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Stanhope, Philip Henry
Person · 1805-1875

Philip Henry Stanhope, styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855, was an English antiquarian and Tory politician
Staniford, Albert
Person · 1894-1917

Gardener's Boy at ZSL London Zoo. Killed in 1917
Stanley, Edward Smith
Stanley, Edward Smith
Person · 1775-1851

Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby was a politician, peer, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist. He was the patron of the writer Edward Lear.

In 1834 he succeeded his father as 13th Earl of Derby and withdrew from politics, instead concentrating on his natural history collection at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. He had a large collection of living animals; at his death there were 1,272 birds and 345 mammals at Knowsley, shipped to England by explorers such as Joseph Burke. From 1828 to 1833 he was President of the Linnean Society. Several species were named after him. He was President of the Zoological Society 1831-1851.
Stanley, Henry Edward John
Person · 1827-1903

Henry Edward John Stanley, also known as Abdul Rahman Stanley, was a British nobleman and historian who translated The First Voyage Round the World by Magellan and other works from the Age of Discovery. A convert to Island, in 1869 Lord Stanley became the first Muslim member of the House of Lords