Alfred Stourton, 23rd Baron Mowbray

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Arms of Stourton: Sable, a bend or between six fountains
Quartered arms of Stourton, Barons Mowbray: quarterly of six:[1] *1st: Sable, a bend or between six fountains (Stourton); *2nd: Gules, on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (Howard); *3rd: Gules, a lion rampant argent (Mowbray); *4th: Sable, a lion rampant argent ducally crowned or (Segrave);
*5th: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure a label of three points argent (Plantagenet (Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk)); *6th Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or (Talbot)

Alfred Joseph Stourton, 20th Baron Stourton, 24th Baron Segrave, 23rd Baron Mowbray (28 February 1829 – 18 April 1893) was the son of the nineteenth Baron Stourton.

By virtue of being descended from a co-heiress of the baronies of Mowbray and Segrave, Alfred had these baronies called out of abeyance in 1878.

He married Mary Margaret Corbally in 1865. They had ten children:

  • Hon. Charles Stourton (1867–1936); inherited his father's titles in 1893.
  • Hon. Mary Lucy Agnes Stourton (1868–1950); married to Cecil Henry Maxwell-Lyte
  • Hon. Edith Matilda Mary Stourton (1870–1924); unmarried
  • Hon. Hilda Mary Stourton (1871–1958); unmarried
  • Major Hon. Alfred Edward Corbally Joseph Stourton (1872–1926); Second Boer War veteran
  • Hon. Alison Mary Stourton (1874–1957); unmarried
  • Hon. Ethel Mary Josephine Stourton (1876–1948); unmarried
  • Hon. Nigel Roger Plantagenet Joseph Stourton (1879–1908); married Florence Piggott, no issue
  • Hon. Edward Plantagenet Joseph Corbally Stourton (1880–1966); married Beatrice Page, 2 children
  • Hon. Matilda Margaret Mary Josephine Stourton (1884–1975); married Lt.-Col. Herbert Alexander Graf (Count) von Metzsch-Reichenbach of the Kingdom of Saxony
Peerage of England
Vacant
Abeyant
Title last held by
Edward Howard
Baron Mowbray
Baron Segrave

1878–1893
Succeeded by
Preceded by Baron Stourton
1872–1893

Notes[]

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.807, Baron Mowbray

References[]

  • Kidd, Charles and Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1995 edition). London: St. Martin's Press, 1995,[page needed],[page needed]


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