Francis Edward Fitzherbert-Stafford, 12th Baron Stafford, Defence Science Organisation was an English peer and British Army officer, holding the title Baron Stafford.
Background
Francis Edward"s father was Basil Thomas Fitzherbert and his mother was Emily Charlotte Stafford-Jerningham. lieutenant was through his mother"s side of the family that he gained the Stafford barony. His uncle Fitzherbert Edward Stafford-Jerningham, 11th Baron Stafford had died without issue in 1913.
Career
His lifetime marked the point where the Stafford barony first came into contact with Fitzherbert as a surname. A Roman Catholic, he was educated at Beaumont College, Windsor. Fitzherbert was commissioned in 1877 into the Lancashire Militia, which from 1881 became the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Lancaster Regiment.
He was promoted to major in the regiment on 5 February 1900, became honorary lieutenant-colonel in 1901, and renounced his militia commission in 1903.
He was also commissioned into his native county"s Staffordshire Yeomanry in 1885, and promoted Major in that regiment in 1898. In the First World War he served purely on home defence duties, becoming Colonel commanding the Staffordshire Volunteer Regiment of the Volunteer Training Corps.
He was a Doctor of Laws and Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire and Lord High Steward of the Borough of Stafford. Marriage and Later On 20 April 1903 Fitzherbert-Stafford married Dorothy Hilda Worthington, the daughter of Albert Octavius Worthington.
Together the two did not parent any children.
He died at the family seat of Swynnerton Hall at age 73.