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 Stamer's mother's family to the bishops of Lichfield, and provided for the material increase of the incomes of six neighbouring parishes.

Stamer resigned the rectory of Stoke in 1892, and from that year to 1896 he was vicar of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury. At Shrewsbury he set the schools on a sound basis, starting a club-house for boys, and obtaining a new scheme for the parochial charities. He was for a time a member of the Shrewsbury school board. As chaplain to the corporation of Shrewsbury, he denounced the bribery and corruption which were prevalent in the town, and the insanitary condition of the slums. In 1896 Stamer became rector of Edgmond, the patron of which had conveyed it to trustees as an endowment for the assistant or suffragan bishop for the time being. Here he built new schools, obtained a water supply at his own expense, and provided a working men's club and reading-room. Owing to illness he resigned the rectory of Edgmond and his suffragan bishopric in September 1905, and removed to Halingdene, a house at Penkridge, Staffordshire, where he died on 29 Oct. 1908. He was buried at Hartshill cemetery, Stoke-upon-Trent. He was married at Hunsingore, Yorkshire, on 16 April 1857 to Ellen Isabel, only daughter of Joseph Dent of Ribston Hall, Yorkshire. His wife, five sons, and three daughters survived him. A portrait of the bishop in his robes, painted by the Hon. John Collier, was presented to him in April 1893 by North Staffordshire friends.

Besides several single sermons and articles in the ‘Church Sunday School Institute Magazine,’ Stamer published: 1. ‘Charges to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Stoke-upon-Trent,’ 1887–8. 2. ‘The Holy Communion considered as generally necessary to Salvation,’ 1858.

 STANLEY, FREDERICK ARTHUR, sixteenth  (1841–1908), governor-general of Canada, born in London on 15 Jan. 1841, was second son in the family of three children of Edward Geoffrey Stanley, fourteenth earl of Derby [q. v.], three times prime minister, by his wife Emma Caroline, daughter of Edward Bootle Wilbraham, first Baron Skelmersdale (created 1828), and aunt of Edward Bootle Wilbraham, first earl of Lathom (created 1880). Stanley's elder brother was Edward Henry Stanley, fifteenth earl [q. v.].

Frederick Stanley, after education at Eton, joined the grenadier guards in 1858. In 1865 he retired from the army as lieutenant and captain. He was subsequently honorary colonel of the third and fourth battalions of the King's own royal Lancashire regiment, and of the first volunteer battalion of the Liverpool regiment. On leaving the army Stanley was returned to the House of Commons unopposed as one of the conservative members for Preston, near which the family estates lay (11 July 1865). When his father resigned in Feb. 1868 and Disraeli became prime minister, he received his first official appointment, as a civil lord of the admiralty. At the general election in November he successfully contested North Lancashire jointly with Colonel Wilson-Patten (afterwards Lord Winmarleigh), displacing Lord Hartington, who had sat for the constituency as a liberal since 1857. Stanley represented this constituency until 1885, being returned unopposed at the general election in 1874 and at two bye-elections (on taking office on 8 April 1878 and 1 July 1885), and after a contest at the general election in 1880. After the Redistribution Act of 1885 he sat for the Blackpool division until he was raised to the peerage in 1886, being unopposed at the general elections of Nov. 1885 and July 1886.

Stanley, following in the steps of his father and brother, held a long succession of political offices. In Feb. 1874 he was appointed financial secretary to the war office in Disraeli's second administration. Although he was ineffective as a speaker, his capacity for business was acknowledged by his chief the secretary of state for war, Gathorne-Hardy, who deplored his transfer in August 1877 to the financial secretaryship to the treasury (Life of Gathorne-Hardy, ii. 29). Some months later (April 1878) he returned to the war office as secretary of state, was admitted to the privy council, and joined the cabinet. 