Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley

Stanley was the eldest of twin sons born to John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, and Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. His twin brother, Hon. William Owen Stanley (1802–1884), was a Liberal Party politician.{{cite ODNB|id=74489|first=Marvin|last=Stern|title=Stanley, Lady Maria Josepha}} He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.Cook, C. and Keith, B., (1975). British Historical Facts 1830-1900. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd. p.88.

Stanley entered the House of Commons as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Hindon in 1831 and was later member for North Cheshire between 1832 and 1841, and between 1847 and 1848. He served under Lord Melbourne as Patronage Secretary to the Treasury from 1835 to 1841, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1841 and as Paymaster General in 1841 and under Lord John Russell as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1846 and 1852. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1841[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/20007/pages/2071 The London Gazette, 13 August 1841] and in 1848, two years before he succeeded to the barony of Stanley, he was created Baron Eddisbury, of Winnington{{EB1911 |inline=y |wstitle=Stanley (Family) |display=Stanley (Family) s.v. Edward John Stanley, 2nd baron |volume=25 |page=777}} in the County Palatine of Chester.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/20854/pages/1802 The London Gazette, 9 May 1848]

Stanley was President of the Board of Trade under Lord Palmerston from 1855 to 1858, and Postmaster-General under Palmerston and then Lord John Russell from 1860 to 1866. In 1861 he established the Post Office Savings Bank.

File:St Mary's Church, Olga, Cecilia and Mary Ethelfreda Stanley Memorial Stained Glass Window - geograph.org.uk - 3457293.jpg in memory of Lord and Lady Stanley's daughters Margaret Olga, Cecilia, and Mary Ethelfreda Stanley, who died young]]

Lord Stanley of Alderley married Henrietta Maria (21 December 1807{{snd}}16 February 1895), a daughter of Viscount Dillon, in 1826. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley had 12 children:{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= |pages=3720–3721 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}{{cite book |title=Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage (knightage & Companionage) of the British Empire |date=1856 |publisher=Hurst & Blackett |page=517 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu8NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA517 |access-date=29 October 2024 |language=en}}

• Henry Edward John, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1827–1903)
• Hon. Alice Margaret (20 August 1828 – 19 May 1910), married Augustus Pitt Rivers
• Hon. Henrietta Blanche (3 July 1830 – 5 January 1921), later Countess of Airlie, wife of David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie (1826-81); a grandmother of Clementine Churchill, and a great-grandmother of the Mitford sisters
• Cecilia (3 July 1831 – 22 September 1839), died from head injury after falling from a window in Gosport, Hampshire{{cite news |title=Inquest |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000230/18390930/005/0001 |access-date=29 October 2024 |work=Hampshire Chronicle |date=30 September 1839 |page=1}}
• Hon. Maude Alethea (1833–1915), activist for women and children
• Margaret Olga Stanley (1 March 1835 – 27 January 1836), died in infancy
• Lt. Col. Hon. John Constantine (30 September 1836 – 23 April 1878), Grenadier Guards
• Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1839–1925)
• Hon. Katherine Louisa (1842–1874), later Viscountess Amberley, wife of John Russell, Viscount Amberley; mother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell
• Rt. Rev. Hon. Algernon Charles (16 September 1843 – 23 April 1928), Roman Catholic Bishop of Emmaus (in partibus)
• Rosalind Frances (1845–1921), later Countess of Carlisle, became the chatelaine of Castle Howard and a radical temperance campaigner.
• Hon. Mary Ethelfreda Stanley (25 July 1849 – 15 September 1849), died in infancy

File:2nd Lord Stanley's Tomb, St Mary's Church - geograph.org.uk - 3457358.jpg

Three of their daughters died young. A stained glass window in their memories was erected in 1860 at St Mary's Church, Nether Alderley.{{cite web |title=Stanley Memorial Window |url=https://www.stmarysalderley.com/interior-tour/stanley-memorial-window/ |publisher=St Mary, Alderley |access-date=29 October 2024 |language=en}}

Lord Stanley of Alderley died in June 1869, aged 66, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry. Lady Stanley of Alderley died in February 1895, aged 87.

In the 1930s his family's letters were published by his descendant Nancy Mitford as:

• The Ladies of Alderley: Letters 1841–1850 (Hamish Hamilton, 1938)
• The Stanleys of Alderley: Their letters 1851–1865 (Chapman & Hall, 1939)

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