Education
Eton College; Royal Agricultural University.
Eton College; Royal Agricultural University.
He is one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Acting 1999 and sits for the Conservatives. In 1995 he was appointed a Lord in Waiting to Her Majesty The Queen and Government Whip. He was a government spokesman for the Home Office, Department of Transport and the Scottish Office.
In 2013 he was appointed a Conservative party whip.
Following the 2015 election he was invited to join the Government as a Lord in Waiting to Her Majesty and Government Whip. The son of the James Stopford, 8th Earl of Courtown and Patricia Winthrop, he was educated at Eton and the Berkshire College of Agriculture.
He was further educated at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. He succeeded to his father"s titles in 1975.
Lord Courtown has been married to Elisabeth Dunnett, daughter of I. R. Dunnett since 1985.
The heir apparent is Lord Courtown"s son, James, who is currently styled as Viscount Stopford.
