Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

Also known as Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

British politician (1799–1869)

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Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, was a prominent British politician who served as Prime Minister three times during the mid-1800s and led the Conservative Party through a period of significant political change. He played an important role in shaping British politics during an era that included debates over free trade, electoral reform, and the expansion of the British Empire.

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Born: 1799
Died: 1869
Works: 11

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The morality of public men
Speech of Lord Stanley, February 9, 1849
Grey and Stanley
A letter to the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley
A letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Derby

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Type: Person
Origin: Jamaica
Active from: 1955-08-06

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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: