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Stanley, Edward Henry, fifteenth earl of Derby (1826–1893), politician and diarist, was born on 21 July 1826 at Knowsley, the family seat in Lancashire, the eldest son of Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley (1799–1869), from 1851 the fourteenth earl of Derby, and his wife, ...
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Subjects: Literature ; Literary Studies (Fiction, Novelists, and Prose Writers) ; UK Politics
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