James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown

James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown KP, PC (Ire) (28 May 1731 – 30 March 1810), known as Viscount Stopford from 1762 to 1770, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1774 and 1793.

Courtown was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 and admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1784.

[1] Lord Courtown married Mary, daughter of Richard Powys, in 1762.

Richard Bruce Stopford (1774–1844) was Canon of Windsor and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son James, who also became a prominent Tory politician.