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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834 NRA: Stanley Edward Smith (1752-1834) 12th Earl of Derby DNB: Stanley, Edward Smith, twelfth earl of Derby (1752-1834), sportsman and patron of horse-racing LBT ID: LdDerby12 VIAF ID: 31555525 LOC ID: no90014556 | B/BAP: 1752-09-12 DIED: 1834-10-21 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
Grandson of the eleventh earl (d. 1776); educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,
he was a Whig MP for Lancashire, a friend of Charles James Fox, nephew of John Burgoyne,
and a committed sportsman. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Edward Smith Stanley, twelfth earl of Derby: The Earl of Derby to William Roscoe, [June? 1807] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) William Roscoe to the Earl of Derby, [June? 1807] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Earl of Derby to Thomas Creevey, 10 August 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) | |
