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Derby, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley,
fourteenth earl of (/1. 1791), (I. 1869), English
statesman, was educated at Eton and Christ
Church, Oxford, and was elected member
for Stockbridge in 1820. In 1830 he was
appointed Chief Secretary to the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland under Earl Grey, in
1833 Secretary of State for the Colonies, but
the following year left the \Vhig party, and
for some years remained an independent
member. He again became Colonial Score-
tary in 18-11, and in 1814 was called up to the
Lords in his father’s burouy of Stanley. In
18-15 he resigned on account of Sir liohert
Peel’s determinatimi to repeal the Corn
Laws, and henceforward led the Tory party.
In 1852110 was Premier for a short period,
and again in 1858. He returned to office in
1866, and carried the Reform Bill of 1867,
and resigned the following year. He was
one of the greatest parliamentary debaters.

    
       
      
      
       
    
      
   
   
   
   
   
      

Derby, Edward Henry Smith Stanley.
earl of (/1. 1826). son of the above, educated
at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge,
entered Parliament in 1818 as member for
King’s Lynn. In 1853 he was Under-
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and in 18-55
Secretary for India, when he arranged the
transfer of the Indian Government from the
Company to the Crown. In 1866 he was
Foreign Secretary, and succeeded his father
in the Vearlclom in 1869. In 1874 he resigned
his post as Foreign Secretary, and seceded to
the Liberal party in 1880, being ap minted
Secretary to the Colonies in 1882. n 1886
he left Mr. Gladstone, differing from him on
the Home Rule question.

 
   
       
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     

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