Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
1775–1851
Politician and naturalist. Whig MP for Preston, 1796–1812; Lancashire, 1812–32. President of the Linnean Society of London, 1828–34. President of the Zoological Society of London, 1831–51. Formed a private menagerie at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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