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14 unusual facts about Edward Stanley


1915 FA Cup Final

The cup was awarded by the Earl of Derby whose speech, largely drowned out by a noisy crowd of young supporters, noted that all present needed to join together and play "a sterner game for England".

Derby Scheme

The Derby Scheme was a voluntary recruitment policy in Britain created in 1915 by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby.

Ed Dunlop

In 2003 alone the stable had 50 winners, and such prestigious owners as Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby, have placed horses to train with Dunlop.

Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby

The Knowsley Estate has residential properties in the rural parishes of Knowsley, Eccleston, Rainford, Bickerstaffe and Ormskirk.

Hayashi Tadasu

From 1866-1868, Hayashi studied in Great Britain at University College School and King's College London as one of fourteen young Japanese students (including Kikuchi Dairoku) sent by the Tokugawa government on the advice of the then British foreign minister Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby.

John Charteris

Haig was later forced to dismiss Charteris after Charteris angered Lord Derby, then Secretary of State for War.

Joseph E. Widener

In 1930, he imported the stallion Sickle from Lord Derby in England who came to visit the U.S. that year and was Widener's guest at the 1930 Kentucky Derby.

Kikuchi Dairoku

After attending the Bansho Shirabesho, the Shogunal institute for western studies, he was sent to Great Britain, in 1866, at age 11, the youngest of a group of Japanese sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to the University College School, on the advice of the then British foreign minister Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby.

Knowsley Hall Music Festival

It was created by the CEO of Cream and Creamfields, James Barton, and Lord Edward Stanley the Lord of the Manor for Knowsley Hall.

Barton approached Lord Derby to use the grounds of Knowsley Hall as it was an ideal venue for an atmospheric festival he said.

Municipal Borough of Stretford

The charter was formally presented by the Earl of Derby, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire at a Charter Day celebration held on 16 September.

Ndumbe Lobe Bell

In a letter to the Earl of Derby dated 30 September 1884, King Bell explained his reasons for accepting the German offer.

Ogden Mills Phipps

The son of major Thoroughbred owner/breeder Ogden Phipps, his grandmother Gladys Mills Phipps owned the renowned Wheatley Stable, and great-grandfather Ogden Mills, involved with Thoroughbreds beginning near the end of the 19th century, owned racing stables in the United States and was a partner with Lord Derby in a racing stable in France.

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby

Edward Stanley, born 1962, became 19th Earl of Derby in 1994.


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Priscilla Hastings

Her father was Sir Malcolm Bullock, 1st Baronet, subsequently a Conservative MP, and her mother was Lady Victoria Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby.

Robert Archibald Armstrong

Lord Derby advised her majesty to cheer the last days of the veteran scholar by a grant of £100 from the Royal Bounty Fund; and in 1869 Queen Victoria, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Gladstone, granted an annual pension of £50 to his widow.

Whitaker Wright

In 1890 Wright had purchased an estate named Lea Park between Godalming and Haslemere, Surrey, and the adjacent South Park Farm from the Earl of Derby, which included the Lordship of the Manor and control of Hindhead Common and the Devil's Punch Bowl.