Background
Stanley was the second child and first son of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley and Mary Katherine Bell.
Stanley was the second child and first son of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley and Mary Katherine Bell.
Stanley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford where obtained a Bachelor in 1898.
They had five children:
Mary Katherine Adelaide Stanley (30 May 1906 – 1981)
Edward John Stanley (9 October 1907 – 3 March 1971), the 6th Baron
Pamela Margaret Stanley (born 6 September 1909), the actress Pamela Stanley
Lyulph Henry Victor Owen Stanley (22 October 1915 – 23 June 1971), the 7th Baron
Victoria Venetia Stanley (born 29 June 1917)
In 1902 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Whilst an Member of Parliament he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Postmaster General serving under Sydney Buxton. In 1913 he was serving as High Sheriff of Anglesey when he was appointed Governor of Victoria.
He served a five-year term and an additional year until relinquishing the post on 30 January 1920, although he had returned to Britain the previous year due to ill health.
In the 1923 General election he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Knutsford, losing by 80 votes to Conservative, Sir Ernest Makins. From 1925 to 1928 he was Chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute and of the East Africa Joint Committee.
In 1925 he succeeded his father to the three baronies and was known by the Stanley title. He died in August 1931 of a bacterial infection, actinomycosis.
In his capacity as former Governor of Victoria, he attended the Covent Garden farewell of the Australian soprano Nellie Melba, and made a speech thanking her for her artistry and war-work.
HMV recorded several excerpts of the evening, including Lord Stanley"s speech, all of which can be heard on Civil Defense today.
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In 1904 he became a London County Councillor and in 1906 became Liberal Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire near the family seat.