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 7G DERBY. Lane. 1771-76 ; Lord Lieut, thereof 1776-1831 ; Col. of the Lime. Militia 1772 ; Col. iu the army ((hiring service) 1779 ; P.C. 1783 ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lane. Aug. to Dec. 1783 and again Feb. to March 1S06. He in. firstly 23 June 1771, at Kew, near Richmond, Surrey, Elizabeth, ( a ) da. (whose issue in 1799 became sole heir) of James (Hamilton), 6th Dike ok Hamilton [S]. by (the beautiful) Elizabeth, da. of John GrNNlNG. She, who was b. 26 Jany. 1753, at Holyrood House, Edinburgh, d. iu Tortmau Sq., Midx., M March 1797 (having long been separated from her husband) and was hnr. 2 April at Bromley, co. Kent. He m. secondly, a few weeks subsequently, 1 May 1797, at his house iii Grosvenor Square, Midx., " Elizabeth Farran(>') spinster," whose father George F. was sometime a surgeon at Cork (afterwards an actor) and whose mother was da. of ( — ) Whigut, a Publican at Liverpool. She who was an actress of some notc( 1 '} d. 23 April 1829, aged 66, at Knowsley Park and was bur. at Ormskirk. He d. 21 Oct. 1831, aged S2 at Knowsley and was fall*, at Ormskirk afsd. Will pr. Nov. 1S35. XXII. 1834. 13. Edward (Smith-Stanley), Earl of Derby, s. and h., by 1st wife, b. 21 April 1775, at St. Geo. Han. Sq., styled Loud Stanley till 1332; ed. at Trim Coll., Cambridge ; M.A. 1793 ; Col. of the 2d Reg, of Lane. Militia 1797 and Col. iu Ihe army (during service) 179S; M.P. for Preston 1796-1812; for co. Lancaster 1812-32; a: D.C.L. of Oxford 23 June 1S19 ; Vice- Admiral, co. Lane, 1831. On 22 Dec. 1832 (there being no Barony vested in his father wherein he could be sum. to the House of Lords) he was cr. BARON STANLEY OF BICKERSTAFFE, co. Lancaster. In 1834 he sue. his father in the Earldom of Derby, and as Lord Lieut, of co. Lancaster; K.G. 2 April 1S39. He was President of the Linna?au Society 1S28 to 1833 and President of the Zoological Society( d ) till his death. He m. 30 Oct. 1798, his cousin Charlotte-Margaret, 2d da. of the Rev. Geoffrey Hornby, Rector of Wiuwick, co. Lane, by Lucy, sister of Edward (Smith-Stanley), 12th Earl ok Derby next above named. She who was b. 20 Oct. 1778, d. 16 June 1817. He d. 30 Juno 1851, aged 76, at Knowsley Park. Will pr. Oct. 1851. XXIII. 1851. 14. Edward-Geoffrey (Smith-Stanley), E.vrl of Derby, &c., s. and h., b. 19 March 1799, at Knowsley Park ; styled Lord Stanley till 1844 ; ed. at Eton and at Ch. Ch., Oxford (matric. 17 Oct. 1817), gaining the Latin verse prize {"Syracuse") in 1819; M.P., Stockhridgo, 1820-26 ; Preston 1826-30 ; Windsor 1830-32 ; North Lancashire 1832-44, being sum. to the House of Lords v.p. 4 Nov. 1844, as Lord Stanley ok Bickerstafee. He had meanwhile been Under Sec. for the Colonies 1827-28 ; P.C. 1830; P.C. [I]. 1S31 ; Chief Sec. for Ireland 1830-33 and a Cabinet Minister, June 1831 ; Sec. of State for the Colonies, 1833-34 and again 1841-45. He had also been Lord Rector of the Univ. of Glasgow, 1S34-36. Soon after succeeding to the Earldom he became first Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister) Feb. to Dec. 1852, March 1858 to June 1859, and for the 3d time June 1866 to Feb. 1868 ;(») Chancellor of the Univ. of Oxford 1S52-69, (") See tabular pedigree in vol. i, p. 7 (note) sub "Abercom,,' shewing the Earls of Derby to be, thro' this match, heirs of line to James (Hamilton), Earl of Arran [S.] (Regent of Scotland) and Due de ClialcUcrault in France, and consequently not improbably entitled to that Dukedom. (") So spelt in the registry one of the witnesses being " Margaret Farran." (<0 She appeared first on the stage, at Bath, at a very early age ; was acting iu 177 1 with her mother and sister (Margaret afterwards Mrs. Knight) at Wakefield aud at Liverpool (as Rosetta) in "Love in a Village." In 1777 she appeared in London, acting in *' She Stoops to Conquer," and iu most of the well known plays for twenty years, taking leave on 7 April 1797, (as ''Lady Teazle") n few weeks before her marriage. Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence has often been engraved. ( d ) " So great was his attachment to Zoology that he. had formed at Knowsley such collections of living animals and birds as far surpass any menagerie or aviary Previously attempted by any private person in this country." See " Annual Reg." for (°) As a Scholar his translation of the "Iliad " testifies his excellence ; as an Orator his impetuous eloquence gave him the name of "the Jlupcrt of debate"; while as a Statesman, hia character belongs to the history of his country.