{"id":23222,"date":"2024-02-20T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=23222"},"modified":"2024-02-21T07:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T12:30:48","slug":"countess-of-derby-drops-by-transylvania-200-years-after-earl-of-derbys-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2024\/02\/countess-of-derby-drops-by-transylvania-200-years-after-earl-of-derbys-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Countess of Derby drops by Transylvania 200 years after Earl of Derby\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_4-730x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_4-730x461.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_4-350x221.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_4-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_4-810x511.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_4-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Countess of Derby visited Transylvania University on Saturday \u2014 200 years after the 14th Earl of Derby dropped by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is retracing the steps of Edward Geoffrey Stanley, who traveled throughout the United States before going on to serve three terms as prime minister of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never hung out with nobility before,&#8221; said Jamie Day, a Transylvania physics professor and curator of the Monroe Moosnick Medical and Science Museum. &#8220;She was very down to earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1-730x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1-730x467.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1-350x224.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1-280x180.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1-810x518.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/02\/transylvania_countess_1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Saturday&#8217;s tour included viewing Audubon&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Birds of America&#8221; elephant\u00a0folio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The countess, Caroline Stanley, is co-editor of a book on the earl, &#8220;A North American Tour Journal: 1824-1825,&#8221; due out next year. She joined scholars Andrew O&#8217;Shaughnessy, who wrote the introduction, and Peter O&#8217;Shaughnessy for private viewings of Transylvania&#8217;s Special Collections, including the Moosnick Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is based on travel notes found in the countess&#8217; manor, Knowsley Hall, during the pandemic. She is married to the 19th Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 14th Earl of Derby (pronounced \u201cDarby\u201d) spent eight months journeying from eastern Canada to various locales as far away as New Orleans. 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These included some items in the Moosnick collection and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gratzpark.org\/?page_id=127\">The Kitchen<\/a>&#8221; \u2014 a building that was part of Transylvania&#8217;s original campus across Third Street in what is now Gratz Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, they met President Brien Lewis, who gave them copies of John D. 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