Family and Education
b. c. 1608, 2nd s. of William Stanley, 6th earl of Derby (d.1642) and Elizabeth, da. of Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford; bro. of James, Lord Strange*.Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxviii), 283. educ. privately; travelled abroad (France, Italy, Low Countries) 1623-5. APC, 1623-5, p. 124. m. 1627, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Arthur Gorges† of Chelsea, 3s. (1 d.v.p.); Vis. Lancs. 283. cr. KB 1 Feb. 1626. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 161. d. 3 Jan. 1633. LMA, microfilm X026/012, f. 40.
Offices Held

Freeman, Preston, Lancs. by 1622, Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 75. Liverpool, Lancs. 1625. G. Chandler, Liverpool under Jas. I, 298.

?Gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary. LC3/1, unfol.

Main residences: Ormskirk, Lancs.; Chelsea, Mdx.
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Commons 1604-1629
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STANLEY, Robert (c.1608-1633)

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