County Biographies (Shropshire) 1904, ed. John Dale
JP, CC, Peplow Hall, Market Drayton, Salop; son of the late Francis Stanier,
DL, JP, of Peplow, and Harcourt Manor, Salop; born at Pool Wyck, Windermere,
June 12th 1867; educated privately and at the Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester, whose diploma he holds; married, December 12th, 1894, Sarah
Constance, daughter of the Reverend B Gibbons, of Waresley House, Co. Worcester.
Mr Stanier is a Director of the North Stafford Railway Company. He has always
taken a great interest in the scientific and practical development of
Agriculture; is Correspondent for the Board of Agriculture and one of the
Governors of the Harper-Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Salop. He is a
Justice of the Peace for Shropshire, represents the Hodnet Division on the S
Salop County Council, and is a member of the Drayton Rural District Council
and Board of Guardians. He is a Churchman and a Conservative, being at
present Chairman of the Hodnet Conservative Association, and is also
Managing Trustee of the Hodnet Charities. Mr Stanier is a keen sportsman and
naturalist; he has had two years' big game shooting in various British
Colonies (many trophies of which may be seen at Peplow, including the
Hawkstone collection of stuffed birds and animals, which includes many
rare birds, as for instance the now extinct "Great Auk"), and at present his
favourite sports are Shooting, Salmon Fishing, Deer Stalking and Otter
Hunting. He is a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and a member of the
Wyndham Club, and Shropshire County Clubs.
Shropshire Biographical Part II 1907, ed. C H Mate
JP, CC, Peplow Hall, Market Drayton, Salop (above); also of Moor House, Staffordahire.
Born at Pool Wyck, Windermere, June 12th 1867; Educated privately and at the
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, whose diploma he holds.
Mr Stanier is a Director of the North Stafford Railway Company. He has always
taken a great interest in the scientific and practical development of
Agriculture; is Correspondent for the Board of Agriculture and one of the
Governors of the Harper-Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Salop. He is a
Justice of the Peace for Shropshire, represents the Hodnet Division on the
Salop County Council, and is a Member of the Drayton Rural District Council
and Board of Guardians. A Conservator of the Severn and a member of the
Licensing Committee. He is a Churchman and a Conservative, being at
present Chairman of the Newport Conservative Association, and is also
Managing Trustee of the Hodnet Charities. Is President of the Shropshire
Chamber of Agriculture, and on several occasions has acted as President of
other local Agriculture Societies. Is Lord of the Manor of Peplow and
High Hatton, and Patron of the livings of Stanton, Salop, and Knutton,
Staffs, and is one of the Lay-rectors of Stanton. Mr Stanier is a keen
sportsman and naturalist; he has had two years big game shooting in
various British Colonies (many trophies of which may be seen at Peplow),
and at present his favourite sports are salmon fishing, deer stalking,
and otter hunting. He is a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Although
now for many years resident in Shropshire, the family connection with the
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, has been long and intimate.
Three successive generations have accepted the Mayorality, that office
being held in the case of Mr Stanier's father for three consecutive years,
during which he was presented with the Freedom of the Borough. Amongst
other gifts to the Borough of Newcastle, the late Francis Stanier
projected the building of a ward in connection with the Isolation Hospital,
but death intervening, this scheme was carried out by Mr Beville Stanier, who
was afterwards presented by the Mayor and Corporation with a portrait
of his father, which he handed back, and which now adorns the walls of the
Council Chamber. Mr Stanier is a member of the Wyndham Club. Married,
December 12th 1894, Sarah Constance, daughter of the Rev. B Gibbons, of
Waresley House, County Worcester, and has issue Alexander Beville,
Philip Francis, Edward, and Dulce Constance.
CREST: In front of a griffin's head erased proper, three escallops or.
MOTTO: "Pietate fortior" Stronger by Piety
Who Was Who 1916 - 1928
1st Bt., cr 1917; MP (U) North Shropshire 1908-18, and Ludlow since
Dec 1918; DL, JP Shropshire; Deputy Chairman of North Staffs Railway; Deputy Chairman
Trent and Mersey Canal; Director Home Grown Sugar; M.R.A.C. of Cirencester; Born
12 June 1867; Married Constance, daughter of late Rev B Gibbons; three sons,
one daughter. CC 1902-12; Governer Harper Adams Agricultural College; Captain
in Territorial Reserve; Hon Secretary Shropshire Territorial Association, 1914-18;
Chairman of British Sugar Beet Growers Society; Director Farmers' Land Purchase Co.
Heir: Alexander Beville Gibbons; Born 1898. Addresses The Citadel,
Weston, Preston Brockhurst, nr Shrewsbury; 21 Buckingham Gate, SW1. Club
Carlton.
Burke's Peerage has his ancestory back through 13 generations, to John Stonhewer of Biddulph Staffordshire in 1560.
