William Jerningham

Sir William Jerningham, 6th Baronet, de jure 7th Baron Stafford (7 March 1736 – 14 August 1809) was an English landowner.

Early life Jerningham was born on 7 March 1736. He was the only son of Marie Françoise "Mary" Plowden (1704–1785) and Sir George Jerningham, 5th Baronet. His mother was the sole heiress of her uncle, John Stafford-Howard, 4th Earl of Stafford.

Upon the death of his father on 21 January 1774, he succeeded as the 7th Baronet Jerningham.

Personal life On 16 June 1767, Sir William married the Hon. Frances Dillon (–1825), daughter of Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon and Lady Charlotte Lee (a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lichfield). The Dillon family also had a strong Jacobite heritage. Together they were the parents of:

Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham (1770–1854), who married Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5th Baronet, son of Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 4th Baronet, in 1795. in 1836. William Charles Jerningham (1772–1820), an Officer in the Austrian service who married Anne Wright, daughter of Thomas Wright, in 1803. After her death, he married Anne Moore, daughter of Edward Moore, in 1816. His youngest son Edward designed the St. Augustine Chapel at the family seat which opened the week after his death in 1809.