Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton

He was a younger son of Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton and Lady Anne Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby.

[1] He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1575.

[5] He was a close friend of Robert Catesby[6] and Catesby's recruitment of Francis Tresham to the Gunpowder Plot took place in Stourton's house in Clerkenwell.

[7] He was suspected of deliberately avoiding the opening of parliament, although the conspirators may contrived to delay him without revealing their plans.

[11] He may subsequently have occasionally attended Church of England services, but continued to house Catholic priests.