Charles Philip Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton (1752–1816) was an English peer.

Early life

Stourton was the son of

William Stourton, 16th Baron Stourton William Stourton, 16th Baron Stourton (1704–1781) was a British peer. By his marriage to a co-heiress of the 8th and 9th Dukes of Norfolk, his descendant Alfred Stourton, 20th Baron Stourton (1829–1893) inherited in 1877 the ancient abeyant ...

and Winifred Howard, a great-granddaughter of the 6th Duke of Norfolk and a leading Roman Catholic.

Career

The seventeenth Baron succeeded his father in 1781, and was succeeded by his son William Joseph in 1816. Charles inherited

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in Leeds, from his father, whose father, Captain the Hon. Charles Stourton, son of William Stourton, XII Baron Stourton, had acquired the estate by marriage and inheritance but sold it in 1803 before acquiring the Allerton Mauleverer estate in Yorkshire.

Personal life

On 12 July 1775, Charles married Mary Langdale, a daughter of Marmaduke, 5th

Baron Langdale Baron Langdale was a title that was created twice in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of England on 4 February 1658 when the prominent royalist commander of the English Civil War, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, was made by Baro ...

and his wife, Constantia Smythe, a sister of Walter Smythe and therefore an aunt of Maria Anne Smythe, who, following her second marriage became known as Mrs. Fitzherbert, the longtime companion of George, Prince of Wales (later

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). They had eight children, including: *

William Stourton, 18th Baron Stourton William Stourton, 18th Baron Stourton (1776–1846) was a Roman Catholic English peer. He is chiefly remembered for the private memoirs of his relative Maria Fitzherbert, the secret wife of King George IV, which she dictated to him, and which for ...

* Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour, 1st Baronet Vavasour of Hazelwood. *

Charles Langdale Charles Langdale (formerly Stourton); 19 September 1787 – 1 December 1868) was a British politician and biographer. He served as Whig Member of Parliament, wrote the memoirs of Maria Fitzherbert, and was a leading Roman Catholic figure durin ...

, who became one of the first

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

s in the

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and was a leading Roman Catholic layman in the 19th century. Lord Stourton died in 1816.Kidd, Charles and Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1995 edition). London: St. Martin's Press, 1995,

References

1752 births 1816 deaths *17

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