He was also a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station.

[7] He served in World War I as Director of Mines and Torpedoes from October 1915 and saw the introduction of the highly successful Coastal Motor Boat craft and the variant of this, the first unmanned Radio Controlled naval vessels, the Distant Control Boats.

[9] On 14 June 1919, he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of the Tower and Sword by the Portuguese President João do Canto e Castro.

[10] His father was Basil Thomas Fitzherbert and his mother was Emily Charlotte Stafford-Jerningham.

The 13th Baron Stafford died at the family seat of Swynnerton Hall in 1941 at age 77.