Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

{{Short description|British statesman (1799–1869)}} {{redirect2|Lord Derby|The Earl of Derby|other holders of the title|Earl of Derby}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Earl of Derby | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KG|GCMG|PC|PCi}} | image = Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (cropped).jpg | caption = Lord Derby in 1865 | office = [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] | term_start = 28 June 1866 | term_end = 25 February 1868 | monarch = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]] | predecessor = [[The Earl Russell]] | successor = [[Benjamin Disraeli]] | term_start2 = 20 February 1858 | term_end2 = 11 June 1859 | monarch2 = Victoria | predecessor2 = [[The Viscount Palmerston]] | successor2 = The Viscount Palmerston | monarch3 = Victoria | term_start3 = 23 February 1852 | term_end3 = 17 December 1852 | predecessor3 = [[Lord John Russell]] | successor3 = [[The Earl of Aberdeen]] | office4 = [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] | term_start4 = 3 September 1841 | term_end4 = 23 December 1845 | prime_minister4 = [[Sir Robert Peel]] | predecessor4 = Lord John Russell | successor4 = [[William Ewart Gladstone]] | term_start5 = 3 April 1833 | term_end5 = 5 June 1834 | prime_minister5 = [[The Earl Grey]] | predecessor5 = [[The Viscount Goderich]] | successor5 = [[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon|Thomas Spring Rice]] | office6 = [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]] | term_start6 = 29 November 1830 | term_end6 = 29 March 1833 | prime_minister6 = The Earl Grey | predecessor6 = [[Sir Henry Hardinge]] | successor6 = [[John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton|Sir John Hobhouse]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1799|3|29}} | birth_place = [[Knowsley Hall]], [[Knowsley, Merseyside|Knowsley, Lancashire]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1869|10|23|1799|3|29}} | death_place = Knowsley Hall, Knowsley, Lancashire, England | alma_mater = [[Christ Church, Oxford]] | party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] | other_party = [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] (before 1841) | parents = {{plainlist}} * [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby]] * Charlotte Margaret Hornby {{endplainlist}} | spouse = {{marriage|[[Emma Bootle-Wilbraham]]|31 May 1825}} | children = 3, including [[Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby|Edward, 15th Earl of Derby]] and [[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby|Frederick, 16th Earl of Derby]] | signature = Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Signature.svg | signature_alt = Cursive signature in ink }}

'''Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby''' (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869), known as '''Lord Stanley''' from 1834 to 1851, was a British statesman and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who served three times as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. To date, he is the longest-serving [[Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)|leader of the Conservative Party]] (1846–68). He is one of only four British prime ministers to have three or more separate periods in office.<ref>The other three being [[William Ewart Gladstone]], [[Lord Salisbury]] and [[Stanley Baldwin]]</ref> However, his ministries each lasted less than two years and totalled three years and 280 days. Derby introduced the state education system in Ireland, and reformed Parliament.<ref>William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earl Buckle, ''The Life of Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield, vol. 2'' (1912), p, 451.</ref>

Historian Frances Walsh has written that it was Derby: {{blockquote|who educated the party and acted as its strategist to pass the last great [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] measure, the [[1867 Reform Act]]. It was his greatest achievement to create the modern Conservative Party in the framework of the Whig constitution, though it was [[Disraeli]] who laid claim to it.<ref name="auto">Frances Walsh, "Derby, Edward Stanley 14th Earl of," in David Loades, ed. ''Reader's guide to British history'' (2003) 1: 348–49.</ref>}}

Scholars long ignored his role but in the 21st century rank him highly among all British prime ministers.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Strangio|author2=Paul 't Hart|author3=James Walter|title=Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kMu2nAZmMbEC&pg=PA225|year=2013|publisher=Oxford UP|page=225|isbn=9780199666423}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Edward Smith-Stanley was born on 19 March 1799 at [[Knowsley Hall]], [[Lancashire]]. He was the eldest son of [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby]], and his wife (and first cousin) Charlotte Margaret Hornby. He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and at [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref>Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003</ref>

Stanley's ancestors were [[King of Man|Kings of Man]] from 1405 and later [[Lord of Mann|Lords of Man]]. [[Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby]], switched sides at the [[Battle of Bosworth]] and placed the crown of the fallen King [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] upon the head of [[Henry VII of England|Henry Tudor]]. {{clear|left}}

==Early political career, 1822–1852== [[File:Frederick Richard Say (1805-1868) - Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby - NPG 1806 - National Portrait Gallery.jpg|upright|thumb|left|''[[Portrait of the Earl of Derby]]'' by [[Frederick Richard Say]], 1844]] In 1822 Edward Stanley, as he was then, was elected to Parliament in the [[rotten borough]] of [[Stockbridge (UK Parliament constituency)|Stockbridge]] as a [[British Whig Party|Whig]], the traditional party of his family.<ref name="Hawkins Vol I">{{cite book|last1=Hawkins|first1=Angus|title=The Forgotten Prime Minister – The 14th Earl of Derby Volume I Ascent: 1799–1851|date=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press Inc|location=New York|isbn=9780199204403|page=29|edition=1st}}</ref> In 1824, however, he alienated some of his Whig colleagues by voting against [[Joseph Hume]]'s motion for an investigation into the established Protestant [[Church of Ireland]].<ref>Hawkins Vol I p32–3</ref> He lost his seat in 1826. When the Whigs returned to power in 1830, Stanley became [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]] in [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey|Lord Grey's]] Government, and entered the Cabinet in 1831. As Chief Secretary Stanley pursued a series of coercive measures which frequently brought him into conflict with the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]], [[Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey|Lord Anglesey]].<ref>Hawkins Vol I p75–125</ref> In October 1831, Stanley wrote the [[Stanley Letter]], to [[Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster]], establishing the system of National Education in Ireland. This letter remains today the legal basis for the predominant form of primary education in Ireland.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Origin of our schools goes back to one letter|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-20458082.html|last=O'Donovan|first=Patrick|date=2017-09-01|access-date=2021-11-09|work=[[Irish Examiner]]}}</ref> In 1833, Stanley moved up to the more important position of [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]], overseeing the passage of the [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833|Abolition of Slavery Bill]].<ref>Hawkins Vol I p125–134</ref>

Stanley, a religiously devout Anglican, broke with the ministry over the reform of the Anglican [[Church of Ireland]] in 1834 and resigned from the government. He then formed a group called the "[[Derby Dilly]]" and attempted to chart a middle course between what they saw as the increasingly [[Radicals (UK)|radical]] Whiggery of [[Lord John Russell]] and the conservatism of the Tories. Tory leader Sir [[Robert Peel]]'s turn to the centre with the 1834 [[Tamworth Manifesto]], published three days before Stanley's "Knowsley Creed" speech, robbed the Stanleyites of much of the uniqueness of their programme.<ref>Hawkins Vol I p157–60</ref>

The term "Derby Dilly" was coined by Irish Nationalist leader [[Daniel O'Connell]]. Besides Stanley, the other principal members of the Dilly were Sir [[Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet|James Graham]], who had resigned as [[First Lord of the Admiralty]]; [[Frederick Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon|Lord Ripon]], who had resigned as [[Lord Privy Seal]]; and the [[Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond|Duke of Richmond]], who had resigned as [[United Kingdom Postmaster General|Postmaster General]]. These four ministers had come from notably different political backgrounds—Stanley and Graham were old Whigs, Ripon was a former [[Canningite]] Tory prime minister, while Richmond was an arch-conservative Tory who had incongruously found himself in the Grey cabinet.

Although they did not participate in Peel's short-lived [[First Peel ministry|1835 ministry]], over the next several years they gradually merged into Peel's Conservative Party, with several members of the "Derby Dilly" taking prominent positions in [[Second Peel ministry|Peel's second ministry]]. Joining the Conservatives, Stanley again served as Colonial Secretary in Peel's second government in 1841.<ref>Hawkins Vol I p224–5</ref> In 1844 he was summoned to the [[House of Lords]] as Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe in his father's [[Earl of Derby|Barony of Stanley]] by a [[Writ of acceleration]].<ref>Hawkins Vol I p290</ref><ref name="Saintsbury">{{cite book|last1=Saintsbury|first1=George|title=The Earl of Derby|url=https://archive.org/details/earlderby00saingoog|date=1892|publisher=Harper and Brothers|location=New York|page=51}}</ref> He broke with the Prime Minister again in 1845, this time over the repeal of the [[Corn Laws]], and managed to bring the majority of the Conservative Party with him (including, among others, the young [[Benjamin Disraeli]]). He thereafter led the [[protectionist]] faction of the Conservative Party. In the House of Lords, on 23 November 1847, he accused the Irish Catholic clergy of using the confessional to encourage lawlessness and crime.<ref>Refutation of Lord Stanley's Calumnies against the Catholic Clergy of Ireland, reprint, Dublin, 1850</ref> This was disputed in a series of letters by the coadjutor [[Bishop of Derry]], [[Edward Maginn]]. In 1851 he succeeded his father as Earl of Derby.

The party system was in a state of flux when the Conservatives left office in 1846, the outstanding issues being the question of Ireland and the unresolved franchise. The protectionists had a core of leaders, of whom Derby was a leading light.

==Premierships, 1852–1869== He is the only modern-era prime minister who never enjoyed a parliamentary majority. In his private diary, the [[James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury|Earl of Malmesbury]] in 1857 commented on Derby's failure to exploit the press: {{blockquote|Lord Derby has never been able to realise the sudden growth and power of the Political Press, for which he has no partiality, which feeling is reciprocated by its members. In these days this is a fatal error in men who wish to obtain public power and distinction. Lord Derby is too proud a man to flatter anybody, even his greatest friends and equals, much less those of whom he knows nothing.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Brighton|title=Original Spin: Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCgzCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT113|year=2016|publisher=I.B.Tauris|page=105|isbn=9781780760599}}</ref>}}

===First government=== {{Further|Who? Who? ministry}} [[File:Lord-Derby-1852.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.5|1852 illustration of Derby]]

Derby formed a [[minority government]] in February 1852 following the collapse of [[Lord John Russell]]'s Whig Government. In this new ministry, Benjamin Disraeli was appointed [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]. With many senior Conservative ministers having followed Peel, Derby was forced to appoint many new men to the office of the Cabinet, only three were pre-existing [[Privy Counsellors]]. When the aged [[Duke of Wellington]], by then very deaf, heard the list of inexperienced cabinet ministers being read aloud in the House of Lords, he gave the government its nickname by shouting "Who? Who?". From then this government would be known as the "Who? Who?" ministry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/derby.htm |title=Biography-Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869) |last=Bloy |first=Marjorie |work=A Web of English History |year=2011 |access-date=6 April 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110514090500/http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/derby.htm| archive-date= 14 May 2011| url-status= live}}</ref>

Traditionally Derby's ministries were thought in hindsight to have been dominated by Disraeli. However, recent research suggests that this was not always the case, especially in the government's conduct of foreign policy.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} There, Derby and his [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Foreign Secretaries]], [[James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury|Lord Malmesbury]] and later his son [[Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby|Lord Stanley]], pursued a course of action that was aimed at building up power through financial strength, seeking to avoid wars at all costs, co-operating with other powers, and working through the [[Concert of Europe]] to resolve diplomatic problems. This contrasted sharply with the policy of military strength and prestige that Disraeli would later pursue, and Derby's very different take on foreign policy could be seen as the precursor of "[[splendid isolation]]", as well as the diplomatic settlement of Europe pursued by later Conservatives in the late 19th century and the 1930s.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}

In the [[1852 United Kingdom general election|general election of June 1852]], the Conservative party under Derby and Disraeli won only 330 seats in the House of Commons—42.9% of the total. Although the Whigs actually won fewer seats—292 seats—there were several small groups in Parliament that might be willing to side with the Whigs on particular issues, including the 38 Conservative members of Parliament who were [[Peelites]], who had already joined with the Whigs in June 1846 to repeal the [[Corn Laws]]; the 113 members who were Free Traders and who were interested in eliminating all tariffs on consumer goods; and the 63 members of the [[Independent Irish Party|Irish Brigade]] who were interested in the independence of Ireland and Tenant's Rights for Irish tenants.<ref>C. H. Stuart, "The Formation of the Coalition Cabinet of 1852." ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' (Fifth Series) 4 (1954): 45–68.</ref> Immediately following the election in June 1852, none of these small groups were willing to work with the Whigs to form a government. Accordingly, the Earl of Derby was invited to form a minority government. Derby did so and appointed Disraeli as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.<ref>J. T. Ward, "Derby and Disraeli." in Donald Southgate, ed., ''The Conservative Leadership 1832–1932'' (1974) pp 58–100.</ref>

As with all minority governments, Derby's minority government had a difficult time governing. Their main preoccupation was avoiding any issue which might cause any of the government's small components to go over to Whigs and cause a "no confidence" vote. However, the real issues facing Parliament could not be postponed for long, and when Disraeli submitted his first budget to Parliament in December 1852, it proved so unpopular with the Peelites, the Free Traders, and the Irish Brigade that it was voted down in a "no confidence" vote. As a result, Derby's minority government fell, making way for a [[Aberdeen ministry|Peelite–Whig coalition]] under [[Lord Aberdeen]]. When Aberdeen's administration fell in 1855, [[Queen Victoria]] asked Derby to form a government.<ref>Hawkins Vol II p106</ref> Much to the consternation of some sections of his party, including Disraeli, Derby declined this offer, believing that he would be in a position to form a stronger government after a short-lived failed administration led by one of the Conservative Party's rivals such as Lord John Russell or [[Lord Palmerston]].<ref>Hawkins Vol II p106–11</ref><ref>Dick Leonard, "George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen—Failure or Scapegoat?." in Leonard, ''Nineteenth-Century British Premiers'' (2008). 232–244.</ref>

===Second government=== {{Further|Second Derby–Disraeli ministry}} [[File:Edward-Stanley-14th-Earl-of-Derby.jpg|thumb|upright|Derby in 1861]] In 1858, Derby formed another minority government upon the resignation of Lord Palmerston following a parliamentary defeat to an opposition motion which, in the context of a failed plot to assassinate [[Napoleon III]] of France, charged that "the ministry had admitted they sheltered assassins".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hawkins|first1=Angus|title=The Forgotten Prime Minister – the 14th Earl of Derby – Volume II Achievement: 1851–1869|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press Inc|location=New York|isbn=9780199204403|page=156|edition=1st|ref=Hawkins Vol II}}</ref> Disraeli was again at the Exchequer and Leader of the Commons. Among the notable achievements of this administration was the end of the [[British East India Company]] following the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], which brought India under direct British control for the first time. Once again the government was short-lived, resigning after only one year, having narrowly lost a vote of no-confidence brought by [[Lord Hartington]] on behalf of various Whig and Radical factions which had coalesced at the [[Willis's Rooms]] meetings in [[St James's Street]] to mark the birth of the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]].<ref>Hawkins Vol II pp 223–7</ref> In July 1859, Derby was appointed a [[Knight of the Garter]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=22281 |date=1 July 1859 |page=2549}}</ref>

Back in opposition, Derby pursued a strategy of trying to lure the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, away from his more radical colleagues, Lord John Russell in particular.<ref>Hawkins Vol II pp 252–3</ref> This tactic was thwarted by Russell's declining influence and by Chancellor of the Exchequer [[William Ewart Gladstone]]'s 1861 budget which united the cabinet and increased divisions amongst the Conservatives.<ref>Hawkins Vol II pp 259–60</ref> Palmerston continued as Prime Minister until his death in 1865, when he was succeeded by the ineffective Russell.<ref>Hawkins Vol II p 298</ref>

===Third government=== {{Further|Third Derby–Disraeli ministry}}

Derby returned to power for the third and last time in 1866, following the collapse of Lord Russell's second government after its failed attempt at further electoral reform.<ref>Hawkins Vol II pp 306–7</ref> Once again, Disraeli was a leading figure. This administration was particularly notable for the passage of the [[Reform Act 1867]], which greatly expanded the suffrage but which provoked the resignation of three cabinet ministers including the Secretary for India and future three-time Prime Minister, [[Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Lord Cranborne]] (later Lord Salisbury).<ref>Hawkins Vol II p 341</ref> In early 1868, Derby retired from political life on medical advice, leaving Disraeli to succeed him.<ref>Hawkins Vol II pp 364–6</ref> In 1869, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] in recognition of his former role as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=7968 |date=2 July 1869 |page=794 |city=e}}</ref> He was appointed [[Colonel (United Kingdom)#Honorary Colonel|Honorary Colonel]] of the [[1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps]] on 10 September 1862, beginning a family connection with the regiment that endured for over 100 years.<ref>''Army List''.</ref>

Derby's tenure of 22 years as party leader still stands as the longest in Conservative Party history and indeed the history of any other political party in British history. Only [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]'s [[Clement Attlee]] came close, at 20 years.<ref>Stuart, C. H. "The Formation of the Coalition Cabinet of 1852." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Fifth Series) 4 (1954): 45–68.</ref>

During Derby's third premiership, a [[factory Act]] was passed in 1866 “dealing with uncleanliness, inadequate ventilation, and overcrowding in factories.” The provisions of this Act were extended to other trades in 1867, and as a result of this Act "1,500,000 women and children were admitted to the benefits of the factory laws." That same year an Act was passed regulating the hours of women workers in every workshop.<ref>Conservative social and industrial reform: A record of Conservative legislation between 1800 and 1974 by Charles E, Bellairs, P.15</ref> The [[Master and Servant Act 1867]] was also introduced during his final term.

==Marriage and issue== [[File:Emma Smith-Stanley.jpg|thumb|upright|left|The Countess of Derby]] Stanley married [[Emma Caroline Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby|The Hon. Emma Bootle-Wilbraham]], the second daughter of [[Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale]], on 31 May 1825. They had six children, half of whom survived to adulthood:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |title=The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility |date=1901 |publisher=Hurst and Blackett Limited |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BLY4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA214 |access-date=4 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith}}</ref>

*[[Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby]] (21 July 1826 – 21 April 1893), married Lady Mary Sackville-West (daughter of [[George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr|5th Earl De La Warr]]) on 5 July 1870, without issue * Ferdinand Charles (26 – 27 July 1829), died in infancy<ref>{{cite news |title=Births. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18290808/046/0003 |access-date=4 January 2025 |work=[[Manchester Courier]] |date=8 August 1829 |page=3|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * Daughter (born and died 3 May 1832), died in infancy<ref>{{cite news |title=Births. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18320512/027/0003 |access-date=4 January 2025 |work=[[Manchester Courier]] |date=12 May 1832 |page=3|url-access=subscription}}</ref> *Lady Emma Charlotte Stanley (25 December 1835 – 23 August 1928). She married [[Colonel]] Sir [[Patrick Talbot|Patrick Chetwynd-Talbot]] [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] (son of [[Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot]]) on 11 October 1860. They had eight children. *Hon. Charles Stanley (born and died 6 August 1838), died in infancy *[[Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby]] (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908), married Lady Constance Villiers (daughter of [[George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon]]) on 31 May 1864. They had ten children.

==Death== Lord Derby died at Knowsley Hall on 23 October 1869 at the age of 70. The Countess of Derby died on 26 April 1876.

==Legacy== {{See also|Statue of the Earl of Derby, Parliament Square}} [[File:Earl of Derby statue.jpg|thumb|upright|Statue in London's [[Parliament Square]]]] Historian [[David Cannadine]] argues: {{blockquote|Although almost entirely forgotten today, Derby was one of the great figures of 19th-century British public, social and cultural life: he was a fine debater, a classical scholar of note and a significant patron of the turf; he was also an authentic grandee, with very rich, coal-bearing estates in Lancashire, and leader of the Conservative Party for an unrivalled span of 22 years.<ref>David Cannadine, ''Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906'' (2019) p. 288.</ref>}}

Historian Frances Walsh has written: {{blockquote|Although he was the first politician to become prime minister three times and remains the longest-serving party leader in British history he has not received the recognition one would expect. As a landed aristocrat with Whig antecedents, literary tastes, and a passionate interest in shooting and the turf he seemed to represent an obsolete, amateur tradition in politics, while the mythologizing of Disraeli as the architect of conservative survival and success tended to cast him into the shadows. This neglect was compounded by the absence of an official biography and problems of access to the Derby archives for a century after his death. Recent Studies have done something to redress the balance… It was Derby who educated the party and acted as its strategist to pass the last great Whig measure, the [[1867 Reform Act]]. It was his greatest achievement to create the modern Conservative Party in the framework of the Whig constitution, though it was Disraeli who laid claim to it.<ref name="auto"/>}}

The [[National school (Ireland)|National School system in Ireland]], the predominant form of primary school education, was unable to sustain the [[National_school_(Ireland)#History|multi-denominational system]] set up by Stanley in the [[Stanley Letter]].<ref name="irish-education-documents-vol1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=0J60EwwZUyAC&pg=PA98 Irish Educational Documents, vol. 1], Áine Hyland, Kenneth Milne, Church of Ireland College of Education, pp.98-103</ref> The letter had tried to deal with the seemingly intractable issue of different Christian religions living together in Ireland, but by the end of the century denominational schools had become the norm.

The former site of [[Fort Langley, British Columbia]] was renamed [[Derby, British Columbia|Derby]] by the [[Royal Engineers]] in 1858, apparently in honour of the Earl, who was British Prime Minister at the time. [[Stanley, Falkland Islands|Stanley]] (sometimes referred to as "Port Stanley") on [[East Falkland]], capital of the [[Falkland Islands]], is named after Edward Smith-Stanley as are [[Port Stanley, Ontario|Port Stanley]] in Ontario, Canada (he did not visit his namesake but he had visited nearby [[Port Talbot, Ontario]] during his Canadian/American trip in 1824<ref>{{cite web | url=https://victorianweb.org/history/pms/derby1.html | title=Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869) }}</ref>), as well as the area [[Stanley, Hong Kong|Stanley]] in Hong Kong. Stanley was Prime Minister when Queen Victoria opened [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]], in Berkshire, a tribute to the [[Duke of Wellington]], where the boarding house Stanley is named after him. The [[County of Stanley, Queensland]], Australia, is named after the Earl. Notably, it contains the important Australian city of [[Brisbane]].

A library book about Smith-Stanley titled ''The Earl of Derby'', written by [[George Saintsbury]] and published in 1892, was borrowed from the Newtown Library in [[Wellington]], New Zealand, in March 1902 and returned in August 2020 (118 years later) after being discovered in Sydney, Australia. The book was described as being "in OK condition".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300087745/wellington-city-libraries-waives-fines-after-book-borrowed-in-1902-returned |title=Wellington City Libraries 'waives' fines after book borrowed in 1902 returned|first=Georgia-May|last=Gilbertson|work=Stuff|date=20 August 2020|access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/overdue-book-returned-wellington-library-decades-later-after-being-found-in-sydney-opshop|title=Overdue book returned to Wellington library decades later, after being found in Sydney opshop |work=1 News |publisher=TVNZ |date=21 August 2020|access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref>

==Arms== {{Emblem table | image = Coat of arms of Stanley, Earls of Derby, KG.svg | imagesize = 260px | crest = On a chapeau gules turned up ermine an eagle, wings extended, or, preying on an infant in its cradle proper, swaddled gules, the cradle laced or. | escutcheon = Argent, on a bend azure three stags' heads caboshed or. | supporters = Dexter, a griffin, wings elevated; sinister, a stag, each or, and ducally collared with line reflexed over the back azure. | orders = The Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG). | motto = ''Sans changer'' (Without changing).<ref>{{cite book |title=Burke's Peerage and Baronetage |pages=428-431 |year=1899 |URL=https://ukga.org/browse.php?action=ViewRec&DB=33&bookID=224&pagecount=568}}</ref> }}

==See also== {{Portal|Biography}} *{{slink|English translations of Homer|Derby}} *[[List of statues and sculptures in Liverpool]]

==Notes and references== {{reflist}}

==Further reading==

* Blake, Robert "The 14th Earl of Derby" ''History Today'' (Dec 1955) 5#12 pp 850–859. * Foster, R. E. "A Life In The Political Centre: The 14Th Earl Of Derby." ''History Review'' 64 (2009): 1–6. * Hawkins, Angus. "Lord Derby and Victorian Conservatism: a Reappraisal." ''Parliamentary History'' 6.2 (1987): 280–301. * {{cite book|last1=Hawkins|first1=Angus|title=The Forgotten Prime Minister – The 14th Earl of Derby Volume I Ascent: 1799–1851|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780199204403}} [https://networks.h-net.org/node/16749/reviews/18335/floyd-hawkins-forgotten-prime-minister-14th-earl-derby-vol-1-ascent online review of Hawkins vol 1] ** Hawkins, Angus. ''The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II: Achievement, 1851–1869'' (Vol. 2. Oxford University Press, 2007). * Hawkins, Angus. "A Host in Himself: Lord Derby and Aristocratic Leadership." ''Parliamentary History'' 22.1 (2003): 75–90. * Hicks, Geoffrey. ''Peace, war and party politics: the Conservatives and Europe, 1846–59'' (Manchester UP, 2007). * Jones, Wilbur. ''[https://archive.org/details/lordderbyvictori0000jone/page/n7/mode/2up Lord Derby and Victorian Conservatism]'' (1956). * Leonard, Dick. "Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby—‘The Brilliant Chief, Irregularly Great’." in Leonard, ''Nineteenth-Century British Premiers'' (2008) pp. 217-231. * Stewart, Robert. ''The Politics of Protection: Lord Derby and the Protectionist Party, 1841–1852'' (Cambridge UP, 1971). * Ward, J. T. " Derby and Disraeli" in Donald Southgate, ed. ''The Conservative Leadership 1832–1932'' (1974) [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-349-15522-4 online]

===Primary sources=== * Hicks, Geoff, et al. eds. ''Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878'' (2013), 550 documents [https://www.amazon.com/Documents-Conservative-Foreign-Policy-1852-1878/dp/1107035929/ excerpt]

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