The family assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Stafford at the same time.

[3] Stafford was returned as a Whig to Parliament for Pontefract at the 1830 general election,[4] a seat he held until the dissolution of Parliament in December 1834;[5] he did not stand again at the 1835 general election.

[1] After her death in November 1856, he married secondly to Emma Eliza Gerard on 12 September 1859.

[1] He died at the family seat of Costessey Park, Norfolk, in November 1884, aged 82, and was succeeded in the barony and baronetcy by his nephew, Augustus Frederick Fitzherbert Stafford-Jerningham.

[1] After his death, Lady Stafford remarried to Basil Thomas Fitzherbert (father of Edward Fitzherbert, 13th Baron Stafford from his first marriage),[8] before her death in November 1912.