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Sir Arthur Stanley<br />
1934-1946<br />
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Sir Arthur Stanley was a member of the Standing Commission between 1934 and 1938,<br />
serving as its Chairman from 1938 till 1946, when he retired due to health issues. Count<br />
Folke Bernadotte was chosen to step in as Chairman between 1946 and 1948. By the time<br />
Arthur Stanley became chairman of the International Council (previous name of the Standing<br />
Commission), he had spent a professional lifetime as a philanthropist, politician and a senior<br />
member of the British Red Cross Society. His early professional life was spent as a diplomat<br />
in Egypt. From 1898 to 1918 he was a Conservative Member of Parliament.<br />
Arthur Stanley began his Red Cross career in 1905 and from 1914 he was appointed<br />
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Red Cross Society (BRCS), a post he held<br />
for 29 years. Throughout the First World War he was also Chairman of the Joint War<br />
Committee of the BRCS and the Order of St John of Jerusalem which provided joint services<br />
14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Arthur_Stanley.jpg can also use picture from:<br />
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw72248/Sir-Arthur-Stanley<br />
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