Edward Stanton (British Army officer)
{{Short description|British army officer and diplomat (1827–1907)}}
{{Other people|Edward Stanton|Edward Stanton (disambiguation){{!}}Edward Stanton}}
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|name = Sir Edward Stanton
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|ambassador_from = British
|country = Bavaria
|term_start = 1876
|term_end = 1882
|predecessor = Robert Morier
|successor = Hugh MacDonell
|birth_date = 19 February 1827
|birth_place = Painswick, Gloucestershire1901 England Census
|death_date = {{dda|24 June 1907|19 February 1827|df=y}}{{cite news |title= Obituary |work=The Times |date= 25 June 1907|page= 10}}
|death_place = Stroud, Gloucestershire
|nationality = British
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|alma_mater = Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
|occupation = Diplomat
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|branch = 23px British Army
|serviceyears = 1844–1907
|rank = General
|unit = Royal Engineers
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|battles = Crimean War
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General Sir Edward Stanton {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB|KCMG}} (19 February 1827 – 24 June 1907) was a British Army officer and diplomat.{{cite book |title=Annual Register |last=Burke |first=Edmund |author-link=Edmund Burke |author2=Dodsley, James |year=1908 |publisher=Printed for J. Dodsley |edition=6 |page=128}}{{cite book |title=Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry |last=Burke |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Burke |author2=Burke, John |author-link2=John Burke (genealogist) |year=1972 |publisher=Burke's Peerage |edition=18 |volume=2 |page=583 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SGdmAAAAMAAJ}}{{cite book |title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers |author=Royal Engineers |author-link=Royal Engineers |author2=Whitworth Porter |author2-link=Whitworth Porter |year=1915 |publisher=Longmans, Green |page=309 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGUFAAAAMAAJ&q=Stanton}}{{cite web | title=Stanton, Sir Edward (1827–1907) Knight General Diplomat | url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P27070 | work=National Register of Archives | publisher=The National Archives | access-date=10 June 2009}}
Early life
Edward Stanton was born in Painswick, Gloucestershire, the son of William Henry Stanton, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, and his wife, Jane. He was educated at Woolwich Academy.{{cite book |last=Dawson |first=Warren Royal |author-link=Warren Royal Dawson |title=Who Was Who in Egyptology |edition=2nd |year=1951 |publisher=Egypt Exploration Society |oclc=506864 |page=152}}
Career
Stanton was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 19 December 1844. He served in the Crimean War. From 1856 to 1857, he served on the boundary commission that determined the Russo-Turkish borders.{{cite web | last=Fenwick | first=SC | title=Boundary Commissions – 1832–1911 | work=Corps History – Part 12: Engineers in a Civic role (1820–1911) | url=http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part12.htm#boundary | publisher=Royal Engineers Museum | access-date=10 June 2009}}
He was appointed Consul-General in Warsaw, Poland on 7 December 1860,{{London Gazette |issue=22457 |date=7 December 1860 |page=4959 }} Agent and Consul-General in Egypt on 15 May 1865,{{London Gazette |issue=22974 |date=30 May 1865 |page=2806 }} and Chargé d'Affaires to the King of Bavaria on 10 May 1876.{{London Gazette |issue=24334 |date=9 June 1876 |page=3407 }} During his visit to Egypt, English author and poet Edward Lear described Sir Edward Stanton as "very good-natured".{{cite book |title=Later Letters of Edward Lear: to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford), Lady Waldegrave and Others |last=Lear |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Lear |author2=Strachey Strachie |author3=Constance Braham |year=1911 |publisher=Ayer Publishing |page=65 |url=https://archive.org/stream/laterlettersofed00learuoft/laterlettersofed00learuoft_djvu.txt|isbn=978-0-8369-6617-6 |chapter=Chapter I: England, Nice, Malta, Egypt, Cannes |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWMIQbvHELEC}} Sir Edward Stanton retired as a general in 1881.{{cite web |last=Law |first=Edward |title=Huddersfield Titled Classes |url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~lawedd/TITLESM-Z.htm |access-date=5 July 2009}}
Family
In 1862, Edward Stanton married Margarette Constance Starkey. He was a relative on her mother's side of the family. His son Colonel Edward Alexander Stanton (1867–1947) served in Egypt at Omdurman, was Governor of Khartoum from 1900 to 1908, and military governor of Haifa (the Phoenicia Division of Palestine) from 1918 to 1920.{{cite book |title=Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities |last=Home |first=Robert K. |year=1997 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-419-20230-1 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ovC4TylXNkC&pg=PA168}}
Honours
Stanton was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1857 and upgraded to a Knight Commander of the order (KCB) in 1905. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1882.
In addition to his British honours, Sir Edward Stanton was a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.
References
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{{s-ttl|title=British Consul-General at Warsaw
|years=1860 – 1865}}
{{s-aft|after=Charles Edward Mansfield2}}
{{s-bef|before=Robert Colquhoun3}}
{{s-ttl|title=British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt
|years=1865 – 1876}}
{{s-aft|after=Lord Vivian4}}
{{s-bef|before=Robert Morier5}}
{{s-ttl|title=British Chargé d'Affaires to the King of Bavaria
|years=1876 – 1882}}
{{s-aft|after=Hugh MacDonell6}}
{{s-ref | {{London Gazette |issue=22102 |date=26 February 1858 |page=970 }}
2.{{London Gazette |issue=22984 |date=27 June 1865 |page=3203 }}
3.{{London Gazette |issue=22219 |date=14 January 1859 |page=128 }}
4.{{London Gazette |issue=24342 |date=4 July 1876 |page=3820 }}
5.{{London Gazette|issue=23824|date=2 February 1872|page=357}}
6.{{London Gazette|issue=25080|date=3 March 1882|page=949}}}}
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Category:British Army generals
Category:British Army personnel of the Crimean War
Category:Consuls-general for Great Britain in Egypt
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath