Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

1815 - 1881

Born

13 December 1815

Alderley Rectory, Cheshire, England

Died

18 July 1881

London

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
04/06/1863
Occupation
Clergyman, church of england
Relationships
Second son of Edward Stanley (FRS 1840) Bishop of Norwich, and his wife Catherine, daughter of Rev Oswald Leycester; nephew of Sir John Thomas Stanley (FRS 1790); brother of Owen Stanley (FRS 1842); married (1863, in Westminster Abbey) Lady Augusta Frederica Elizabeth Bruce, daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin