Francis Melfort William Fitzherbert, 15th Baron Stafford DL (born 13 March 1954) is an English politician, educator and landowner, who had a seat in the House of Lords from 1986 until the reform of the House of Lords which took effect in 2000.
Stafford belongs to the Roman Catholic landed gentry family of Fitzherbert, whose most famous member was Maria Fitzherbert, the first (unrecognised) wife of King George IV.
On his father's death in 1986 he inherited the Barony of Stafford and the Swynnerton Park estate near Stone, Staffordshire.
[1] He now serves as the Chancellor of Staffordshire University[3] and has been a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county since 1993.
[2] Stafford married Katherine Mary Codrington on 28 June 1980.