Henry Edward John Stanley, 3d Baron Stanley and 2d Baron Eddisbury
1827–1903
Diplomatist and orientalist. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, but did not take a degree as he entered the Foreign Office in 1847. Held various diplomatic posts and travelled widely in the East, studying oriental languages. Succeeded his father as third Baron Stanley and second Baron Eddisbury in 1869.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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