Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield

Who was Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield?

Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield KCMG, also 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 4th Baron Eddisbury, was an English nobleman and Governor of Victoria from 1914 to 1920.

Stanley was the second child and first son of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield and Mary Katherine Bell. On 29 August 1905 he married Margaret Evelyn Evans Gordon. They had five children:

Mary Katherine Adelaide Stanley

Edward John Stanley, the 6th Baron

Pamela Margaret Stanley, the actress Pamela Stanley

Lyulph Henry Victor Owen Stanley, the 7th Baron

Victoria Venetia Stanley

Stanley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford where obtained a BA in 1898. In 1902 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. In 1904 he became a London County Councillor and in 1906 became Liberal Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire near the family seat. Whilst an MP he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Postmaster General serving under Sydney Buxton. His sister, Venetia Stanley, was a close correspondent of the Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal party, H. H. Asquith.