DERBY, EARLDOM OF

Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl, 17991869, strong advocate of great Reform Bill; chief secretary for Ireland, 1830; from 1834 Conservative; succeeded to earldom, 1851; secretary of state for colonies, 1833-4; prime minister, 1852, 1858, and 1866; vigorous opponent of disestablishment of Irish Church; good cla ical scholar; pub. translation of Iliad; fine orator, His son, Edward Henry, 15th Earl, 1826-93, secretary for colonies, 1858, 1882-5; secretary of state for India, 1858-9; foreign affairs, 1866-8, 1874-8. Frederick Arthur, 16th Earl, 1841-1908, brother, secretary of state for colonies, 1885-6; president of Board of Trade, 1886-8; gov.-gen. of Canada, 1888-93; chancellor of Univ. of Oxford. Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl, 1865, present earl, suceceded his father; fought in S. Africa; eral of recruiting, 1915, ‘Derby scheme’; under-secretary and afterwards secretary for war, 1916-18; Brit. amba ador to Paris, April 1918. Secretary for war in A. Bonar Law Oabinet, 1922.