t important works (1805-1875).

STANISLAS I., LECZINSKI, king of Poland, born in Lemberg; afterwards
sovereign of the Duchies of Bar and Lorraine; became the father-in-law of
Louis XV. (1677-1766).

STANLEY. ARTHUR PENRHYN, widely known as Dean Stanley, having been
dean of Westminster, born at Alderley, in Cheshire, son of the rector,
who became bishop of Norwich; was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold, and
afterwards at Balliol College, Oxford; took orders, and was for 12 years
tutor in his college; published his "Life of Dr. Arnold" in 1844, his
"Sinai and Palestine" in 1855, after a visit to the East; held a
professorship of Ecclesiastical History in Oxford for a time, and
published lectures on the Eastern Church, the Jewish Church, the
Athanasian Creed, and the Church of Scotland; accompanied the Prince of
Wales to the East in 1862, and became dean of Westminster next year in
succession to Trench; wrote "Historical Monuments of Westminster Abbey"
and "Christian Institutions"; he had been married to Lady Augusta Bruce,
and her death deeply affected him and accelerated his own; he was buried
beside her in Henry VII.'s chapel; he was an amiable man, an interesting
writer, and a broad churchman of very pronounced views (1815-1881).

STANLEY, HENRY MORTON, African explorer, born in Denbigh, Wales, in
humble circumstances, his parental name being Rowlands, he having assumed
the name of Stanley after that of his adopted father, Mr. Stanley, New
Orleans; served in the Confederate army; became a newspaper foreign
correspondent, to the _New York Herald_ at length; was summoned to go and
"find Livingstone"; after many an impediment found Livingstone on 10th
November 1871, and after staying with him, and accompanying him in
explorations, returned to England in August next year; in 1874 he set out
again at the head of an expedition, solved several problems, and returned
home; published "Congo and its Free State," "In Darkest Africa," &c.;
represents Lambeth, North, in Parliament, having been elected in 1895;
_b_. 1840.

STANNARY, a general term used to cover the tin mines of a specified
district, the miners themselves, and such customs and privileges as
appertain to the workers and the mines. In England the term is specially
associated with the stannaries of Devon and Cornwall, which by an Act of
Edward III. were conferred in perpetuity upon the Prince of Wales as Duke
of Cornwall, who holds the title of Lord Warden o