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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}
{{short description|British judge in India}}
{{Infobox person
| name = John Stanley
| image = Chief Justice Sir John Stanley.png
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1846|11|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Armagh]], Ulster
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|12|07|1846|11|22|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| resting_place = [[East Sheen Cemetery]]
| occupation = Jurist
| spouse = Lady Anne Stanley
| children =
| relatives =
| awards =
| education = {{Plainlist|
* [[The Royal School, Armagh]]
* [[Trinity College Dublin]]
}}
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}}

'''Sir John Stanley, Kt., K.C.I.E.''' (22 November 1846 – 7 December 1931)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001542/19311208/157/0006|title=Obituary - Sir John Stanley CBE KCIE|date=8 December 1931|work=[[Northern Whig]]|access-date=12 February 2019|issue=38461|page=6|url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> was a [[Chief Justice]] of the [[North-Western Provinces]] in [[British India]] at the High Court of Allahabad.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.thebrassbuddha.net/stanley/?p=269 |title=Departure of Sir John Stanley |newspaper=[[Newry Reporter]] |date=1911-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901182523/http://www.thebrassbuddha.net/stanley/?p=269 |archive-date=2018-09-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was born in [[Armagh]]<ref name=":0" /> to the Stanley family of [[Derryhale]], [[County Armagh]], [[Ulster]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebrassbuddha.net/stanley/?tag=derryhale-stanley-family|title=The Stanleys of Derryhale}}</ref> He was educated at [[The Royal School, Armagh]] and at [[Trinity College Dublin]].<ref name=":0" />
On his retirement from Allahabad, the ''Allahabad Pioneer'' newspaper reported:<blockquote>As a judge Sir John Stanley was one of the hardest workers the Allahabad Court had ever had. A trained lawyer quick to form and to formulate his conclusions, his unfailing sincerity and the zeal with which he strove to reduce, as far as might be, the law's delays, were recognized on all hands; and with the leaders of the Bar he was on the best of terms. Sir John Stanley's crowning achievement had been the extraction from a somewhat reluctant Government of an undertaking to construct a new High Court building.</blockquote><blockquote>Last month he had the pleasure of laying the foundation stone of the new building, whose erection will for ever lay the spectre of a transfer of the Court to Lucknow, which has for long haunted the imagination of the Hallabad [sic] Bar and public. Many a good cause will have reason before long to feel the loss of Sir John and Lady Stanley; but today it is for a host of private friends to realise the loss they are sustaining in the departure of the high-minded lady and gentleman who have so worthily played their Indian part.</blockquote>He was [[District Grand Master]] of [[Bengal]] at the [[District Grand Lodge of Bengal]] from 1908 to 1911.<ref name=":0" />

He retired to [[London]], as was normal for luminaries of the British Raj, and is buried in [[East Sheen Cemetery]] alongside his wife, Lady Anne Stanley (d. 1 May 1946).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebrassbuddha.net/stanley/?p=278 |title=The grave of Sir John and Lady Annie Stanley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901182512/http://www.thebrassbuddha.net/stanley/?p=278 |archive-date=2018-09-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Sir & Lady John Stanley, East Sheen Cemetery, London.jpg|thumb|Sir & Lady John Stanley, East Sheen Cemetery, London]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite TIWW |article=Stanley, Sir John |page=237 }}

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