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Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby · After John Jabez Edwin Mayall / William Holl, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

1799 – 1869 · aged 70

British politician (1799–1869)

Born
29 Mar 1799 · London
Died
23 Oct 1869 · Lancashire
Part ofKingdom of Great Britain1626 – 1838

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 81 years
  1. 29 Mar 1799BornBorn in London
  2. 1822 – 1826RoleMember of the 7th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  3. 1826 – 1830RoleMember of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  4. 1827 – 1828RoleUnder-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
  5. 1830RoleMember of the 9th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  6. 1831RoleMember of the 9th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  7. 1831 – 1832RoleMember of the 10th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  8. 1832 – 1834RoleMember of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  9. 1835 – 1837RoleMember of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  10. 1837 – 1841RoleMember of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  11. 1841 – 1844RoleMember of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  12. 1846 – 1868RoleLeader of the Conservative Party
  13. 1852RoleLeader of the House of Lords
  14. 1852RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  15. 1852 – 1869RoleChancellor of the University of Oxford
  16. 1858 – 1859RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  17. 1858 – 1859RoleLeader of the House of Lords
  18. 1866 – 1868RoleLeader of the House of Lords
  19. 1866 – 1868RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  20. 23 Oct 1869DiedDied in Lancashire

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1799 – 1869).

  1. 1812 – 1815War of 1812
  2. 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
  3. 1853 – 1856Crimean War
  4. 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857

Biography

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869), known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To date, he is the longest-serving leader of the Conservative Party (1846–68). He is one of only four British prime ministers to have three or more separate periods in office. However, his ministries each lasted less than two years and totalled three years and 280 days. Derby introduced the state education system in Ireland, and reformed Parliament.

Historian Frances Walsh has written that it was Derby:

who educated the party and acted as its strategist to pass the last great Whig measure, the 1867 Reform Act. It was his greatest achievement to create the modern Conservative Party in the framework of the Whig constitution, though it was Disraeli who laid claim to it.

Scholars long ignored his role but in the 21st century rank him highly among all British prime ministers.

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