Richard Stafford (Jacobite)
Richard Stafford may refer to: * Richard Stafford (pioneer), land speculator and pioneer of Hampshire County, West Virginia * Richard Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford of Clifton, English soldier and diplomat * Richard Anthony Stafford (1801–1854), English surgeon * Dick Stafford Richard Calvert Stafford (23 July 1893 – 1 December 1912) was an English rugby union player. He played four times for the England national rugby union team in 1912 but died later that year aged only nineteen. Life Stafford was born on 23 Jul ...

Richard Stafford (pioneer)
Richard Stafford (c.1755 – 1808) was a land speculator and pioneer of Hampshire County, West Virginia. He was one of the founding trustees of Fort Ashby, West Virginia, in 1787. Biography Richard Stafford was born about 1755 in Wexford County, Ireland. The Staffords of Wexford County are said to be descendants of a John Stafford, third son of the noble Buckinghamshire family who emigrated to Wexford County before 1335. The family acquired Ballymachrane during the reign of King Henry VII. A John Stafford was High Sheriff in 1640. In 1775, Richard Stafford was arrested in London and convicted on charges of robbery. Given the choice between hanging and 14 years of military service, he chose the military. It is thought that he arrived with the British Fleet in New York Harbor in the summer of 1776. Under the command of General William Howe and Admiral Lord Richard Howe, 1200 cannon, 30,000 soldiers, and 10,000 sailors landed to put down the American Revolution. Staffo ...
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Richard Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford Of Clifton
Richard Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford of Clifton (died 13 August 1380), Lord of Clifton, was an English soldier and diplomat during the Hundred Years' War. He was the second son of Edmund Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford and Margaret Basset, and the younger brother of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford. He was the founder of the Staffords of Clifton, a cadet branch of the House of Stafford. Early life Richard Stafford was the second son of Edmund Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford and Margaret Basset, the daughter of Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton. His elder brother was Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford.Ralph Stafford, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Career

Stafford was involved in the French campaigns of King

Richard Anthony Stafford
Richard Anthony Stafford (1801 – 15 January 1854) was an English surgeon. Biography Stafford was third son of Egerton Stafford, rector of Chalcombe and of Thenford in Northamptonshire, was born at Cropredy, Oxfordshire, in 1801. Through his mother he was one of the next of kin to William of Wykeham. Stafford was educated privately, and was then apprenticed to two noted practitioners of Cirencester, Lawrence and Warner, the former being father of the great surgeon, Sir William Lawrence. He came to London in 1820, and entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he soon attracted the notice of John Abernethy, who appointed him his house-surgeon for 1823–4. He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1824. He then went abroad and spent a year in Paris. He returned to London in 1826, and commenced to practise as a surgeon. The Jacksonian prize was awarded to him in this year for his essay ‘On Spina Bifida, and Injuries and Diseases of the Spine and the M ...
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