Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Courtown
Stopford in 2018
Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
Assumed office
13 July 2016
Prime Minister Theresa May
Preceded by John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
8 May 2015 – 13 July 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by The Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Succeeded by The Lord Ashton of Hyde
In office
8 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister John Major
Preceded by The Earl of Lindsay
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
23 July 1975
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by James Montagu Burgoyne Stopford, 8th Earl of Courtown
Personal details
Born James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford
(1954-03-19) 19 March 1954
Spouse(s)
Elisabeth Dunnett (m. 1985)
Education Eton College
Alma mater Berkshire College of Agriculture

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 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. His upper-class manner has been mocked by the press when reporting his contributions in the House of Lords.[3]

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. 1 2 Fintan Lambe (24 March 2010). "Earl of Courtown pays visit to family's ancestral home". independent.ie. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  3. ↑ John Crace (30 November 2015). "Their lordships rouse themselves to make a meal of tipping debate". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2018.

Sources

  • "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 2006-12-07. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
Political offices
Preceded by
The Lord Gardiner of Kimble		 Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
2016–present		 Incumbent
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
James Stopford		 Earl of Courtown
1975–present		 Incumbent
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