Sir Edmond Stanley SL (1760–1843) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras.
He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1773, aged thirteen years old, was a scholar in 1777 and graduated B.A.
The marriage caused a considerable scandal as the couple eloped to Gretna Green when the bride was only 14; the groom, a widower, was 29.
He voted with the government against a proposal for an enquiry into the causes of the 1798 Rising, and (again with the Administration) in favour of the Act of Union 1800 in 1799 and 1800 which dissolved and abolished the Parliament of Ireland.
[5] At the same time, Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, was the first registrar of the Supreme Court.
Stanley left Penang in December 1816 on being transferred to the Madras Presidency in 1817 as puisne judge.