Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford

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

Life

The son of Captain Thomas Charles Fitzherbert and Helen Beryl Frances Waters, the young Fitzherbert was educated at Ampleforth College and succeeded his uncle as Baron Stafford on 28 September 1941, while still at school. With the Second World War ongoing, he received officer training and was commissioned into the Scots Guards, and was a Lieutenant by 1944. After the war, he began to manage his estate, based at Swynnerton Hall, Stone, Staffordshire, in 1947 took his seat in the House of Lords, and then continued his education at St John's College, Cambridge.

Stafford later became a local director of Barclays Bank.

He was a member of the MCC and the Army and Navy Club.

On his death aged 59 in 1986, Stafford was succeeded in his estate and his seat in the House of Lords by his eldest son.