Walter Stafford Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh CB (7 August 1845 – 26 May 1927) was an English landowner, peer, civil servant, and author, a member of the House of Lords from 1887 until his death.
[1] The son of Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Cecilia Frances Farrer, Northcote was Commissioner, deputy-chairman, and chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue between 1877 and 1892.
In 1887 he succeeded his father in the recently-created peerages of Viscount Saint Cyres and Earl of Iddesleigh.
[3] He was also a Justice of the Peace for Devon and in 1887 was appointed as a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
As his only son had died childless the year before, he was succeeded by a nephew, Henry Stafford Northcote, 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh (1901–1970).