Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown

James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown (also known as Patrick Courtown;[1] born 19 March 1954), styled Viscount Stopford between 1957 and 1975, is an Irish peer and politician. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999 and sits for the Conservatives.


The Earl of Courtown
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
Assumed office
13 July 2016
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded by The Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
8 May 2015  13 July 2016
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byThe Lord Popat of Harrow
Succeeded byThe Lord Young of Cookham
In office
8 July 1995  2 May 1997
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byThe Earl of Lindsay
Succeeded byThe Lord Hoyle
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
26 July 1979
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 8th Earl of Courtown
Personal details
Born
James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford

(1954-03-19) 19 March 1954
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Elisabeth Dunnett
(m. 1985)
ChildrenThe Viscount Stopford
EducationEton College
Alma materBerkshire College of Agriculture

The son of the 8th Earl of Courtown and Patricia Winthrop, he has a brother named Jeremy, and three sisters: Elizabeth, Mary and Felicity.[2] He was educated at Eton and at Berkshire College of Agriculture. He later attended the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. He succeeded to the earldom of Courtown in 1975. In 1985, he married Elisabeth Dunnett, daughter of I. R. Dunnett.

The earl took his seat in the Lords in 1991. In 1995 he was appointed a Lord in Waiting to Her Majesty The Queen, and a Government Whip. He was a government spokesman for the Home Office, Department of Transport and the Scottish Office. In 2013 he was appointed a Conservative party whip. Following the 2015 election he joined the Government, again as a Lord in Waiting to Her Majesty and as a Government Whip. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Whip and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard in the May ministry in July 2016.

The Courtown ancestral home, Courtown House, was demolished in the 1960s, but the earl visited its location in 2010, with members of his family, and unveiled a plaque in memory of his father at the local church.[2]

The earl's heir apparent is his son James, who is currently styled as Viscount Stopford.

References

  1. Personal website
  2. Fintan Lambe (24 March 2010). "Earl of Courtown pays visit to family's ancestral home". The Irish Independent. Retrieved 28 September 2018.

Sources

Political offices
Preceded by
The Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
2016–present
Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office
Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under of the House of Lords Act 1999
1999–present
Incumbent
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
James Stopford
Earl of Courtown
1975–present
Incumbent
Heir apparent:
James Stopford, Viscount Stopford
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