He was the eldest son and heir of the Seventeenth Earl of Derby, and was a close friend of the Duke of! Windsor, Born in the same year—1894—they were at Eton and Mag-dale College, Oxford, together. a On the outbreak of the Great War, they were both commissioned in the Guards, and received their frst promotion' within a few days of one another. In the course of the cameign, Lord Stanley was wounded, and, for conspicuous gallantry, he was' awarded the Military Cross, and the Italian Croce di Guerra, From 1916 to 1917, Lord Stanley was adjutant to the Household Battalion, He retired with the rank of Captain.
In 1917, he was elected for the old Abercromby Division of Liver-col, and he was such a popular candidate that his opponent polled, only 794 voles. He represented that division until 1918, when it was swept away in the Redistribution of Seats Bill. After 1922, Lord Stanley. represented the Fylde Division of Lancashire, a county with which his family had long and intimate as-
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