Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby

British peer and landowner

The Right Honourable

The Earl of Derby

Arms of the Earls of Derby

Born| Edward Richard William Stanley
(1962-10-10) 10 October 1962 (age 62)
Spouse(s)|

Caroline Neville

(m. 1995)​

Issue| 3
Parents|

* The Hon. Hugh Stanley
* Rose Birch

Occupation| Peer, landowner

Edward Richard William Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby, DL (born 10 October 1962) is a British hereditary peer and landowner.

He was a member of the House of Lords from 1994 to 1999.[1]

## Early life

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Edward Stanley (known to friends as "Teddy")[2] was born in 1962, the son of Hugh Stanley (1926–1971) and his wife Rose Birch.[3] He is a great-great-grandson of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, who served as Governor General of Canada and gave the country the Stanley Cup.[3]

He was educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, then in 1982 was commissioned as a junior officer into the Grenadier Guards. After leaving the army, he attended the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, to study farming and estate management.[3]

## Career

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Stanley was a merchant banker with Robert Fleming & Company between 1987 and 2001.[3]

In 1994, he inherited the earldom of Derby and other peerages on the death of his uncle Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby.[3][4] He also inherited the Knowsley Hall estate, with its Knowsley Safari Park and the Stanley House Stud at Hatchfield Farm.[5] He also has a family home in Westminster.[2]

Derby is president of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce,[6] serves as a member of the University of Liverpool Council[7] (receiving an honorary doctorate (Hon. LLD) from the Liverpool University in 2008)[8] and is one of seven trustees of the foundation which funds bursaries to Cameron House pre-prep and prep school in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.[9][10] Lord Stanley was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Merseyside in 1999, serving alongside Frank Field and Mark Blundell among others.[11] He is also the President of the Liverpool College Foundation,[12] a foundation linked to the school of which his predecessor the 14th Earl of Derby was a founder.

For the coronation of Charles III, Derby was made the Vice Admiral of Lancashire. The position had been held by previous Earls of Derby going back to 1569. Prior to this appointment, Derby was an honorary Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve.[13]

## Knowsley

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Derby's Knowsley estate has residential properties in the rural parishes of Knowsley, Eccleston, Rainford, Bickerstaffe, and Ormskirk. It also rents out commercial properties at the Stanley Grange Business Village, converted from a range of Victorian farm buildings on the estate and opened in June 2013.[14]

The Grade II* listed Knowsley Hall, with its 2,500 acres of parkland,[15] has been used as the filming location for several television programmes and films, including Boys from the Blackstuff – 'Yosser's Story' (1982), Apparitions (2008), The Liver Birds (2007) as well as television soap operas, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street. In 2008, the house received a five-star gold rating for accommodation from inspectors at VisitEngland, the only stately home to be so rated.[16] In 2010, Lord Derby announced his 'Green' policies for the estate, which included conservation and generation of efficient energy usage.[17]

In 2024, Derby argued against the imposition of inheritance tax on farmland, as proposed in the 2024 budget of a new Labour government. Having received such land free of inheritance tax, he would in future be subject to the taxation. He felt this was unjust and put the survival of regular family farms at risk.[18]

## Thoroughbred horse racing

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The Epsom Derby was named after the 12th Earl of Derby, while The Oaks was named after the 12th Earl's house near Epsom. The Derby family can trace its horse-racing heritage back to the 5th Earl of Derby in the sixteenth century.[19]

Derby's maternal grandmother, Catherine, was a well-known racehorse trainer in Wiltshire notably College House, Lambourn, from where she sent out The Schweppes Gold Trophy winner Ra Nova, among others.

Derby usually has one or two horses in training each year from Hatchfield stud farm, which is managed by his younger brother, Peter Stanley, and houses a small number of brood mares. Derby's policy is to sell his colts and race the fillies. He currently owns Ouija Board, winner of seven Grade 1 races, including The Oaks, the Irish Oaks and the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf in 2004, and the last-named race again in 2006. Ouija Board also won the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot in June 2006. She was third in the Japan Cup following that last win, and was retired after going lame before her intended final start in the Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin in December 2006. Ouija Board won over three million pounds in prize money, and Derby has published a book about her, Ouija Board: A Mare in a Million.[20]

Derby's proposal to build 1,200 houses and a large industrial estate on historic stud land at Hatchfield in Newmarket, Suffolk, was met with opposition from local residents,[21] businesses and the area's largest employers, including Tattersalls, the Jockey Club, Newmarket Racecourse, some of Newmarket's elected councillors, leading trainers, and the local residents' group Save Historic Newmarket.[22]

## Personal life

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Lord Derby married The Honourable Caroline Neville, a daughter of Robin Neville, 10th Baron Braybrooke, on 21 October 1995 at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Saffron Walden. The couple have three children:[3]

* Lady Henrietta Mary Rose Stanley (b. 1997)
* Edward John Robin Stanley, Lord Stanley, heir apparent to the earldom (b. 1998)
* Oliver Henry Hugh Stanley (b. 2002)

The elder son, Lord Stanley, is a godson of Prince Andrew, Duke of York,[citation needed] and was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II between 2008 and 2012,[23] appearing in three Garter services and four State Openings of Parliament. He held the Garter around the leg of Prince William during his installation as 1000th Knight of the Garter.[24]

## See also

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* Baron Stanley of Alderley
* Stanley baronets

## References

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1. ^ Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Derby, accessed 23 November 2022
2. ^ a b National Thoroughbred Racing Association, 3 December 2007 Archived 19 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ a b c d e f Burke's Peerage, volume 1 (2003), p. 1100
4. ^ "The Earl of Derby DL". Merseyside Lieutenancy. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
5. ^ "Life of a thoroughly modern earl". Liverpool Daily Post. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
6. ^ "The Rt Hon the Earl of Derby DL". Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
7. ^ "The University Council". University of Liverpool. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
8. ^ "Honorary degrees for Earl of Derby and Sir Drummond Bone". Liverpool Daily Post. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
9. ^ "CAMERON HOUSE FOUNDATION". Open Charities. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
10. ^ "Cameron House Foundation – Key Employees". Charity Insight. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
11. ^ Merseyside Lieutenancy
12. ^ "THE LIVERPOOL COLLEGE FOUNDATION filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
13. ^ Hardman, Robert (20 June 2024). Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. Pan Macmillan UK. ISBN 9781035027484.
14. ^ "Lord's Derby's business park dream is a reality after a 12-year wait". Liverpool Daily Post. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
15. ^ "Knowsley Estate". Rural Estates. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
16. ^ "Knowsley estate wins two national awards". Liverpool Daily Post. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
17. ^ "Lord Derby tells how Knowsley Hall and its estate is going green". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
18. ^ Josh Spero, UK landed estates warn Budget tax changes will ‘kill off’ business, Financial Times, 9 November 2024 (subscription required), archived at archive.ph
19. ^ Eric Pickles rejects plans for 1,200 Newmarket homes, BBC, 23 March 2012, retrieved 11 March 2014
20. ^ Ouija Board: A Mare in a Million: Amazon.co.uk: Lord Derby: 9781905156405: Books. ASIN 1905156405.
21. ^ "Hatchfield Farm plans 'called in' by secretary of state | Horse Racing News | Racing Post". Racing Post. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
22. ^ Racing Post: Save Historic Newmarket staging Tattersalls rally
23. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. London. 15 May 2008.[dead link]
24. ^ Feschuk, Dave (3 March 2011). "Feschuk: Lord Stanley has never seen a hockey game". The Star. Toronto. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

## External links

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* Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Derby
* www.hereditarypeers.com
* www.tatler.com

Peerage of England

Preceded by

Edward Stanley

|  Earl of Derby
1994–present  | Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Edward Stanley
Honorary titles
Preceded by

Vacant

|  Vice Admiral of Lancashire
2023–present  | Incumbent

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Current earls in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

Sorted by (historical) entity at time of grant

England

* Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury
* Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby
* William Hastings-Bass, 17th Earl of Huntingdon
* William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke
* Charles Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon
* Robert Fiennes-Clinton, 19th Earl of Lincoln
* Alexander Howard, 22nd Earl of Suffolk
* William Herbert, 15th Earl of Montgomery
* Alexander Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh
* Anthony Fane, 16th Earl of Westmorland
* Alexander Howard, 15th Earl of Berkshire
* Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey
* Daniel Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea
* Luke Montagu, 12th Earl of Sandwich
* Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex
* George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle
* Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury
* Daniel Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Nottingham
* Richard Bertie, 9th Earl of Abingdon
* Timothy Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland
* Richard Lumley, 13th Earl of Scarbrough
* Rufus Keppel, 10th Earl of Albemarle
* George Coventry, 13th Earl of Coventry
* William Child Villiers, 10th Earl of Jersey

Scotland

* Alistair Sutherland, 25th Earl of Sutherland
* Anthony Lindsay, 30th Earl of Crawford
* Margaret of Mar, 31st Countess of Mar
* Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll
* Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness
* Stewart Douglas, 22nd Earl of Morton
* James Leslie, 22nd Earl of Rothes
* Henry Erskine, 18th Earl of Buchan
* Hugh Montgomerie, 19th Earl of Eglinton
* John Stuart, 21st Earl of Moray
* James Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar
* Michael Douglas-Home, 16th Earl of Home
* James David Drummond, 10th Earl of Perth
* Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
* James Erskine, 16th Earl of Kellie
* George Baillie-Hamilton, 14th Earl of Haddington
* Andrew Stewart, 14th Earl of Galloway
* Ian Maitland, 18th Earl of Lauderdale
* James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay
* Simon Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun
* Charles Hay, 16th Earl of Kinnoull
* Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin
* James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss
* James Ramsay, 17th Earl of Dalhousie
* David Ogilvy, 14th Earl of Airlie
* Alexander Leslie-Melville, 15th Earl of Leven
* John Grant, 13th Earl of Dysart
* John Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Selkirk
* Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk
* Andrew Bruce, 15th Earl of Kincardine
* Anthony Lindsay, 13th Earl of Balcarres
* Filippo Rospigliosi, 12th Earl of Newburgh
* Alexander Scrymgeour, 12th Earl of Dundee
* Patrick Hope-Johnstone, 11th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
* Iain Cochrane, 15th Earl of Dundonald
* James Keith, 14th Earl of Kintore
* Malcolm Murray, 12th Earl of Dunmore
* Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Melville
* Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney
* James Charteris, 9th Earl of March
* Ian Ogilvie-Grant, 13th Earl of Seafield
* John Dalrymple, 14th Earl of Stair
* Harry Primrose, 8th Earl of Rosebery
* Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow

Great
Britain

* Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers
* William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth
* Peter Bennett, 10th Earl of Tankerville
* Charles Finch-Knightley, 12th Earl of Aylesford
* Richard Parker, 9th Earl of Macclesfield
* James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave
* Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington
* Quentin Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth
* Guy Greville, 9th Earl Brooke
* George Hobart-Hampden, 10th Earl of Buckinghamshire
* Piers North, 10th Earl of Guilford
* Joseph Yorke, 10th Earl of Hardwicke
* Robin Fox-Strangways, 10th Earl of Ilchester
* Guy Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick
* William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr
* William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor
* Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
* Allen Bathurst, 9th Earl Bathurst
* George Villiers, 8th Earl of Clarendon
* Alexander Murray, 8th and 9th Earl of Mansfield
* Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 7th Earl Talbot
* Christopher Edgcumbe, 9th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
* Charles Fortescue, 8th Earl Fortescue
* Alexander Murray, 9th Earl of Mansfield
* George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
* Edward Cadogan, 9th Earl Cadogan
* James Harris, 7th Earl of Malmesbury

Ireland

| Kingdom of Ireland|

* Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Waterford
* John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork
* William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl of Westmeath
* John Brabazon, 15th Earl of Meath
* Alexander Feilding, 11th Earl of Desmond
* Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan
* John Boyle, 15th Earl of Orrery
* Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
* Peter Forbes, 10th Earl of Granard
* Ivo Bligh, 12th Earl of Darnley
* Myles Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough
* Thomas Butler, 11th Earl of Carrick
* Henry Boyle, 10th Earl of Shannon
* Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran
* Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown
* John Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough
* David Turnour, 8th Earl Winterton
* Robert King-Tenison, 12th Earl of Kingston
* Robert Jocelyn, 10th Earl of Roden
* David Vaughan, 9th Earl of Lisburne
* Patrick Meade, 8th Earl of Clanwilliam
* Randal McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim
* Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford
* George Dawson-Damer, 7th Earl of Portarlington
* Charles Bourke, 11th Earl of Mayo
* Michael Annesley, 12th Earl Annesley
* Andrew Cole, 7th Earl of Enniskillen
* John Crichton, 7th Earl Erne
* George Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan
* John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore
* Andrew Stuart, 9th Earl Castle Stewart
* Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon
* John Hely-Hutchinson, 9th Earl of Donoughmore

|

After 1801|

* Edmund Pery, 7th Earl of Limerick
* Nicholas Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty
* Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse
* Charles Acheson, 7th Earl of Gosford
* Shaun Agar, 6th Earl of Normanton
* Richard Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey
* Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel
* Richard Graham-Toler, 7th Earl of Norbury
* Edward Knox, 8th Earl of Ranfurly

United
Kingdom

| King George III|

* Peter St Clair-Erskine, 7th Earl of Rosslyn
* Benjamin Craven, 9th Earl of Craven
* Rupert Onslow, 8th Earl of Onslow
* Julian Marsham, 8th Earl of Romney
* John Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester
* Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton
* John Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis
* Simon Nelson, 10th Earl Nelson
* Alexander Grey, 8th Earl Grey
* William Lowther, 9th Earl of Lonsdale
* Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby

|

Prince Regent|

* David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood
* Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 7th Earl of Minto
* Charles Cathcart, 7th Earl Cathcart
* John Grimston, 7th Earl of Verulam
* Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans
* Mark Parker, 7th Earl of Morley
* Richard Bridgeman, 7th Earl of Bradford

King George IV|

* John Scott, 6th Earl of Eldon
* Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe
* Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke
* James Temple-Gore-Langton, 9th Earl Temple of Stowe
* Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor

King William IV|

* Thomas Anson, 6th Earl of Lichfield
* Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham
* Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville
* Edward Howard, 8th Earl of Effingham
* David Moreton, 7th Earl of Ducie
* Charles Pelham, 8th Earl of Yarborough

Queen Victoria|

* Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester
* Anthony Noel, 6th Earl of Gainsborough
* William Byng, 9th Earl of Strafford
* Mark Pepys, 9th Earl of Cottenham
* Graham Wellesley, 8th Earl Cowley
* David Ward, 5th Earl of Dudley
* Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Winton
* John Russell, 7th Earl Russell
* John Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Cromartie
* John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley
* Richard Wortley, 5th Earl of Wharncliffe
* Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns
* John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton
* William Palmer, 5th Earl of Selborne
* John Northcote, 5th Earl of Iddesleigh
* Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook

King Edward VII|

* Evelyn Baring, 4th Earl of Cromer
* Ivor Windsor-Clive, 4th Earl of Plymouth
* Edward Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool

King George V|

* Harry Primrose, 4th Earl of Midlothian
* Michael Hicks Beach, 3rd Earl St Aldwyn
* David Beatty, 3rd Earl Beatty
* Alexander Haig, 3rd Earl Haig
* Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh
* Roderick Balfour, 5th Earl of Balfour
* Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith
* Patrick Jellicoe, 3rd Earl Jellicoe
* Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape
* William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

King George VI|

* Simon Bowes-Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
* Benedict Baldwin, 5th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
* Peter Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax
* Brer Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie
* David Lloyd George, 4th Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
* Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Queen Elizabeth II|

* Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis
* Mark Cunliffe-Lister, 4th Earl of Swinton
* John Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee
* Simon Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton
* David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
* Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton

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