Stanton was commissioned as
second lieutenant in the
Royal Engineers on 19 December 1844. He was appointed
Consul-General in
Warsaw,
Poland on 7 December 1860, Agent and Consul-General in
Egypt on 15 May 1865, and
Chargé d'Affaires to the
King of Bavaria on 10 May 1876. During his visit to Egypt, English author and poet
Edward Lear described Sir Edward Stanton as "very good-natured". Sir Edward Stanton retired as a general in 1881. ==Family==