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LEFT STANLEY, SIR ALBERT 52 STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON ist Member of Parliament for Ashton- under-Lyme in 1916, and in tK'at year was also made president of the Board of Trade. STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN, an English clergyman; son of the Bishop of Norwich, born in Alderley, Cheshire, Dec. 13, 1815; was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold (1829-1834). As a scholar of Balliol, he gained the New- digate, Ireland, and other university dis- tinctions; took a first class in classics (1837) ; and was elected fellow of Uni- versity College (1840). Taking orders, he was for 12 years tutor of his college; Select Preacher (1845-1846) ; secretary to the Oxford University Commission (1850-1852) ; canon of Canterbury (1851-1858); Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and canon of Christ Church (1858-1864); in 1863 de- clined the archbishopric of Dublin; and became next year the Dean of Westmin- ster. St. Andrews University conferred on him the degree of LL.D (1871), and he was installed its rector (1875). He made a tour in the East (1852-1853), and again as chaplain to the Prince of Wales (1862), performed the Protestant marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh at St. Petersburg (1874), and visited the United States (1878). The leader after Maurice's death of the "Broad Church" party, he showed sympathies with free thought by his action in the "Essays and Reviews" and Colenso controver- sies; by his presence at the second "Old Catholic" Congress; by invitations to Dissenters and Max Miiller to preach or lecture in the Abbey. Among his numerous publications are the "Life of Arnold" (1844, 9th ed. 1875) ; "Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age" (1846, 3d ed. (1874) ; "Memoir of Bishop Stan- ley" (1850); "Epistles to the Corin- thians, with Notes and Dissertations" (1854, 4th ed. 1876); "Historical Memorials of Canterbury Cathedral" (1854, 6th ed. 1872); "Sinai and Palestine" (1855, 20th ed. 1874); "Lectures on the Eastern Church" (1861, 4th ed. 1869) ; "Lectures on the Jewish Church" (3 series, 1862-1875, 7th ed. 1877) ; "Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey" (1867, 4th ed. 1874) ; "Essays on Questions of Church and State from 1850 to 1870" (1870) ; "The Athanasian Creed" (1871) ; "Lec- tures on the Church of Scotland" (1872) ; and "Addresses and Sermons at St. Andrews" (1877). He married in 1863 Lady Augusta Bruce, daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin. He died in his deanery, July 18, 1881, and was buried in the chapel of Henry VII., Westmin- ster Abbey. STANLEY, AUGUSTUS OWSLEY, an American public official, born in Shelby- ville, Ky., in 1867. He graduated from Centre College in 1889. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and began the prac- tice of law at Henderson, Ky. He was elected to the 58th Congress, and was successively re-elected until 1915, in which year he was elected governor of Kentucky. He was elected United States Senator in 1918, for the term ending 1925. STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON, an English explorer; born near Denbigh, Wales, in 1840; name originally John Rowlands. When three years old he be- came an inmate of the poorhouse at St, Asaph, where he made such progress in the school that he was employed as a teacher of other children at Mold, Flint- shire, when he went away at the age of 13. Two years later he sailed as cabin boy on board a vessel bound for New Orleans, and in that city he found a friend in a merchant, who adopted him and gave him his own name, but died HENRY M. STANLEY leaving no will. Young Stanley, left to his own resources, went to California, where he sought his fortune in the gold mines. When the Civil War broke out he became a soldier in the Confederate army. He was made prisoner, and sub- sequently took service in the United States navy, becoming acting ensign on the ironclad "Ticonderoga." After the close of the war he became a newspaper correspondent, writing a series of letters from Crete and Asia Minor. When the English expedition was sent against King Theodore of Abyssinia in 1867 he accompanied it as commissioner of the New York "Herald." He made his repu-