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501: 1007: 494: 1248: 56: 365:, her grandson, feared her ridicule and described her as "an eighteenth century type, rationalistic and unimaginative, keen on enlightenment, and contemptuous of Victorian goody-goody priggery". "Grandmama Stanley at Dover Street", according to Russell, "had a considerable contempt for everything that she regarded as silly". She died at her home in 315:, and providing ÂŁ1,000 for the establishment of its first library, which was built in 1884 and called the Stanley Library. One of the few executive committee members who dared confront Davies, Lady Stanley vehemently opposed the construction of a chapel, and instead favoured improving staff salaries and equipment. In 1888, she helped found 306:
In early 1872 she was again invited to participate more formally in the administration of Girton, which she now accepted, and she joined the building subcommittee. The project, seen as daring and even scandalous, benefited from her social position; Lady Stanley considered "social position, good sense
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She proceeded to take part in the campaign whose aim was to secure the admission of women to the university local examinations. In 1867, she turned down an offer to become a member of the committee planning a women's university college, saying that "it is not liked to see my name before the public".
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Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (Argent on a bend Azure three stags’ heads cabossed Or a crescent for difference) impaling Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon (Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a fess between three crescents Sable 2nd & 3rd Argent a lion rampant Gules debruised by a
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My grandmother's outlook, throughout her life, was in some ways more Continental than English. She was always downright, free from prudery, and eighteenth-century rather than Victorian in her conversation. Her French and Italian were faultless, and she was passionately interested in
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The Baroness Stanley of Alderley had great influence in social and political circles. While he was Patronage Secretary, Edward Stanley was described by
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and married him on 7 October 1826. She became Baroness Eddisbury when her husband was created a peer in 1848. Two years later he succeeded as
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The death of her husband on 16 June 1869, however, left her more free to pursue her campaign. The same year, along with
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and her decision to defend, as she later put it, "the right of women to the highest culture hitherto reserved to men".
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of the college. She donated both money and time to Girton, standing in as its mistress during the illness of
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that had been partly stationed in Nova Scotia. In 1814, Henrietta and her family moved to
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Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England
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Biography of Lady Stanley of Alderley, including three portraits
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Coat of arms of Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley
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John Constantine (1837–1878), husband of hostess and politician
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and power of governing and conciliating" necessary for the
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British educational campaigner and hostess (1807–1895)
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Henrietta Maria Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley
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Photograph of Lady Stanley and her daughter Rosalind
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Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley
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with Mrs Stanley". She fell out with Prime Minister
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In the 1790s her father served as an officer in the
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Founders of colleges of the University of Cambridge
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(2005). 322: 259:Lady Stanley cultivated friendships with 250: 137: 1185:Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley 1063:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy 787:Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent 669:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 575:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 449:(1844–74), later Viscountess Amberley, 317:Sydenham High Junior and Senior Schools 206:, where she attended the receptions of 146:, Lady Stanley was the eldest child of 14: 1265: 1095:In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays 757: 561: 559: 557: 555: 553: 551: 549: 547: 545: 433:Algernon Charles Stanley (1843–1928), 246: 150:, and Henrietta Browne, the sister of 868: 782: 751: 699: 659: 457:proponent; mother of the philosopher 60:Lady Stanley of Alderley in 1860, by 1071:Free Thought and Official Propaganda 894: 776: 725: 470:and a radical temperance campaigner. 388:Alice Margaret (1828–1910), wife of 345:Women's Liberal Unionist Association 189:Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon 122:She was a founder and benefactor of 1253:Category: Works by Bertrand Russell 542: 343:and became closely associated with 301:London School of Medicine for Women 24: 499: 492: 208:Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern 148:Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon 25: 1339: 836: 402:, and a great-grandmother of the 1283:People from Halifax, Nova Scotia 1247: 1246: 1167:Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell 1005: 1293:English people of Irish descent 1179:John Russell, Viscount Amberley 1173:Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell 1111:A History of Western Philosophy 819: 805: 791:. University of Chicago Press. 154:. She was a descendant of both 1197:John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1161:John Russell, 4th Earl Russell 848:Girton College on Lady Stanley 653: 605: 528: 423:Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier 13: 1: 1318:English educational theorists 1023:The Principles of Mathematics 522: 1288:Canadian political hostesses 1119:My Philosophical Development 1103:Power: A New Social Analysis 693:UK public library membership 599:UK public library membership 566:Sutherland, Gillian (2004). 48:The Lady Stanley of Alderley 7: 1235:Professorship of Philosophy 735:. June 1889. 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Lady Stanley of Alderley
Baron Stanley of Alderley
The Right Honourable

Richard James Lane
Edward Stanley
education of women
Girton College
University of Cambridge
Bertrand Russell
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon
Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne
Charles II
Barbara Villiers
James II of England
Catherine Sedley
Jacobite
Maréchal de camp
Arthur Dillon
Old Pretender
Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon
"Catholic Irish Brigade"
Florence
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern
Young Pretender
Bertrand Russell
Italian unity
Edward Stanley

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