| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of lower Tsitika River, SE of Port McNeill (municipality), Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°26'17"N, 126°32'20"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Derby Mountain adopted 2 May 1933 on 92L/7, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 3387, 1904 et seq, and on Jackson's 1931 survey. Form of name changed to Mount Derby 6 April 1950 on 92 NW (file N.1.33) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Probably named after the Earl of Derby, which would associate it with the surrounding Mounts Peel, Palmerston, Russell, etc. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869). British statesman and prime minister (1852, 1858-9, 1866-8), born at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, entered parliament as a Whig in 1828, and became chief-secretary for Ireland (1830), and colonial secretary (1833), when he carried the Act for the emancipation of West Indian slaves. In 1834 he withdrew from the Party, and soon after joined the Conservatives (subsequently party leader, 1846-68). He entered the House of Lords as a baronet in 1844, retired from the cabinet in 1845, when Peel decided to repeal the Corn Laws, and in 1846 headed the Protectionists in the Lords. In 1851 he succeeded his father as Earl of Derby. Premier on three occasions, his third administration passed the Reform Bill (1867). (www.biography.com) Source: included with note |