Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley 1904-1977

On 1st April 1904 Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley was born.

On 3rd February 1927 Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper [aged 26] and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley [aged 22] were married. He the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 9th Earl of Shaftesbury [aged 57] and Constance Grosvenor Countess of Shaftesbury [aged 51].

On 28th November 1934 Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper [aged 34] and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley [aged 30] were divorced after she began an affair with American actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr, who was named as co-respondent in the petition for divorce.

On 31st March 1937 [her former husband] Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper [aged 36] and Françoise Soulier were married. He the son of [her former father-in-law] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 9th Earl of Shaftesbury [aged 67] and [her former mother-in-law] Constance Grosvenor Countess of Shaftesbury [aged 61].

Before 18th January 1944 [her future husband] Edward Stanley 6th Baron Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Eddisbury [aged 36] and Victoria Audrey Chetwynd-Talbot [aged 33] were married.

On 18th January 1944 Edward Stanley 6th Baron Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Eddisbury [aged 36] and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley [aged 39] were married. She by marriage Baroness Stanley Alderley.

On 8th March 1947 [her former husband] Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper [aged 46] died.

In 1948 Edward Stanley 6th Baron Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Eddisbury [aged 40] and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley [aged 43] were divorced.

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On 29th June 1977 Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley [aged 73] died.