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Edward Stanley
1779–1849
A lively churchman, naturalist, and popular writer, this nineteenth-century bishop was known for making science and everyday life feel approachable. His books and teaching brought warmth and curiosity to subjects that might otherwise have seemed severe.
2 Audiobooks
Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)
by Edward Stanley
Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial
by 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton, J. B. (John Benjamin) Smith, Edward Stanley
About the author
Born in London on January 1, 1779, Edward Stanley became an English clergyman who later served as Bishop of Norwich. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, was ordained in 1802, and spent many years as rector of Alderley in Cheshire before being appointed bishop in 1837.
Stanley was known not only for church leadership but also for his love of natural history and clear, engaging writing. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and his best-known book, A Familiar History of Birds, helped bring the study of nature to a wide general audience.
He also had a lasting family legacy in literature and church life: his son Arthur Penrhyn Stanley later became the well-known Dean of Westminster. Edward Stanley died in Norwich on September 6, 1849, remembered as a practical reformer, an accessible man of learning, and a writer who enjoyed sharing knowledge.