Derby's health had been declining for some time and he finally resigned as Prime Minister in late February 1868 ; he would live for twenty months.

As in 1852 Derby's was a minority government, dependent on the division of its opponents for survival.

Between November 1858 and February 1859, Gladstone, on behalf of Lord Derby's government, was made Extraordinary Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands embarking via Vienna and Trieste on a twelve week mission to the southern Adriatic entrusted with complex challenges that had arisen in connection with the future of the British Protectorate of the Ionian islands.

Lord Robert Cecil was first elected to the House of Commons in 1854 and served as Secretary of State for India in Lord Derby's Conservative government from 1866 until his resignation in 1867 over its introduction of Benjamin Disraeli's Reform Bill that extended the suffrage to working-class men.

Derby's conduct during the Eastern Crisis was mysterious to many of his contemporaries and for some time thereafter.

The fact of the matter was that Derby's hope for peace with Russia led him ( and his wife ) to share Cabinet secrets with the Russian ambassador, Pyotr Shuvalov, in hopes of averting war with Russia.

He was a member of Lord Derby's cabinet in 1852 as Postmaster General and as Lord Privy Seal between 1858 and 1859.

In Lord Derby's first government in 1852 be became Lord Chancellor and was raised to the peerage as Baron St Leonards, of Slaugham in the County of Sussex.

During the All American Soapbox Derby's heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chevrolet was a sponsor and famous TV and movie stars made guest appearances, as many as 70, 000 people would gather in August to eat snow cones and cheer hundreds of youthful racer / builders ( boys only in early years ) ages 11 – 15 who were the champions of local races around the nation and from several foreign countries.

He was a Conservative politician and served in the Earl of Derby's second administration as Paymaster-General and President of the Board of Trade.

The relocation plan had only been unveiled some 18 months before the new stadium was opened-chairman Lionel Pickering had originally planned to boost Derby's stadium capacity by rebuilding it with a 26, 000-seat capacity.

" On 16 December 2009, Derby's campaign was rejected by the FA, along with Hull and Leicester.

It was created in 1852 for Sir Edward Sugden, Lord Chancellor in Lord Derby's 1852 administration.

The museum was originally started as the Derby Museum as it comprised the Earl of Derby's natural history collection.

The Station-Master was apparently in league with the enemy as they allowed him to take all his furniture etc to a place of safety on the veldt before starting to blow up the place ... On the following day we were marched off pass Rhenosterscene of the Derby's disaster to a position on De Wet's farm a distance of 9 miles.

He took the lead in the straight and won from Lord Derby's colt Bobsleigh in what was described as a " thrilling " finish.

The University of Derby was fully invested, and in 1998 welcomed a synthesis of efforts with the High Peak College of Further Education, Buxton on Harpur Hill – a synthesis to eventually be amalgamated as the Devonshire Campus of the University of Derby Buxton, Derby's second campus.

Additionally it hosted the Bay Bombers of the Roller Derby ; the Derby's world championship playoffs were held at the Cow Palace every fall beginning from 1959 through 1973, when the organization was disbanded.

Meanwhile, possibly due to Derby's connections, Hawkins was appointed assistant superintendent of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

In 1858 – 1859 he was Attorney General in Lord Derby's second administration.

Buckingham's political career was stagnant until 1866, when he was appointed to the Privy Council and became Lord Derby's Lord President of the Council.

The William Brown Library and Museum building was conceived as a replacement for the Derby Museum ( containing the Earl of Derby's natural history collection ) which then shared two rooms on the city's Duke Street with a library.

During the English Civil War in 1642, a battle was fought on Westhoughton Common between Lord Derby's Cavalier forces and Parliamentarians.

After the collapse of Lord Derby's minority government, the Whigs and Peelites formed a coalition under the Peelite leader Lord Aberdeen.

With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control.

In 1858 he entered Lord Derby's government as Secretary of State for the Colonies, thus serving alongside his old friend Disraeli.

* Lord Strange's Men ( later Derby's Men )

Lord Derby's minority Conservative administration passed a Reform Act in 1867, nearly doubling the electorate from 1, 430, 000 to 2, 470, 000 and the Liberal Party won the 1868 election.

Lord Derby's subsidiary titles are Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster ( created 1832 ), and Baron Stanley of Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster ( 1886 ).

Both Lord Derby's sons succeeded to the earldom.

It brought down Lord Derby's Tory ministry and enabled the leader of the Peelites Lord Aberdeen and Whigs to form a coalition government.

Under a one-year contract, he first stood at Lord Derby's stud in England.

**** Lord Derby's Scaly-tailed flying squirrel, Anomalurus derbianus

Disraeli's appreciation found an opportunity for displaying itself some years later, when in 1868 he invited him to be Lord Chancellor in the brief Conservative administration which followed Lord Derby's resignation of the party leadership.

He held his last ministerial office as Lord President of the Council, with a seat in the cabinet, in 1852, in the Earl of Derby's first administration.

He served as Lord Chancellor again in Derby's 1866 – 67 government.

Herries worked his way up in the Treasury and eventually became Secretary to the First Lord of the Treasury, Commissary-General to the Army, Paymaster of the Civil List, Secretary to the Treasury ( 1823 – 1827 ), Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Goderich's government ( 1827 – 1828 ), Master of the Mint under the Duke of Wellington ( 1828 – 1830 ), briefly President of the Board of Trade ( 1830 ), Secretary at War under Sir Robert Peel ( 1834 – 1835 ), and finally President of the Board of Control in Lord Derby's first government ( 1852 ).

He was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1835, and in 1852 he was made Solicitor General for Scotland in Lord Derby's first ministry, three months later becoming Lord Advocate, a post he held from May to December of that year.

He left office in 1859, when Derby's ministry fell.

Adderley's ministerial career began in 1858, when he was appointed President of the Board of Health and Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education in Lord Derby's short ministry.

His other television documentaries include: Bucking Mad, the story of an English rodeo rider and Full Circle: the Saving of Derby's Roundhouse, both broadcast by the BBC.

" He hopes to use the now abandoned warehouse as an exhibition of Derby's past, both paranormal and otherwise.