Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
1799–1869
Scholar, orator, and prime minister. Whig MP for North Lancashire, 1832–44. Chief secretary for Ireland, 1830–3. Colonial secretary, 1833–4 and 1841–5. Conservative prime minister, 1852, 1858–9, 1866–8. Appointed chancellor of Oxford University, 1852. Supported gradual parliamentary reform.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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