Guide to the Papers of the Stanley Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1832-1893

Summary

Collection number:

M463

Creator:

Stanley (Family)

Extent:

97 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

For example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

The material filmed by the Australia Joint Copying Project includes:

Miscellaneous typescript notes on Capt. Owen Stanley collected by Adelaide Lubbock for her book Owen Stanley, including a biographical sketch and chronology of his life, and a photograph of his grave at Sydney with notes on his voyages 1837-1850, references collected from various published sources and a copy of the Stanley Family tree.

Correspondence of the Stanley Family 1837-1850 containing some original letters, some handwritten copies and typescript copies of all letters. A major part of the correspondence consists of letters between Owen Stanley and his father, Bishop Edward Stanley. There are also letters from Owen Stanley to other members of the Stanley Family. Also included are two letters from Owen Stanley to Dr J. Thomson 1846, three letters from Dr Thomson to his wife 1849-1850, and letters from Owen Stanley to C.J. Tyers 1847-1849. With the correspondence for 1849 is a manuscript copy of Owen Stanley's account of the fifth cruise of HMS Rattlesnake 3 June-2 October 1849, and a continuation of this account addressed to his sister Mary, 16 October 1849-January 1850. There are also typescript extracts from Thomas Huxley's diary of the fifth voyage of the Rattlesnake 1849-1850. It includes several references to Stanley interspersed with comments by Adelaide Lubbock.

Correspondence of Charles Stanley 1832-1849 with his family, especially his sister Catherine Stanley. They relate chiefly to his voyage to Tasmania on the Windermere and to his life in Tasmania. With this correspondence are miscellaneous sketches, maps and plans done by Stanley, some of which relate to his voyage to Tasmania.

Biographical / Historical:

Edward Stanley (1779-1849) was the son of Sir John Stanley, 6th Baronet, and the brother of John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley. He was the rector of Alderley, Cheshire, from 1805 to 1837 and the Bishop of Norwich from 1837 until his death. He married Catherine (Kitty) Leycester and they had five children: Owen, Mary, Arthur, Catherine and Charles.

Owen Stanley (1811-1850), the eldest son of Edward and Catherine Stanley, was educated at Charterhouse and entered the Royal Naval College in 1825. He became a midshipman in 1826 and served for four years on HMS Ganges on the South American Station. In 1831 he was commissioned lieutenant and served on HMS Belvidera in the Mediterranean and on HMS Terror on an expedition to the Arctic. In 1838 he was given command of the brig Britomart, which was mostly engaged on surveying in the East Indies and on the north coast of Australia. He was in New Zealand waters in 1840 and, at the request of the governor, negotiated with the French commandant at Arakoa. Stanley was promoted to the rank of captain in 1844. In 1846 he was given command of another surveying ship, HMS Rattlesnake, which spent three years surveying the northern coasts of Australia, the Torres Strait, the southern coast of New Guinea and the Louisiade Islands. He died in March 1850, shortly after the ship returned to Sydney.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881), the second son of Edward and Catherine Stanley, was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1839. His biography of the headmaster Thomas Arnold was published in 1844. In 1856 he was appointed Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford. In 1864 Stanley became Dean of Westminster and held the post for the rest of his life.

Charles Edward Stanley (1819-1849), the youngest son of Edward and Catherine Stanley, was educated at Rugby and enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1836. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant in 1838 and captain in 1846. He served for five years in the Ionian Islands and worked on the Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales. He married Eliza Clayton in 1846. In the same year he was appointed private secretary to Sir William Denison, the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. Stanley and his wife left England with Sir William and Lady Denison in October 1846 and arrived in Hobart in January 1847. In addition to his official duties, he was active in the affairs of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land and other local institutions. He died suddenly in August 1849. Eliza Stanley returned to England in 1850 and died in 1901.

(Mary Katherine) Adelaide Stanley (1906-1981) was the daughter of Sir Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley, who was the Governor of Victoria in 1913-1920. She married Maurice Lubbock 1n 1926. She was the author of Australian roundabout (1963), Owen Stanley R.N. 1811-1850, Captain of the Rattlesnake (1968) and People in glasshouses: growing up at Government House (1977).

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2239204] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, Duke street, Chester, England.

Collection Reference DSA 1.For further information see Cheshire Record Office (http://archive.cheshire.gov.uk/CalmView/default.aspx).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

For example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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