Stockdale is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

originating from Northern England, probably Yorkshire. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its frequency was highest in Yorkshire, followed by

Westmorland Westmorland (, formerly also spelt ''Westmoreland'';R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British IslesVision of Britain/ref> is a historic county in North West England spanning the southern Lake District and the northern Dales. It had an ...

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

County Durham County Durham ( ), officially simply Durham,UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. is a ceremonial county in North East England.North East Assembly �About North East E ...

, Nottinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire,

Rutland Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire. Its greatest len ...

, and Lancashire. The family name has several different spellings that have appeared historically. Some of those variations are Stocksdale, Stogdel, Stogsdill, Stockdel, Stogdill, Stoxdale, and Stockstill.

People

* Alan Stockdale (born 1945), Australian politician * Alexander Stockdale (1509–1563), English politician and Yorkshire landowner * Andrew Stockdale (born 1976), lead singer of Australian band Wolfmother *Sir

Arthur Stockdale Cope Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope, (2 November 1857 – 5 July 1940) was a British portraitist. Biography Cope was born on 2 November 1857, in South Kensington, London. His father was Charles West Cope (1811–1890), a successful history and genr ...

(1857–1940), English painter * Carl Stockdale (1874–1953), American actor *

Christopher Walters Stockdale Christopher Walters Stockdale (1665–1713) was an English politician and landowner in Yorkshire who served as Member of Parliament for Knaresborough from 1693 until his death in 1713. Life He was born Christopher Walters in 1665, the second s ...

(1665–1713), English parliamentarian and landowner *

Christopher Stockdale Christopher James Stockdale (born 15 May 1965) is a former English cricketer. Stockdale was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Carlisle, Cumberland and grew up in Penrith, Cumberland. Stockdale made h ...

(born 1965), English cricketer *

David Stockdale David Adam Stockdale (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for York City F.C., York City. Stockdale started his career with the Huddersf ...

(born 1985), English footballer *Sir

Edmund Stockdale Sir Edmund Villiers Minshull Stockdale, 1st Baronet (16 April 190324 March 1989) was an English banker who served as the 632nd Lord Mayor of London from 1959 to 1960. Life Edmund Stockdale was born on 16 April 1903, the son of Major Henry Stock ...

(1903–1989), Lord Mayor of London from 1959–1960, 1st Stockdale baronet *

Fletcher Stockdale Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale (c. 1823 – 4 February 1890) was an American politician, lawyer, and railroad official who served as Acting Governor of Texas and Lieutenant Governor of Texas. Early life Stockdale was born in either 1823 or 182 ...

(c. 1823–1890), American politician and Governor of Texas *Sir

Frank Arthur Stockdale Sir Frank Arthur Stockdale, (24 June 1883 – 3 August 1949) was a British agriculturist and colonial agricultural administrator. Biography Stockdale was born in Honington, Lincolnshire, Honington, Lincolnshire, the son of George Stockdale. His ...

(1883–1949), English agriculturist *

Freddie Stockdale Frederick Minshull Stockdale (20 May 1947 – 23 November 2018) was a British opera impresario known for founding Pavilion Opera. He also wrote a number of fiction and non-fiction works with an opera theme. Early life and family Stockdale was b ...

(1947–2018), British opera impresario, founder of Pavilion Opera * Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale (1786–1858), British artist *

Geoff Stockdale Geoff Stockdale (born 21 March 1944) is a British speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a ...

(born 1944), British speed skater *

Grant Stockdale Edward Grant Stockdale (July 31, 1915 – December 2, 1963), was a Florida businessman and friend of President John F. Kennedy who served as United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1961 to 1962. Early years Born Edward Grant Stockdale in 1915, ...

(1915–1963), United States Ambassador to Ireland * Greg Stockdale (1899–1949), Australian rules footballer * Henrietta Stockdale (1847–1911), British nursing pioneer *

Herbert F. Stockdale Herbert Fitton Stockdale FRSE LLD (1865–1951) was a 19th/20th century British university administrator. Life He was born in Ravensthorpe in Yorkshire on 13 January 1865 and educated in the Boothroyd School. In 1889 (aged 21) he became Assi ...

FRSE (1865–1951), British academic administrator *

Jacob Stockdale Jacob Stockdale (born 3 April 1996) is an Irish professional rugby union player who currently plays for Ulster and for Ireland. He plays on the wing or at fullback. He holds the record for tries scored in a single Six Nations Championship, scori ...

(born 1996), Irish rugby player * James Stockdale (1923–2005), United States Navy admiral, 1992 U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate *

John Stockdale Hardy John Stockdale Hardy (1793–1849) was an English legal practitioner known as an antiquary. Life Born at Leicester 7 October 1793, he was the only child of William Hardy, a manufacturer there. After education in a private school in Leicester, he ...

(1793–1849) English antiquarian *

John Stockdale John Stockdale (25 March 1750Probable – Stockdale (2005) p. 117 – 21 June 1814) was an English publisher whose London shop became a salon for the political classes and who had to face two actions for defamation. One by the House of Commons b ...

(1750–1814), English publisher **

John Joseph Stockdale John Joseph Stockdale (1770, 1776Stockdale (1990) ''p.''30 or 1777 – 16 February 1847) was an English publisher and editor with something of a reputation as a pornographer. He sought to blackmail a number of public figures over the ''memoirs ...

(1770–1847), publisher, son of John Stockdale **

Mary Stockdale Mary Ridgway Stockdale (1774–1854) was an English writer on the themes of Christian spirituality. She was born on 18 May 1774 in parish of St James, Piccadilly, Westminster, and was the daughter of John Stockdale and sister of John Joseph Stock ...

(1774–1854), writer and publisher, daughter of John Stockdale *

Joseph Stockdale Joseph Stockdale (died 10 October 1803) was the publisher of Bermuda's first newspaper, the ''The Bermuda Gazette'', a Bermudian English-language weekly newspaper. It was published from 1784 to 1803 by Stockdale (and by his three daughters from ...

(1754–1803), first editor and printer of ''

The Bermuda Gazette ''The Bermuda Gazette'' was a Bermudian English-language weekly newspaper. Published from 1784 to 1816 by Joseph Stockdale (and by his three daughters from 1803 to 1816), it was Bermuda's first newspaper. In 1782, the Bermudian Legislature a ...

'' (est. 1784); commemorated on a Bermuda stamp in 1984 *

Mark Stockdale Mark Stockdale (born 26 October 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving a ...

(born 1968) Australian rules footballer *Sir Noel Stockdale (1920–2004), English businessman, co-founded Asda *

Percival Stockdale Percival Stockdale (1736–1811) was an English poet, writer and reformer, active especially in opposing slavery. Biography Born 26 October 1736 (O. S.) at Branxton, Northumberland, he was the only child of Thomas Stockdale, vicar of the parish a ...

(1736–1811), anti-slavery English poet *

Reginald Booth Stockdale Major-General Reginald Booth Stockdale CB CMG OBE FIMechE (12 January 1908 – 12 April 1979) was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers between 1963 and 1968.''Kelly’s Handbook To The Titled, Landed and Officia ...

(1908–1979), English Colonel Commandant of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers *

Robbie Stockdale Robert Keith Stockdale (born 30 November 1979) is a football manager and former professional footballer. As a player, he was a defender from 1997 to 2012. He notably played Premier League football for Middlesbrough having also appeared as a p ...

(born 1979), English footballer *

Stuart Stockdale Stuart Stockdale is an English fashion designer, born in Carlisle, Cumbria. He has lived and worked around the world and he currently lives in London and Paris . Biography Stuart studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art ...

, English fashion designer, former head of design at Pringle of Scotland * Sue Stockdale (born 1966), British polar adventurer *

Susan Stockdale Susan Norton () is an England international and world champion contract bridge, bridge player. Norton was taught bridge by her parents. She made her junior international debut at the age of 14. She read physics at Oxford University, where she ...

, England international and world champion bridge player *

Sybil Stockdale Sybil Elizabeth Stockdale (; November 25, 1924 – October 10, 2015) was an American campaigner for families of Americans missing in South East Asia. Sybil was the founder and first national coordinator of the National League of Families of ...

(1924–2015), co-founder and National Coordinator of the National League of Families * Tim Stockdale (1964–2018), English equestrian * Thomas Stockdale (disambiguation) multiple people *

Sir Thomas Minshull Stockdale Sir Thomas Minshull Stockdale, 2nd Baronet (7 January 1940 – 28 October 2021) was an English barrister and landowner. Life Sir Thomas was born on 7 January 1940 the son of Sir Edmund Stockdale and Lady Louise Stockdale (née Fermor-Hesketh ...

(1940–2021), English barrister, 2nd Stockdale baronet * Valentine Stockdale (born 1981), English film producer *

William Stockdale William Stockdale (c. 1634 – 3 March 1693) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Stockdale was the son of Thomas Stockdale of Bilton Park, Yorkshire and was baptised at Knaresborough on 3 January 1635. He was a ...

(1634–1693), English parliamentarian and landowner * William Stockdale (Vice-Chancellor), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1494

Titles

Stockdale baronets The Stockdale Baronetcy, of Hoddington in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created by the Queen on 5 December 1960 for Edmund Stockdale, Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is th ...

, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Fictional people

* Barney Stockdale, a character in a Sherlock Holmes short story *No Time for Sergeants, various concerning Private Will Stockdale ** No Time for Sergeants, a 1954 best-selling novel by Mac Hyman ** No Time for Sergeants, a 1958 film starring Andy Griffith

Places

United States

* Stockdale, Delaware *

Stockdale, Indiana Stockdale is an unincorporated community in Paw Paw Township, Wabash County and Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Stockdale was laid out in 1837 by Thomas Goudy. When the Eel River Railroad was built, it was extended to near ...

Stockdale, Missouri Stockdale is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to t ...

Stockdale, Ohio Stockdale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Marion Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States. Stockdale has a post office with the ZIP code 45683. Stockdale is served by the Minford Telephone Company and Eas ...

* Stockdale, Pennsylvania * Stockdale, Texas * Stockdale High School (disambiguation), multiple schools *

Stockdale Mill Stockdale Mill, also known as the Roann Roller Mill, is a historic grist mill building located in Paw Paw Township, Wabash County, Indiana. It was built between 1855 and 1857, and is a -story, post and beam frame mill building. The mill is powere ...

, on the National Register of Historic Places * Stockdale neighborhood, a neighborhood in South Bakersfield, California

United Kingdom

Stockdale Shales The Stockdale Shales is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period. The shales were named by W. Talbot Aveline from the beck and hamlet of that name in Longsleddale. See also * List of fossilifero ...

, a Silurian period geological formation in England **

Stockdale Group The Stockdale Group is a Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in the southern Lake District and Howgill Fells of the Pennines of northern England. The name is derived from the locality of Stockdale near the top of Longsle ...

, another name for the above *

Stockdalewath Stockdalewath is a small village in Cumbria, approximately 7.5 miles south of Carlisle in the extreme northwest of England. It is located on the River Roe, and is in the civil parish of Dalston. As of the 2011 census, the population is estimat ...

, Cumbria

Other

* USS ''Stockdale'', several ships *''

Stockdale v Hansard ''Stockdale v Hansard'' (1839) 9 Ad & El 1 is a United Kingdom constitutional law case in which the Parliament of the United Kingdom unsuccessfully challenged the common law of parliamentary privilege, leading to legislative reform. Facts The ...

'', an 1839 decision of the United Kingdom court regarding the common law of parliamentary privilege * Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership, U.S. naval award for inspirational leadership * Stockdale paradox, named after U.S. Navy vice-admiral James Stockdale

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