STANLEY, James (1664-1736) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 3 July 1664, 8th but 3rd surv. s. Charles Stanley, 8th earl of Derby, and Dorothea Helena (d. 6 Apr. 1703), da. of Jan van den Kerckhove, Ld. of Heenvliet [Dutch]; bro. of Charles Zedenno^‡ and William Richard Stanley, 9th earl of Derby. educ. St Paul's Sch. Reg. of St Paul's School, 282. m. Feb. 1705 (with £50,000-60,000) Add. 70022, ff. 44-45; HMC Kenyon, 434. Mary (1667-1752), da. and h. of Sir William Morley^‡, of Halnaker, Suss., 1s. d.v.p. Stanley, House of Stanley (1998), 203-4; Lancs. RO, DDK 15/28. suc. bro. 5 Nov. 1702 as Ld. of Man; gt.-niece 8 Aug. 1732 as Bar. Strange. d. 1 Feb. 1736; will 20 Dec. 1735, pr. 19 Feb. 1736. TNA, PROB 11/675; Lancs. RO, DDK 20/17.

Offices Held

Groom of bedchamber 1689 – 1702; chan., duchy of Lancaster 1706 – 10; PC 10 June 1706 – d.; capt., yeomen of gd. 1715 – 23.

Ranger, Quernmore, Mierscough, Amounderness, Bleasdale, Wyersdale (the ‘five forests’), Lancs. 1694 – 1710, Furness, Lancs. 1702–d.; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders, ed. Somerville, 135, 144. ld. lt., Lancs. 1702 – 10, 1714 – d.; custos rot., Lancs. 1702 – 10, 1714–d.; HMC Kenyon, 435–36. v.-adm., Lancs. and Cheshire 1702 – 12; chamb., cty palatine of Chester 1702 – d.; mayor, Liverpool 1707 – 08, 1734 – 35.

Capt., earl of Pembroke's regt. of ft. (Dutch establishment) 1686 – 89, 1st Ft. Gds. 1689 – 92; col., 16th regt. of ft. 1692 – 1705; brig.-gen. 1702 – 04; maj.-gen. 1704 – 05.

Parlimentarian

STANLEY, Hon. James (1664-1736), of Knowsley, Lancs.

Likenesses

etching by P. Pelham, aft. Hamlet Winstanley, 1725-6, NPG D20121.

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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