Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth
Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth CB TD DL JP was a Yorkshire land owner, magistrate and British Army Territorial officer who commanded the Yorkshire Hussars during World War I. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1924 Birthday Honours for services to agriculture.Personal life
He was born to John Greenwood and Louisa Elizabeth Barnardiston. His father built Swarcliffe Hall where the family resided, and his grandfather Frederick Greenwood was a noted Magistrate in West Yorkshire.
Stanyforth was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford he studied agricultural later becoming a President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. He was a noted breeder of shorthorn cattle, west highland bullocks and Jersey cattle.
He was a member of the West Riding Territorial Association and served in the Yorkshire Hussars. He obtained command of the Hussars in 1913 and was for a time in charge of the coastal defences at Scarborough.
His grandmother Sarah Staniforth was the daughter of Samuel Staniforth, former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and the sister of Rev. Thomas Staniforth of Storrs Hall. When Thomas died, Edwin assumed the name and arms of the family. This was carried out on 7 December 1887 by Royal Licence.
Stanyforth married his cousin Mary Evelyn Barnadiston in 1888 and had two children, a daughter and a son Ronald Thomas Stanyforth who would go onto become captain of the England cricket team. The family resided at Kirk Hammerton Hall.
