Walter Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh

Walter Stafford Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh CB (7 August 1845 – 26 May 1927) was an English landowner, peer, civil servant, and author, a member of the House of Lords from 1887 until his death.

The son of Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Cecilia Frances Farrer, Northcote was Commissioner, deputy-chairman, and chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue between 1877 and 1892. In 1887 he succeeded his father in the recently-created peerages of Viscount Saint Cyres and Earl of Iddesleigh.^[1]

He was a Justice of the Peace for Devon and in 1887 was appointed as a Companion of the Order of the Bath.^[1]

On 23 September 1868 Northcote married Elizabeth Lucy Meysey-Thompson, a daughter of Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet, and Elizabeth Anne Croft.^[1] They had a son and three daughters:

• Stafford Harry Northcote, Viscount Saint Cyres (29 August 1869 – 2 February 1926)^[1]
• Lady Katharine Cecilia Rachel Northcote (died 1893)^[1]
• Lady Rosalind Lucy Northcote (died 1950)^[1]
• Lady Elizabeth Mabel Northcote (died 1915)^[1]

The second Earl of Iddesleigh died on 26 May 1927, at the age of 81. As his only son had died childless the year before, he was succeeded by a nephew, Henry Stafford Northcote, 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh (1901–1970).^[1]

Iddesleigh, Alberta, was named in his honour.^[2]

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