Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley

{{short description|English peer (1907-1971)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Stanley of Alderley

| office = Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal

| term_start = 22 August 1931

| term_end = 3 March 1971
Hereditary Peerage

| predecessor = The 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley

| successor = The 7th Baron Stanley of Alderley

| birth_date = 9 October 1907

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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1971|3|3|1907|10|9}}

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| education = Eton College

| alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford

| father = {{nowrap|Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1875–1931)}}

| mother = Margaret Evelyn Stanley (1875-1964)

| spouse = {{marriage|{{nowrap|Victoria Audrey Beatrice Chetwynd-Talbot}}|3 March 1932|1936|end=divorced}}

{{marriage|Edith Louisa Sylvia Ashley|18 January 1944|1948|end=divorced}}

{{marriage|Thérèse Husson|6 April 1951|1957|end=divorced}}

{{marriage|Kathleen Margaret Crane|15 September 1961|1971|end=died}}

| children = 1 daughter

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Edward John Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley, and 5th Baron Eddisbury (9 October 1907 – 3 March 1971), was a British peer.

He was the son of the Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1875–1931) and Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon (1875–1964).{{cite book|editor1-last=Mosly|editor1-first=Charles|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: in three volumes|date=19 December 2003|publisher=Burke's Peerage|isbn=9780971196629|volume = 3|page=3721|edition=107}} He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.

Lord Stanley oversaw the loss of the family's ancestral estate at Alderley Park. With a fondness for gambling, wine and marriage, he had to pay for four divorce settlements, and death duties, even at pre-war levels, for both the 4th and 5th Barons. When the mansion at Alderley Park was destroyed by fire in 1931 he moved into the former farmhouse. When he sold the estate in 1938 to the property developers Hambling Crundall and Co Ltd., many of his older tenants were forced to leave the village.{{cite web|title=Alderley Park/The Stanley Family|url=http://www.netheralderleyparish.com/the-local-area/alderley-park-the-stanley-family|website=Nether Alderley Parish Council|publisher=Nether Alderley Parish Council|accessdate=23 December 2015}}

He had four wives:

• Lady Victoria Audrey Beatrice Chetwynd-Talbot (married 3 March 1932 – divorced 1936). Died 1994.
• Edith Louisa Sylvia Ashley (married 18 January 1944 – divorced 1948). Died 1977.
• Thérèse Husson (married 6 April 1951 – divorced 1957)
• Kathleen Margaret Crane (née Wright) (married 15 September 1961 – his death 1971). Died 1996.

He and Victoria had one daughter, The Hon. Edwina Maureen Stanley (born 19 January 1933). On his death in 1971, his brother Lyulph Stanley succeeded to his titles, albeit only briefly.