Charles Edward Stourton born 11 March 1923, St oswald's House left 1941, Christ Church, Oxford, Grenadier Guards 1941-1945, Gold Stick at the Coronation in 1953, pig farmer in Yorkshire, member of the House of Lords 1965-2006 [hereditary member 1965-1999, elected member 1999-2006], Government Spokesman for the Environment 1970-74, Government Spokesman for the Environment, Transport and the Arts 1979-80, Vice-president of the British Association of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, Director of Securicor 1960s, Chairman of the Thames Esturary Airport Company 1993-2006, Captain of the House of Lords Shooting Team, married Jane de Yarburgh-Bateson 1953 (2 sons), married Joan, Lady Holland 1999 [died 22 December 2006], died 12 December 2006 Scotland.

Charles Edward Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, 27th Baron Segrave and 23rd Baron Stourton CBE was the third most senior barony in the Peerage of England.

In 1953 he married Jane de Yarburgh-Bateson, and they had two sons: Edward William Stephen Stourton, 27th Baron Mowbray (W70) and Hon James Stourton (O74). His wife died in 1998. In 1999 he married Joan, Lady Holland. She died on 22 December 2006, 10 days after his death.

Recognisable by his eye-patch, 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.

OA deaths 2006

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