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Albert Henry Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, PC, TD (8 August 1874 – 4 November 1948) was managing director, then chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London and later chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board during the London Underground's greatest period of expansion.

He was born Albert Henry Knattriess in New Normanton, Derbyshire, England. His father worked as a coachbuilder for the Pullman Company and, in 1880, the family emigrated to Detroit in the United States and, in the mid-1890s, the family changed its name to "Stanley". At fourteen, Stanley began work at the Detroit Street Railways Company, a horse drawn tramway, and his managerial skills saw him become General Superintendent of the company when he was 20.

In 1906, Stanley was brought to London to become Managing Director of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) and began a forty-year career in charge of the London Underground and later all London transport leading it through its "Goldern Era". (Full article...)