Oliver Stanley

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Oliver Frederick George Stanley , PC , MC (* 4. May 1896 in London , † 10. December 1950 in Sulhamstead , Berkshire ) was a British officer and politician of the Conservative Party , which between 1924 and his death in 1950 a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) and held numerous ministerial offices from 1933 to 1945.

Life

Family origin, officer and member of the House of Commons

Stanley was the third and youngest child of Edward George Villiers Stanley , which also lower house member and from 1901 to 1924 several times minister was, and in 1908 the title of 17th Earl of Derby inherited and thus until his death in 1948 the upper house ( House of Lords ) as Member belonged, as well as from his wife Lady Alice Maude Olivia Montagu, a daughter of William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester . His older sister Lady Victoria Alice Louise Stanley was married to the House of Commons and Junior Minister Neil Primrose for the first time and, after his death, to the long-time House of Commons Malcolm Bullock . His older brother Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley , became the youngest member of the House of Commons in 1917, to which he belonged until his death in 1938 and held several junior ministerial posts before he was Minister for the Dominions until his death in 1938.

After attending the prestigious Eton College, Oliver Stanley himself completed an officer training course and held the temporary rank of captain of the Royal Field Artillery . During the First World War he served as Major of the Lancashire Hussars and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) and the French Croix de guerre for his services . After the end of the war, he received his legal license as a barrister with the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) of Gray's Inn .

In the elections of October 29, 1924 , he was for the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this until July 5, 1945 constituency Westmorland . Immediately thereafter, between December 1924 and 1929, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Education Minister Lord Eustace Percy . In the first national government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald he held a junior ministerial post, between November 1931 and February 1933 as Parliamentary Undersecretary in the Ministry of the Interior (Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department) .

Minister, marriage and offspring

He then served in this government from February 22, 1933 to June 29, 1934 as Minister of Transport (Minister of Transport) and then between June 29, 1934 and June 7, 1935 as Minister of Labor (Minister of Labor) . He was, as such, on July 7, 1934, member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . Subsequently Stanley was in the second national government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin from June 7, 1935 to May 28, 1937 Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education) . He was then in the third national government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on May 28, 1937 Minister of Commerce (President of the Board of Trade ) and held this office until January 5, 1940 in the Chamberlain War Government . As part of a cabinet reshuffle he then took over on January 5, 1940 by Leslie Hore-Belisha the post of Minister of War (Secretary of State for War) , a position he held until May 11, 1940th After Great Britain entered the war, he was Colonel of Honor in the Manchester Regiment from 1940 to 1950 . On November 22, 1942 he replaced in the war government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury as Secretary of State for the Colonies . He also held this ministerial office in Churchill's interim government between May 23 and July 26, 1945.

In the election of July 5, 1945 Oliver Stanley was re-elected for the Conservative Tories as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Bristol West in this until his death on December 10, 1950 . In addition, he last held the office of Chancellor of the University of Liverpool University between 1949 and 1950 .

Oliver Stanley was married from November 4, 1920 until her death on June 20, 1942 to Lady Maureen Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, a daughter of the politician Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry and his wife Edith Helen Chaplin . This marriage of son Michael Charles Stanley emerged, among other things, in 1965 Vice Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lancashire was, and the daughter Kathryn Edith Helen Stanley, among others, from 1985 to 2002 Lady-in-Waiting of Queen Elizabeth II. Was and in 1995 was Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire . According to him, Stanley Iceland named in Antarctica.

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SURNAME Stanley, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanley, Oliver Frederick George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1950
Place of death Sulhamstead , Berkshire