Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield

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name = Arthur Lyulph Stanley

honorific-suffix = 5th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 4th Baron Eddisbury, KCMG


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order = 14th
office = Governor of Victoria
term_start = February 23, 1914
term_end = January 30, 1920
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monarch = King George V
predecessor = Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet
successor = George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke
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birth_date = birth date|1875|9|14
birth_place = London, England, UK
death_date = death date and age|1931|8|22|1875|10|14
death_place = London, England, UK
nationality = British
spouse = Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon
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children =Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley
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Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 4th Baron Eddisbury MA, KCMG (14 September 1875 – 22 August 1931) was an English nobleman and Governor of Victoria from 1914 to 1920.

Stanley was the second child and first son of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield and Mary Katherine Bell. On 29 August 1905 he married Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon. 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 Margeret Stanley (born 6 September 1909), the actress Pamela Stanley [Pamela Stanley played Ophelia in Leslie Howard's ill-fated 1936 Broadway production of Hamlet (imdb|12163|Hamlet) ]
*Lyulph Henry Victor Owen Stanley (22 October 1915 – 23 June 1971), the 7th Baron
*Victoria Venetia Stanley (born 29 June 1917)

Stanley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford where obtained a BA in 1898. In 1902 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. In 1904 he became a London County Councillor and in 1906 became Liberal Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire near the family seat. Whilst an MP he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Postmaster General serving under Sydney Buxton. His sister, Venetia Stanley, was a close correspondent of the Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal party, H. H. Asquith.

In 1913 He was High Sheriff of Anglesey when he was appointed Governor of Victoria. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and took up his post on 23 February 1914. 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 Sheffield title. He died in August 1931 of a bacterial infection, actinomycosis. He was succeeded by his son Edward.

References

* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120059b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography - Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley]
* [http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/netheralderley.html A Scapbook of Cheshire Antiquities - Nether Alderley, The Stanley Family]