As Lord Strange, he took little part in the English Civil War. In France at the time of his father's condemnation in 1651, he petitioned unsuccessfully for the latter's life. After succeeding to the Earldom, he lived quietly at Bidston Hall, Cheshire, emerging to support Booth's unsuccessful rising in 1659. Attainted for so doing, he was restored the following year and the family's lands in the Isle of Man were returned to him. [citation needed]
He served as mayor of Liverpool, between 1666 and 1667.[1]
Marriage and children
Arms of Stanley impaling Kirkhoven, representing the marriage of the 8th Earl of Derby, St Paul's Church, Witherslack, Cumbria
William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (c. 1655–1702), elder son and heir, who married Lady Elizabeth Butler and had two daughters but no sons
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (1664–1736), younger son, who married Mary Morley and had one child, who died in infancy; James succeeded his elder brother in the earldom.
In 1660, Dorothea, who had her father's Netherlands nationality, was naturalised as English by Act of Parliament.[2]
