire until 1832, when he was ennobled as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Military career

He was commissioned Colonel of the 1st Royal Lancashire Supplementary Militia on 1 March 1797;[3] this regiment subsequently became the 2nd Royal Lancashire Militia.[4] He was breveted as a colonel in the regular Army with seniority from that date, retaining the rank until his regiment was disembodied,[5] which occurred at the end of 1799.[4] He resigned his commission as colonel on 13 April 1847.

Naturalist

In 1834 he succeeded his father as 13th Earl of Derby and withdrew from politics, instead concentrating on his natural history collection at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. He had a large collection of living animals: at his death, there were 1,272 birds and 345 mammals at Knowsley, shipped to England by explorers such as Joseph Burke. From 1828 to 1833 he was President of the Linnean Society. Many of Derby\'s collections are now housed in Liverpool\'s World Museum. Several species were named after him, for example the Derbyan parakeet, Psittacula derbiana and an Australian species of parrot named firstly by Nicholas Vigors as Platycercus stanleyii, in 1830 when he was Lord Stanley, and referred to in the vernacular as \"The Earl of Derby’s Parrakeet\" by the author John Gould in the sixth volume of his magnum opus Birds of Australia. However the latter species was found to have been named previously as Platycercus icterotis, and thus Platycercus stanleyii was found to have been an invalid name due to the pre-existence of a published description for the species, according to \"the inviolable laws of precedence in deliberations on biological nomenclature\".[6] From the Earl of Derby\'s Collection, the State Library of NSW purchased six volumes of exquisite Australian natural history drawings dating from the early days of British settlement in NSW and this Library publishes talks and exhibitions of its research on this collection.

Marriage and issue

Arms of Hornby: Or, two chevronels between three bugle-horns sable stringed gules on a chief of the second as many eagle\'s legs erased of the first

On 30 June 1798 he married his first cousin Charlotte Margaret Hornby (d.1817), second daughter of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby (1750-1812), of Scale Hall, near Lancaster[9] in Lancashire, High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1774 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, Colonel of a regiment of Lancashire militia,[10] by his wife Lucy Smith-Stanley (d.1833) a daughter of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (1716–1771), (son and heir apparent of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (1689-1776)) and a sister of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834). Charlotte\'s brother was Edmund Hornby (1773-1857) of Dalton Hall, near Burton, Westmorland, a Member of Parliament for Preston, Lancashire, from 1812–1826,[11] who married his first cousin Lady Charlotte Stanley (d.1805), a daughter of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834). By Charlotte Hornby, he had issue:

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869), thrice Prime Minister (1852, 1858–9, 1866–8)

Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Smith-Stanley (1801–1853), married Edward Penrhyn Hon. Henry Thomas Smith-Stanley (1803–1875), MP for Preston (1832–7) Lady Emily Lucy Smith-Stanley (1804), died in infancy Lady Louisa Emily Stanley (1805–1825), married Lt.-Col. Samuel Long Lady Eleanor Mary Smith-Stanley (b. 1807) Colonel Hon. Charles James Fox Stanley (1808–1884) Death

He died on 30 June 1851

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B7c The Times Newspaper Original 4 Double Pages September 13th 1836

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1836 13th Earl of DERBY, politician, peer, landowner, naturalist. art collector

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