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词条 Victor Stanley (Royal Navy officer)
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  1. Naval career

  2. Family

  3. References

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Admiral Sir Victor Albert Stanley KCB MVO (17 January 1867 – 9 June 1934) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet.

Naval career

Born the son of the Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, giving him the honorific "The Honourable", Stanley entered the navy in 1880, was appointed a Lieutenant in 1889, promoted to Commander in January 1901,[1] and Captain 1905. He became naval attaché to Russia in 1905, commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Essex in 1909 and Captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1912.[2] He served in World War I as commanding officer of the battleship HMS Erin from 1914 to 1917.[3] He became naval attaché in the British delegation to Washington D. C. in 1918, Second-in-Command of the 1st Battle Squadron in 1919 and Vice Admiral Commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1924. He was promoted to full admiral on 2 March 1926,[4] before retiring the same year.[5]

He stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party in Blackpool in the 1923 General Election.[6]

{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 1923: Blackpool[6]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Hugh Mowbray Meyler
|votes = 22,264
|percentage = 53.7
|change = +3.9
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Unionist Party (UK)
|candidate = Hon. Victor Albert Stanley
|votes = 19,192
|percentage = 46.3
|change = -3.9
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 3,072
|percentage = 7.4
|change = 7.8
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 84.8
|change = +6.5
}}{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|loser = Unionist Party (UK)
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Family

He married in 1896 Canadian Annie Bickerton Pooley, daughter of Hon. C. E. Pooley, K.C., of British Columbia.[7]

References

1. ^{{London Gazette |issue=27263 |date=4 January 1901 |page=82 }}
2. ^Naval and Military Intelligence, The Times, 8 July 1912
3. ^The Navy List, October 1915
4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=33139|page=1650| date=5 March 1926}}
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |title=Senior Royal Navy Appointments |access-date=15 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |archive-date=15 March 2012 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
6. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, FWS Craig
7. ^{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/323 |page=323}}
{{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{s-bef | before=Sir William Goodenough}}{{s-ttl | title=Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Fleet | years=1924–1926}}{{s-aft | after=Sir Rudolph Bentinck}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanley, Victor}}

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