William Stanley (c. 1610–1678) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
Stanley was the son of Henry Stanley (died 1613), merchant of Chichester, Sussex and his wife Anne Madgweke, daughter of William Madgweke of Hampshire.
He was apprenticed to a grocer in Southampton in 1623, and became a pawnbroker, a shipowner, and a merchant trading with Newfoundland.
[1] Stanley died at the age of about 68 and was buried at Holy Rood church on 7 August 1678.
[1] Stanley married Averne Ticheon of Hursley, Hampshire on 8 October 1632.