Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869)

Scholar, orator, and prime minister. Whig MP for North Lancashire, 1832–44. Chief secretary for Ireland, 1830–3. Colonial secretary, 1833–4 and 1841–5. Conservative prime minister, 1852, 1858–9, 1866–8. Appointed chancellor of Oxford University, 1852. Supported gradual parliamentary reform.