Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby

Tags: Prime Minister.

Edward Smith-Stanley redirects here; for other persons with that name see Edward Stanley Lord StanleyEdward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby KG PC (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869) was an English statesman three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley.

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active years end date

1852-12-19, 1859-06-11, 1868-02-27

active years start date

1852-02-23, 1858-02-20, 1866-06-28

alma mater

Christ Church Oxford

birth date

1799-03-29

birth place

England, Lancashire, Knowsley Hall

death date

1869-10-23

death place

England, Lancashire, Knowsley Hall

monarch

Queen Victoria

order in office

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

party

Conservative Party (UK)

religion

Church of England

successor

Benjamin Disraeli, George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Henry John Temple 3rd Viscount Palmerston