Career
He was also a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station. Fitzherbert joined the Royal Navy in 1877. Promoted to Captain in 1904, he was given command of the battleship HMS Albemarle, of the training ship HMS Impegnable and then of the armoured cruiser HMS Bedford which ran aground during sea trials in 1910.
He served in World War I as Director of Mines and Torpedoes from October 1915 and as Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station from May 1918.
He became a full Admiral on retirement in 1925. His father was Basil Thomas Fitzherbert and his mother was Emily Charlotte Stafford-Jerningham.
He changed his surname to Fitzherbert-Stafford by Royal License. He died at the family seat of Swynnerton Hall at age 77.