Basil Francis Nicholas Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford (7 April 1926 – 8 January 1986) was an English soldier, landowner, and peer, a member of the

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for almost forty years.

Life

The son of Captain Thomas Charles Fitzherbert and Helen Beryl Frances Waters, the young Fitzherbert was educated at

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and succeeded his uncle as

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on 28 September 1941, while still at school. With the

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ongoing, he received officer training and was commissioned into the

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, and was a Lieutenant by 1944.''

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'', vol. 3 (2003), p. 3709 After the war, he began to manage his estate, based at

Swynnerton Hall Swynnerton Hall is an 18th-century country mansion house, the home of Lord Stafford, situated at Swynnerton near Stone, Staffordshire. It is a Grade I listed building. History The manor of Swynnerton was owned by the eponymous family for severa ...

Stone, Staffordshire Stone is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England; it is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of the county town of Stafford, 7 miles (11 km) south of Stoke-on-Trent and 15 miles (24 km) north of Rugeley. As a notable c ...

, in 1947 took his seat in the

, and then continued his education at

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.''Dod's Parliamentary Companion'', Issue 165 (Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited, 1984), p. 263 In 1951, he failed his First Public Examination in Agriculture for a second time, and his tutor noted “...his main failing being that he does not recognize the need to ''learn'' things”. Stafford later became a local director of

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Private life

On 16 June 1952, Stafford married Morag Nada Campbell, a daughter of Lt.-Col. Alastair Campbell, and they had six children, Aileen Mary (1953), Francis Melfort William (1954), Thomas Alastair (1955), Caroline Fiona (1956), Wendy Helen (1961), and Philip Basil (1962). Lady Stafford died in . He was a member of the MCC and the

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at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 14 April 2020

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stafford, Basil Francis Nicholas Fitzherbert, 14th Baron 1926 births 1986 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 14 Deputy lieutenants of Staffordshire

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High sheriffs of Staffordshire People educated at Ampleforth College Scots Guards officers 20th-century English nobility