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.
STANLEY, EDWARD, son of Capt. John Stanley, Royal Navy, and Jane, dau. of Abel Walter, Busbridge, Surrey; b. 25 May 1718; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1728/9; left 1733; Clerk of Northern Ports, Customs (occurs 1760); Secretary to Commissioners of Customs (occurs 1769-80); DCL Oxford 4 Jul 1780; FRS 7 Mar 1765; m. 27 Feb 1741 Catharine, dau. and heiress of Joseph Fleming; d. 6 Jan 1789.
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn; Dean of Westminster. Second son of Right Hon.Edward Stanley DD, Bishop of Norwich, and Catherine, dau. of Rev.Oswald Leycester, Rector of Stoke-upon-Terne, Shropshire ; b. 13 Dec 1815 ; educ. Rugby School ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 Nov 1833 ; Ireland Scholar and Newdigate Prize for English Verse 1837 ; 1st cl.Lit.Hum. 1837 ; BA 1837 ; Fellow, University Coll.Oxford Jul 1838, Tutor 1843 ; Chancellor’s Latin Essay Prize 1839, Chancellor’s English Essay Prize 1840, Ellerton Theological Essay Prize 1840 ; ordained deacon Dec 1839, priest 1843 ; Secretary to Oxford University Commission 1851-2 ; Canon of Canterbury Jul 1851 – Dec 1856 ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History Dec 1856 – Jan 1864 ; Dean of Westminster from 9 Jan 1864 ; author, Life of Thomas Arnold DD, Head Master of Rugby, 1844, Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history, 1856, Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church, 1861, Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, 3 vols, 1863-70, Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, 1870, and many other publications ; m. 22 Dec 1863 Lady Augusta Frederica Elizabeth Bruce, dau. of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Gen. in the Army ; d. 18 Jul 1881. Buried Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
While Dean of Westminster he continued the Greek Testament Prize originated by Dean Trench (below), and in 1868, at his own expense, he restored School to its former proportions by removing the wall at the northern end where the Shell form was situated, at the same time making good the roof which had been damaged by fire in 1694.
STANIFORTH, CHARLES, son of John Staniforth MP, Hull, Yorks., merchant and shipowner, and Maria Pitts, Bridlington Quay, Yorks.; bapt. St. Botolph Bishopsgate, London 14 Sep 1795 (IGI); adm. Christmas 1810; left 1811; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 May 1815, matr. 1815; signed Play Protest 1847; d. 31 Jan 1880, aged 84.
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, THOMAS HENRY SPENCER, brother of John Spencer Stanhope (qv); b. 14 May 1794; adm.; at school 1805; left 1808; d. 3 Apr 1808.
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, PHILIP, younger son of Philip Stanhope (qv); b. 21 Jan 1763; adm. 4 Oct 1773; in school list Jul 1779; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1779, aged 16; BA 1783; adm. Middle Temple 6 Feb 1779, called to bar 12 Jun 1789; migr. to Inner Temple 23 Nov 1789; m. 28 May 1790 Elizabeth Daniel, Bristol; d. 18 Oct 1801. [Perhaps Ensign, 12th Foot 11 Jun 1781, as “Philip Dormer Stanhope”].