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.

With the Second World War ongoing, he received officer training and was commissioned into the Scots Guards, and was a Lieutenant by 1944.

[1] 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.

[2] On 16 June 1952, Stafford married Morag Nada Campbell, a daughter of Lt.-Col. Alastair Campbell, and they had six children, Aileen Mary (1953), Francis Melfort William (1954), Thomas Alastair (1955), Caroline Fiona (1956), Wendy Helen (1961), and Philip Basil (1962).

[2] 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.