Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown
The Earl of Courtown | |
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| 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 Minister | Theresa May Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | The Lord Gardiner of Kimble |
| Lord-in-waiting Government Whip | |
| In office 8 May 2015 – 13 July 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Lord Popat of Harrow |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Young of Cookham |
| In office 8 July 1995 – 2 May 1997 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Lindsay |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Hoyle |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 26 July 1979 Hereditary Peerage | |
| Preceded by | The 8th Earl of Courtown |
| Personal details | |
| Born | James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford 19 March 1954 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Elisabeth Dunnett (m. 1985) |
| Children | Viscount Stopford |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Berkshire College of Agriculture |
James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown[1] (also known as Patrick Courtown;[2] 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 son of the 8th Earl of Courtown and Patricia Winthrop, he has a brother named Jeremy, and three sisters: Elizabeth, Mary and Felicity.[3] 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 Ian Rodger Dunnett.
The earl took his seat in the Lords in 1979.[4] 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.[3]
The earl's heir apparent is his son James, who is currently styled as Viscount Stopford.
References[]
- ^ "Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (Lords Deputy Chief Whip)". gov.uk.
- ^ Personal website
- ^ a b Fintan Lambe (24 March 2010). "Earl of Courtown pays visit to family's ancestral home". The Irish Independent. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ^ HL Deb, 26 July 1979 vol 401 c2035
Sources[]
- "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 7 December 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2007.
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Courtown
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