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{{Short description|British nobleman}}
{{other people|Arthur Stanley}}
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| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Lord Stanley of Alderley
| honorific-suffix    = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}
| image               = Arthur Stanley.jpg
| order               = 14th
| office              = Governor of Victoria
| term_start          = 23 February 1914
| term_end            = 30 January 1920
| monarch             = [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]
| predecessor         = [[Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet]]
| successor           = [[George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke|Earl of Stradbroke]]
| constituency        =
| office1             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br/>for [[Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Eddisbury]]
| term_start1         = 8 February 1906
| term_end1           = 10 February 1910
| predecessor1        = [[Henry James Tollemache]]
| successor1          = [[Harry Barnston]]
| office2             = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br/>{{small|[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]}}
| term_start2         = 18 March 1925
| term_end2           = 22 August 1931<br/>{{small|[[Hereditary peer|Hereditary Peerage]]}}
| predecessor2        = [[Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley|The 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley]]
| successor2          = [[Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley|The 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=yes|1875|9|14}}
| birth_place         = [[London]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|1931|8|22|1875|10|14}}
| death_place         = London, England
| nationality         = British
| father              = [[Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Margaret Evelyn Stanley]]|29 August 1905}}
| education           = [[Eton College]]
| alma_mater          = [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
| relations           = [[Venetia Stanley (1887–1948)|Venetia Stanley]] (sister)<br/>{{nowrap|[[Lowthian Bell]] (maternal grandfather)}}
| children            = [[Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley|Edward Stanley]]<br/>[[Pamela Stanley]]
| module              = {{infobox military person
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| allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch = {{army|United Kingdom}}
| rank = [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]]
| unit = Royal Anglesey Engineers
| battles = [[Second Boer War]]
}}
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'''Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} (14 September 1875 – 22 August 1931), also 5th [[Baron Sheffield]] and 4th [[Baron Eddisbury]], was an English [[nobility|nobleman]] and [[Governors of Victoria|Governor of Victoria]] from 1914 to 1920.
==Early life and family==
Stanley was the second child and first son of [[Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley|Edward Lyulph Stanley]], [[Baron Stanley of Alderley|4th Baron Stanley]] and Mary Katherine Bell. On 29 August 1905 he married [[Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon]]. They had five children:
*Mary Katherine Adelaide Stanley (30 May 1906 – 1981)
*[[Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley|Edward John Stanley]] (9 October 1907 – 3 March 1971), the [[Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley|6th Baron]]
*[[Pamela Stanley|Pamela Margaret Stanley]] (6 September 1909 – 30 June 1991), the actress Pamela Stanley<ref>Pamela Stanley played Ophelia in [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]]'s ill-fated 1936 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of [[Hamlet]] ({{IMDb name|12163|Hamlet}})</ref>
*[[Lyulph Stanley, 7th Baron Sheffield|Lyulph Henry Victor Owen Stanley]] (22 October 1915 – 23 June 1971), the [[Lyulph Stanley, 7th Baron Sheffield|7th Baron]]
*Victoria Venetia Stanley, the actress "Tordie" Woods (29 June 1917 – 2007)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/19/obituaries.mainsection|title = Obituary: 'Tordie' Woods|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 19 February 2007}}</ref>
==Political career==
Stanley was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]], [[University of Oxford]], where obtained a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1898. In 1902 he was [[call to the bar|called to the bar]] at the [[Inner Temple]]. In 1904 he became a [[London County Council]]lor and in 1906 became [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] Member of Parliament for [[Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Eddisbury]] in Cheshire near the family seat. Whilst an MP he was [[Parliamentary Secretary]] to the [[Postmaster General of the United Kingdom|Postmaster General]] serving under [[Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton|Sydney Buxton]]. His sister, [[Venetia Stanley (1887–1948)|Venetia Stanley]], was a close correspondent of the Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal party, [[H. H. Asquith]].
Stanley had been commissioned an officer in the Royal Anglesey Engineers [[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]] in May 1900, and saw active service in South Africa during the [[Second Boer War]]. He was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 6 December 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27501 |page=8443 |date=5 December 1902 }}</ref>
In 1913 he was serving as [[High Sheriff of Anglesey]] when he was appointed [[Governor of Victoria]]. He was made a [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] and took up his post on 23 February 1914. He served a five-year term and an additional year until relinquishing the post on 30 January 1920, although he had returned to Britain the previous year due to ill health. In the [[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923]] General election he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for [[Knutsford (UK Parliament constituency)|Knutsford]], losing by 80 votes to [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]], [[Ernest Makins|Sir Ernest Makins]]. From 1925 to 1928 he was Chairman of the [[Royal Colonial Institute]] and of the [[East Africa Joint Committee]].
In 1925 he succeeded his father to the three baronies and was known by the Stanley title. He died in August 1931 of a bacterial infection, [[actinomycosis]]. He was succeeded by his son Edward.
In his capacity as former Governor of Victoria, he attended the Covent Garden farewell of the Australian soprano [[Nellie Melba]], and made a speech thanking her for her artistry and war-work. HMV recorded several excerpts of the evening, including Lord Stanley's speech, all of which can be heard on CD today.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jun/09/archive-melbas-farewell-at-covent-garden-1926|title = From the archive, 9 June 1926: Melba's farewell at Covent Garden|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 9 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Jun04/Melba_Naxos.htm|title = Nellie Melba; the Hayes and London Recordings 1921-26 Naxos 8.110780 &#91;JW&#93;: Classical CD Reviews- June 2004 MusicWeb(UK)}}</ref>
==Arms==
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|image={{center|[[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|150px]] [[File:Arms of Stanley, Baron Stanley of Alderley.svg|180px]]}}
|escutcheon = Argent, on a bend azure, three bucks' heads cabossed or, a crescent for difference.
|crest = On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an eagle with wings expanded or preying upon an infant proper, swaddled gules, handed argent.
|supporters = Dexter, a stag or, gorged with a ducal crown, line reflexed over the back, and charged on the shoulder with a mullet azure; sinister, a lion reguardant proper, gorged with a plain collar argent charged withthree escallops gules.
|motto = Sans Changer "Without Changing"<ref>{{cite book |title=Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003 |date=2003 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |pages=1511|url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeerageb0000unse_r0m8/page/1510/mode/2up?q=Alderley}}</ref>}}
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | hon-arthur-stanley | Arthur Stanley }}
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120059b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography – Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley]
* [http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/netheralderley.html A Scrapbook of Cheshire Antiquities – Nether Alderley, The Stanley Family]
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| title  = Member of Parliament for [[Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Eddisbury]]
| years  = [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906]]–[[January 1910 United Kingdom general election|1910]]
| before = [[Henry James Tollemache]]
| after  = [[Harry Barnston]]
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{{succession box | title=[[Baron Sheffield]] | before=[[Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley|Edward Stanley]] | after=[[Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley|Edward Stanley]] | years=1925–1931 }}
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