Stafford Harry Northcote, Viscount Saint Cyres KStJ (29 August 1869 – 2 February 1926) was an English diplomat and historian.
The only son of Walter Stafford Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh and Elizabeth Lucy Meysey-Thompson, he was styled as Viscount Saint Cyres from 1887 until his death.
[1] He was educated at Eton[2] and Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated BA with a First in modern history and later MA.
He was Secretary and Counsellor in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service and was also active as a historian.
[5] Northcote is quoted in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs (Yale, 2012): “We do not care for things once they are ours; what we enjoy is running after them.”[7]