Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray

Charles Edward Stourton, 23rd Baron Stourton, 27th Baron Segrave, 26th Baron Mowbray

CBE (11 March 1923 – 12 December 2006) was an English peer. He sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and was a Conservative whip in government and in opposition from 1967 to 1980. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to keep their seat in the reformed House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999

.

Family

Mowbray was the only son of William Marmaduke Stourton, 22nd Baron Stourton, 26th Baron Segrave, and 25th Baron Mowbray, and Sheila Gully, a granddaughter of William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1895 to 1905.^[1] He had one sister.

Through his father, he was descended from a brother of

US Congress

.

Education and military service

He was educated at

Second World War. He was injured and lost his right eye near Caen in 1944.^[2]

He left the Army in 1945, and ran a pig farm on the family estate in Yorkshire.

Marriage and children

Mowbray married Jane de Yarburgh-Bateson, the only child of Stephen de Yarburgh-Bateson, 5th Baron Deramore, in 1953. They had two sons. His elder son Edward (born 17 April 1953) succeeded him as Lord Mowbray.

His wife died in 1998, and in 1999 he married Joan, Lady Holland (née Street), widow of Sir Guy Holland.

Political career

Stourton was

Gold Stick Officer at the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. He was a councillor on Nidderdale Rural District

Council from 1954 to 1959.

Despite his strong

judicial separation

on the grounds of her husband's cruelty. Stourton subsequently took his father to court over disputes concerning the administration of the family estates. The case was later settled.

He inherited three baronies when his father died in 1965. The

Gothic Revival

stately home in England, was left in trust until Edward was 30. The house was leased to an American businessman in 1983.

Recognisable by his eyepatch, he sat on the Conservative benches and rarely departed from the Conservative party line. He became an opposition whip in 1967, and continued as a Conservative whip for 13 years until he resigned in 1980. As a

Committee of Privileges

and was a captain of the House of Lords shooting team.

He was vice-president of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and was also its longest-serving Knight. Mowbray also served as President and Delegate of the British and Irish Association of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George under the Grand Master, the Duke of Castro between 1975–2000.

He became a director of Securicor in the 1960s. He was chairman of Thames Estuary Airport Company from 1993.

References

^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 3, pp. 3563–4
^ "Proud of a lineage that goes back to the Magna Carta". 23 December 2006.

Peerage of England
Preceded by William Stourton	Baron Mowbray Baron Segrave Baron Stourton 1965–2006 Member of the House of Lords (1965–1999)	Succeeded by Edward Stourton
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office created by the House of Lords Act 1999	Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 1999–2006	Succeeded by The Earl Cathcart

External links

[1], The Daily Telegraph, 15 December 2006
Obituary, The Independent, 19 December 2006
Obituary^{[Yorkshire Post, 23 December 2006}
Obituary, The Times, 3 January 2007

[1] Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 3, pp. 3563–4

[2] "Proud of a lineage that goes back to the Magna Carta". 23 December 2006.

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