Thomas Stanley

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Politicians

Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley (c. 1400–1459), English politician
Thomas Stanley (15th century MP), MP for Lancashire, 1433
Thomas Stanley (died 1576), Sheriff and MP for Lancashire, 1571
Thomas Stanley (died 1571), MP for Liverpool, 1547, and Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency), 1558
Thomas Stanley (died 1591), MP for Cheshire, 1571
Thomas Stanley (MP for Maidstone) (1581–1669), MP for Maidstone, 1624 and 1625
Thomas Stanley of Grangegorman (died 1674), knighted by Henry Cromwell in 1659
Sir Thomas Stanley, 4th Baronet (1670–1714), British MP for Preston, 1695–1698
Thomas Stanley (1753–1779), MP for Lancashire, 1776–1779
Thomas Stanley (1749–1816), MP for Lancashire, 1780–1812
Thomas B. Stanley (1890–1970), Governor of Virginia, 1954–1958
Thomas M. Stanley, American politician in the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, titular King of Mann, KG, of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire, was a Privy Councillor, Comptroller of the Royal Household, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland (1431–36), Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, Constable & Justice of Chester, Chamberlain of North Wales, Lord Chamberlain (1455), and from 15 January 1456 was summoned by Writ to Parliament as Lord Stanley.

Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament, traditionally known as Knights of the Shire until 1832.

Sir Thomas Stanley (1532/33–1576), of Winwick, Lancashire and Tong, Shropshire, was an English politician.

Others

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435–1504), English aristocrat
Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby (c. 1470–1521), English aristocrat
Thomas Stanley (bishop) (1510–1568), Bishop of Sodor and Man
Thomas Stanley (Royal Mint) (died 1571), English officer of the Mint
Thomas Stanley (author) (1625–1678), English author and translator
Thomas J. Stanley (1944–2015), American author
Thomas E. Stanley, a Dallas-based American architect

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby English nobleman, titular King of Mann and stepfather to King Henry VII of England

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG was an English nobleman and politician. He was a titular King of Mann, and stepfather to King Henry VII of England. He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill.

Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby English noble

Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby was an English nobleman, politician, and peer.

Thomas Stanley was a sixteenth-century, English Reformation-era Bishop of Sodor and Man.

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