William Stafford-Howard, 3rd Earl of Stafford

He was the only son of Anne Holman (d. 1725)[1] and William Stafford-Howard, 2nd Earl of Stafford, who were first cousins.

[3][4] His paternal grandparents were the former Mary Southcote (a daughter of Sir John Southcote)[5] and John Stafford-Howard (a son of the 1st Viscount Stafford),[6] who served as King James II's Ambassador to King Louis XIV when the former was exiled at Saint-Germain.

His maternal grandparents were George Holman of Warkworth, Northamptonshire and Anastasia Howard (a daughter of the 1st Viscount Stafford).

[7][10] He inherited a number of English estates from his Holman family members, which he sold in 1749 to Edward Greenly of Doctors' Commons.

His widow Henrietta married Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham.

Portrait of his father, the 2nd Earl of Stafford , by Godfrey Kneller , 1730
Portrait of his wife, Henrietta Diana, Dowager Countess of Stafford, by Allan Ramsay , 1759