The Stanley family included Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-81), Dean of Westminster. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Stanley family papers, mainly poems by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.
The papers were purchased from Bertram Dobell, bookseller, in 1908.
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Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, nos. 34067-70.
Poetry
Stanley | Arthur Penrhyn | 1815-1881 | Dean of Westminster
Stanley | family | Barons Stanley of Alderley | Alderley
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