X-Nico

6 unusual facts about Earl of Derby


Battle of Evesham

In February, Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower.

County Borough of Bolton

They supported flags bearing the arms of the two families who held the Earldom of Derby and principal manors of Bolton: the Ferrers and Stanley families.

County Borough of Stockport

The vair pattern was from the arms of the Ferrers family, Earls of Derby.

Derby High School, Greater Manchester

The school's patron was the Earl of Derby, with the school's badge being based on the Earl's coat of arms.

Kearsley Power Station

The power station opened in 1929 by the Earl of Derby, was to become highly regarded within the industry due to its excellent record of thermal efficiency.

Manx pound

These issues of coins have the crest of the Stanley family, Lords of Mann, on the obverse (an eagle and child on a cap), together with the Stanley family motto, "Sans Changer".


1915 FA Cup Final

The cup was awarded by the Earl of Derby whose speech, largely drowned out by a noisy crowd of young supporters, noted that all present needed to join together and play "a sterner game for England".

Baron Crofton

He sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1840 to 1869 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the three Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and in Benjamin Disraeli's first government.

Baron Raglan

His second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

Blanche of Lancaster

However, through his marriage to Blanche, John of Gaunt became Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lincoln and Earl of Leicester (although Gaunt did not receive all of these titles until the death of Blanche's older sister, Maud, in 1362).

Carshalton

It was substantially laid out for the Earl of Derby nearly 250 years ago – in the 1770s – but its villa dates back further than that.

Earl of Longford

He was a Conservative politician and served under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1866 to 1868.

Earl of Verulam

He was a Tory politician and held minor office in the first two governments of the Earl of Derby.

George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington

He served under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1867 to 1868.

Inskip, Lancashire

It was built in 1848 and was financed by the Earl of Derby and Archdeacon Hornby.

Ipomoea simplex

The Earl of Derby presented Kew Gardens with a "rounded uncouth-looking tuber" in 1844, having acquired it from the Eastern Cape, and all were completely unprepared for the beauty of its flowers that appeared in July of 1845.

Les Jonquerets-de-Livet

During the Norman Conquest of England, a branch of the de Livet family followed the de Ferrers (later the Earls of Derby) to England, along with the Curzons (Notre-Dame-de-Courson) and the Baskervilles (Basqueville, now Bacqueville-en-Caux), who were also under-tenants of the old Ferrieres fiefdom in Normandy.

Municipal Borough of Stretford

The charter was formally presented by the Earl of Derby, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire at a Charter Day celebration held on 16 September.

Ndumbe Lobe Bell

In a letter to the Earl of Derby dated 30 September 1884, King Bell explained his reasons for accepting the German offer.

The Lancashire Electric Power Company

Its original power station was the Radcliffe Power Station which was opened by the Earl of Derby on 9 October 1905.

Walter Manny, 1st Baron Manny

Manny also took part in the campaigns of the Earl of Derby in Guyenne, being present at the battles of Bergerac and Auberoche.

Whitaker Wright

In 1890 Wright had purchased an estate named Lea Park between Godalming and Haslemere, Surrey, and the adjacent South Park Farm from the Earl of Derby, which included the Lordship of the Manor and control of Hindhead Common and the Devil's Punch Bowl.


see also

1st Duke of Lancaster

Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, (c. 1310 – 1361), also Earl of Derby, member of the English nobility

Alexander Radcliffe

He was later committed to the Tower of London by Parliament for assisting the Earl of Derby in the Siege of Manchester.

Battle of Bergerac

An Anglo-Gascon Army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac, leading to the loss of the town.

Jewish community of Worcester

In 1263, during the baronial revolt of Simon de Montfort, the rebel Robert Ferrers, earl of Derby led an attack on Worcester.

Lady Anne Stanley

Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven (1580 – 1647), daughter and heir of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby