Lucy (Smith) Stanley

Born [date unknown] in England

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Descendants

Died 5 Feb 1759 in England

Biography

Lucy Smith was the second and youngest daughter and co-heir of Hugh Smith, of Weald Hall, Essex (died 8 May 1745), and his wife Dorothy Barrett-Lennard,^[1]. Her date of birth at this stage is unknown (the date of 7 February 1759 originally entered as her birth date is actually the date she died).

She married on 17 March 1746/47 at Keith's Chapel in St George's, Hanover Square, London, James Stanley, 'Lord Strange', eldest son of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby, and his wife Elizabeth Hesketh. Lucy's dowry was £100,000, and also according to her father's will her husband had to take on the name of Smith. James by Act of Parliament assumed the name of Smith in addition to that of Stanley.^[2]

They had the following issue:

1. Hon. Elizabeth Stanley, born 1748, died 13 April 1796, married 28 July 1779, Rev. Thomas Horton, Vicar of Badsworth, Yorkshire;^[3]
2. Hon. Lucy Stanley, married 25 May 1772 by special licence at Knowesley, Geoffrey Hornby, later Reverend, Rector of Winwick, Lancashire;^[4]
3. Edward Smith-Stanley, born 12 September 1752, baptised at Preston, Lancashire, succeeded his grandfather as 12th Earl of Derby;^[5]
4. Hon. Thomas Stanley, born about 1753, educated Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Member of Parliament for Lancashire from 26 March 1776, also Army officer; Cornet in 16th Light Dragoons 1775, Captain 17th Light Dragoons 1776, Major in 79th Foot 1777. He accompanied his regiment to Jamaica in 1779 and died there that same year;^[6]
5. Hon. Harriet Stanley, married in June 1778, Sir Watts Horton, Baronet, of Chaderton in Lancashire;
6. Hon. James Stanley;
7. Hon. Louisa Stanley, born 1759, died 1769.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday, p. 217
2. ↑ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday, p. 217 & 218
3. ↑ Brydges, p. 101
4. ↑ Brydges, p. 101
5. ↑ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday, p. 218
6. ↑ Drummond, Mary M., (1964), 'Stanley, Hon. Thomas (?1753-79)' in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. by L. Namier & J. Brooke. Digitised on website The History of Parliament: British political, social & local history, (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org : viewed 19 June 2014)
7. ↑ Brydges, p. 101

• History of Parliament online: STANLEY (afterwards SMITH STANLEY), James, Lord Strange (1717-71)

Bibliography

• Brydges, Sir Egerton, (1812), Collins's Peerage of England: genealogical, biographical and historical, rev. ed. Vol. 3, London: F.C. and J. Rivington. Digitised by FamilySearch

• Cokayne, G.E., Gibbs, Hon. Vicary & Doubleday, H. Arthur, (eds.), (1916), The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 2nd ed. Vol. 4, London: St Catherine Press. Digitised by FamilySearch.

• Drummond, Mary M., (1964), 'Stanley, Hon. Thomas (?1753-79)' in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. by L. Namier & J. Brooke. Digitised on website The History of Parliament: British political, social & local history, (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org : viewed 19 June 2014)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Janice Hardin for starting this profile 15 December 2011