He was the second son of James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown, and his wife Mary (née Powys).
[1] He served in the British Army and achieved the rank of Lieutenant-General.
In 1810, he succeeded his elder brother as member of parliament for Marlborough, a seat he held until 1818.
He was honoured when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath[2] and Colonel of the 41st Regiment of Foot from 1819 to his death.
[3] He never married, but he had an affair with a French actress, Mademoiselle Anaïs, with whom he had a son, Edward Stopford Claremont, who also became a British Army general.