The 12th Earl of Derby was the title of the 18th-century English Nobleman Edward Smith-Stanley, and the Epsom Derby is a horse race he is credited with creating. A portrait of the man hangs in the ...

The names pay homage to English nobleman and stepfather of King Henry VII, Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, who was buried at Burscough Priory along with his mother and father, Sir Thomas ...

In a time when women could not own land or property, Lady Margaret ‘masterminded her own destiny’, becoming the ‘first recognised Queen Mother and a powerful woman in her own right,’ the podcast ...

John’s grandson Thomas—stepfather to Henry VII, the kingdom’s first Tudor monarch—received the title of Earl of ... After James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was executed in 1651, his ...