Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown

The Right Honourable The Earl of Courtown
Official portrait, 2018
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 July 2016
Prime Minister	Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak[1]
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
as a hereditary peer 24 July 1979 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 8th Earl of Courtown
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Incumbent
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999
Election	1999
Preceded by	Seat established
Personal details
Born	James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford (1954-03-19) 19 March 1954 (age 70)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Elisabeth Dunnett ​ (m. 1985)​
Children	James Stopford, Viscount Stopford
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Berkshire College of Agriculture

James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown^[2] (also known as Patrick Courtown;^[3] 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 James Stopford, 8th Earl of Courtown and Patricia Winthrop, he has a brother named Jeremy, and three sisters: Elizabeth, Mary and Felicity.^[4] He was educated at Eton and at the 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 House of Lords as 8th Baron Saltersford in 1979.^[5] In 1995, he was appointed a lord-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, 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 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. In that role, he took part in the Royal Procession at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla.^[6]

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.^[4]

The Earl's heir apparent is his son, James.

References

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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