Edward John Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield and Stanley of Alderley
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Edward John Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield (either February 4 or October 9, 1907 – March 3, 1971) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield and Stanley of Alderley (September 14, 1875-August 22, 1931) and Margaret Evelyn Gordon (August 27, 1875-April 12, 1964).
The sixth of the Lords Sheffield and Stanley oversaw the loss of the family's ancestral estate at Alderley Park. With a fondness for gambling, wine and marriage, he had to pay for four divorce settlements, and death duties, even at pre-war levels, for both the fourth and fifth Lord Stanley's. When the mansion at Alderley Park was destroyed by fire in 1931 he moved into the former farmhouse. When he sold the estate in 1938 to the property developers Hambling Crundall and Co, many of his older tenants were forced to leave the village.
He had four wives:
- Lady Victoria Audrey Beatrice Chetwynd-Talbot (married March 3, 1932-divorced 1936)
- Sylvia Ashley (married January 18, 1944-divorced 1948)
- Therese Husson (married April 6, 1951-divorced 1957)
- Kathleen Margaret Crane (nee Wright) (married September 15, 1961-his death 1971).
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