John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley

Stanley was born at Alderley Park, Cheshire, the son of Sir John Thomas Stanley FRSE (1735–1827), 6th Baronet. and Margaret Owen, heiress of the Penrhos estate on Anglesey.{{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}}

This branch of the Stanley family descended from the Hon. Sir John Stanley, third son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley (whose eldest son Thomas was created Earl of Derby in 1485).

He was the elder brother of Edward Stanley, the Bishop of Norwich. His sister, Margaretta Louisa Anne, married Gen. Sir Baldwin Leighton, 6th Baronet.

He was educated at Edinburgh University.

Stanley succeeded in the baronetcy and to the family seat at Alderley Park in Cheshire on his father's death in 1807. He was appointed High Sheriff of Anglesey for 1809.

He was elected to the House of Commons for Wootton Bassett in 1790, a seat he held until 1796. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1790.{{cite web| url = http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo=='EC%2F1790%2F02'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl|title =Record of nomination for John Thomas Stanley, Baron Stanley of Alderley|publisher=Royal Society|accessdate=2013-03-12}} In 1839 Stanley was raised to the peerage as Baron Stanley of Alderley, in the County of Chester.

Stanley married the Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield, in 1796. There were 11 children of the marriage; twin sons and seven daughters survived to adulthood.{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |title=The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing|date=1843 |publisher=Saunders and Otley |page=498 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LaIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA498 |access-date=29 October 2024 |language=en}}{{cite ODNB|id=74489|first=Marvin|last=Stern|title=Stanley, Lady Maria Josepha}}Cheshire, England, Parish Registers, 1538–1909; Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812

• Hon. Maria Margaret (20 July 1797 – 24 February 1882), died unmarried
• Hon. Louisa Dorothea (7 November 1799 – 3 June 1877), died unmarried
• Hon. Isabella Louisa (27 May 1801 – 13 May 1839) married in 1826 Sir William Edward Parry, and was mother of Edward Parry.{{cite ODNB|id=21443|first=A. K.|last=Parry|title=Parry, Sir (William) Edward}} Died two days following the birth of twin sons, who died.{{cite web |title=Isabella Parry Memorial Tablet |url=https://trinitycemeterytunbridgewells.org.uk/memorial-tablets-in-holy-trinity-church/isabella-louisa-parry-memorial-tablet |publisher=Trinity Cemetery - Tunbridge Wells |access-date=29 October 2024}}
• Hon. Lucy Anne (30 June 1798 – 15 March 1869), married in 1833 Marcus Theodore Hare.{{cite book|author=Edward Walford|title=The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9EkzFlBgz0C&pg=PA461|year=1869|publisher=R. Hardwicke|page=461}}
• Hon. Edward John (1802–1869), elder twin who inherited the title
• Hon. William Owen (1802–1884), younger twin and politician
• Hon. Harriot Alethea (23 October 1804 – 24 April 1888), married in 1835 Gen. William Henry Scott
• Hon. Matilda Abigail (9 June 1806 – 28 July 1850), married Henry John Adeane.{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/adeane-henry-1789-1847|title=Adeane, Henry John (1789–1847), of Babraham, Cambs, History of Parliament Online|accessdate=29 December 2015}}
• Alfred (15 February 1808 – 24 March 1811), died young
• Hon. Emmeline (28 September 1810 – 31 August 1906), married in 1844 Albert Way
• Elfrida Susannah (15 December 1813 – 17 September 1817), died young

Lord Stanley of Alderley died at Alderley Park in October 1850, aged 83, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Edward, who had already been elevated to the peerage in his own right as Baron Eddisbury.

Lady Stanley of Alderley died in 1863.

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