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On 1st April 1904 Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley was born.
On 3rd February 1927 Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper (age 26) and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley (age 22) were married. He the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (age 57) and Constance Grosvenor Countess of Shaftesbury (age 51).
On 28th November 1934 Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper (age 34) and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley (age 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 (age 36) and Françoise Soulier were married. He the son of [her former father-in-law] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (age 67) and [her former mother-in-law] Constance Grosvenor Countess of Shaftesbury (age 61).
Before 18th January 1944 [her future husband] Edward Stanley 6th Baron Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Eddisbury (age 36) and Victoria Audrey Chetwynd-Talbot (age 33) were married.
On 18th January 1944 Edward Stanley 6th Baron Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Eddisbury (age 36) and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley (age 39) were married. She by marriage Baroness Stanley Alderley.
On 8th March 1947 [her former husband] Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper (age 46) died.
In 1948 Edward Stanley 6th Baron Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Eddisbury (age 40) and Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley (age 43) were divorced.
On 3rd March 1971 [her former husband] Edward Stanley 6th Baron Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield, 5th Baron Eddisbury (age 63) died. His brother [her former brother-in-law] Lyulph (age 55) succeeded 7th Baron Stanley Alderley, 7th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon in Roscommon, 6th Baron Eddisbury of Winnington in Cheshire, 13th Baronet Stanley of Alderley in Cheshire.
On 29th June 1977 Sylvia Hawkes Baroness Stanley (age 73) died.