Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley
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About Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Lived 1907 – 1971 (aged 63). Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley was a British.
Edward John Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley, and 5th Baron Eddisbury (9 October 1907 – 3 March 1971), was a British peer.
He was the son of the Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1875–1931) and Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon (1875–1964). He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
Lord Stanley oversaw the loss of the family's ancestral estate at Alderley Park. With a fondness for gambling, wine and marriage, he had to pay for four divorce settlements, and death duties, even at pre-war levels, for both the 4th and 5th Barons. When the mansion at Alderley Park was destroyed by fire in 1931 he moved into the former farmhouse. When he sold the estate in 1938 to the property developers Hambling Crundall and Co Ltd., many of his older tenants were forced to leave the village.
He had four wives:
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British Baron (1907-1971)
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Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley was born on 9 October 1907.
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Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley died on 3 March 1971.
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