Stansbury, Peter McKnight, son of Harold Eugene Stansbury and Florence Lilian, d. of Henry Robertson of Muswell Hill; b. 3 Mar. 1942; adm. Apr. 1955 (W); left Dec. 1959; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1960; an art book publisher and bookseller; d. 15 Oct 2015.

STANNYNOUGH, PETER, son of Lawrence Stannynough, Wrightington, Lancs.; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1642; had a special order to pass in Nov and Dec 1642, and allowed to come up to Christ Church by Parliament Apr 1643 (Madan, Oxford Books, ii, 681), matr. 16 May 1643, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1646; ejected from Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission 8 Jul 1648; ordained; Curate, Liverpool, Lancs., 1651; Rector of Aughton, Lancs., from 6 Mar 1651 (but not instituted until 27 Oct 1662); “appointed King’s Preacher at the Restoration” [what does this mean ? Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II ?]; d. 28 Feb 1674.

Stannard, Robert William, son of Robert John Stannard, of Hampstead, London, by Fanny Rebecca, daughter of Edward Henry Lewis, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, b. Oct. 20, 1895; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (H); K.S. (non-resident) 1910; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1914, matric. Michaelmas 1914; B.A. 1920; 1st class Theol. Tripos 1921; Liddon student 1921; M.A. 1921; 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. April 12, 1915; Lieut. May 2, 1916; transferred to Middx. Regt. 1916; served in France, Belgium, and Germany; ordained deacon 1922, priest 1923 (Southwark); Curate of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, 1922-4, of Putney, 1924-7; Vicar of St. James, Barrow-in-Furness, 1927-34; Rector of Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, 19:34; Vicar of Melton-on-the-Hill, Yorks, 1941; Archdeacon of Doncaster 1941; Chaplain in Ordinary to the King 1944; consecrated Bishop Suffragan of Woolwich July 25, 1947; Dean of Rochester 1959; m. July 25, 1922, Muriel Sylvia, younger daughter of Arthur James Knight, of Arkley, Herts.; d. 26 Dec. 1986.

STANNARD, JOHN PETER, son of Rev. Francis Stannard, Rector of Stourmouth, Kent, and Thomasine --- (IGI); bapt. St. Bride’s, Fleet Street, London 10 Jul 1700 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1714/5; KS 1715; left 1719; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 may 1719, scholar 29 Apr 1720, matr. 1720; BA 1722/3; ordained deacon (London) 9 Jun 1723; Curate, St. Bride’s, Fleet Street; d. 21 Feb 1728.

Stanley, Sir Robert Christopher Stafford, son of Frederic Arthur Stanley, of Battersea, by Mary Stafford; b. May 12, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (H); left April 1917; R.M.A. Woolwich 1917; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. June 6, 1918; Lieut. Dec. 6, 1919; retired July 31, 1921; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine Aug. 1918-March 1919; Nigerian Adminis­ trative Service May 1925; Administrative Officer, Cyprus, 1935; Commissioner 1936; Chief Asst. Secretary 1938; Colonial Secretary, Barbados, 1943 and Gibraltar 1945; Chief Secretary, Northern Rhodesia, 1947; High Commissioner for the Western Pacific 1952; retired 1956; Speaker of the Mauritius Legislative Council 1956-9 O.B.E. Jan. 1, 1942; C.M.G. Jan. 1, 1944; K.B.E. Jan. 1, 1954; m. 1927, Ursula, daughter of Henry Watts Cracknell, of Hampstead; d. 31 May 1981.

Stanley, Richard Harrison, son of Ethelbert Thomas Stanley of Acton and Edith Irene, d. of Richard Beavis RA; b. 22 Feb. 1911; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left Dec. 1927; a co. director in Johan­nesburg; SAAF in WW2 (Capt.); d. 4 July 1974.

STANLEY, HON. EDWARD, brother of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (qv); b. Jun 1732; adm. Feb 1741/2 (Morel's); left 1744; d. 20 Apr 1745.

Stanhope-Jones, Basil Charles, brother of Colin Lundin Stanhope (q.v.); b. Feb. 18, 1878; adm. May 2, 1889 (G); left Dec. 1892, and subsequently went to Ushaw; 2nd Lieut. 9th Batt. N. Staffs Regt. July 22, 1915; served with his Regt. and on 37th Divisional Staff during Great War I; mentioned in despatches L.G. Dec. 28, 1918; writer and journalist; author of Barbed Wire (1918), and numerous plays; m.; d. June 18, 1943.

STANHOPE, PHILIP, natural son of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC, and Elizabeth du Bouchet, The Hague, Netherlands; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 (Morel's); left 1746; Grand Tour (Italy) 1746-51 (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France); MP Liskeard 1754-61, St. Germans 1761 – May 1765; British Resident, Hamburg 1757-63; Envoy to Imperial Diet 1763; Envoy Extraordinary at Dresden from 1764; the recipient of the Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his Son; at “Mr Morel’s boarding house in Cowley Street” in Aug 1743 (Letter XCIX); “the boy was encumbered with flesh, and nature had so carelessly compacted his limbs as scarcely to leave them the poer of flexure. In a word, in infancy he was shapeless, and in youth a looby. Never did a she-bear with more anxious assiduity labour to lick her cub into shape than this fond parent did to correct the errors of nature in the formation of this his darling” (Hawkins, Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1787, 181-2); “Mr. Stanhope’s character has been unjustly represented as diametrically opposite to what Lord Chesterfield wished him to be. He has been called dull, gross and awkward : but I knew him at Dresden, when he was Envoy to that Court; and though he could not boast of the graces, he was in truth a sensible, civil, well-behaved man” (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, 1887, i, 266 note); m. c. 1759 (secretly) Eugenia Peters, natural dau. of Compton Domvile MP (I); d. at Avignon, France 16 Nov 1768.

STANHOPE, LANGDALE, brother of George Stanhope (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1716; left 1719; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1719; BCL 1728; of Grimston, Yorks.; d. unm. before 1739. [presumably Langdale Stanhope, Grimston, Yorks., , will proved PCC 15 May 1731]