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Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray

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Recognisable by his eyepatch, he sat on the Conservative benches and rarely departed from the Conservative party line. He became an opposition whip in 1967, and continued as a Conservative whip for 13 years until he resigned in 1980. As a
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faith, he took his mother's side when his parents separated in 1961, in a case that drew significant publicity. His father was labelled "egocentric" and his mother was granted a decree of
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on the grounds of her husband's cruelty. Stourton subsequently took his father to court over disputes concerning the administration of the family estates. The case was later settled.
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Mowbray married Jane de Yarburgh-Bateson, the only child of Stephen de Yarburgh-Bateson, 5th Baron Deramore, in 1953. They had two sons. His elder son
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stately home in England, was left in trust until Edward was 30. The house was leased to an American businessman in 1983.
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His wife died in 1998, and in 1999 he married Joan, Lady Holland (nÊe Street), widow of Sir Guy Holland.
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and was a Conservative whip in government and in opposition from 1967 to 1980. He was one of the 92
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from 1979 to 1980. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1982. After the
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from 1970 to 1974, and on transport, the environment, and the arts for the government of
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in 1944. He left the Army in 1945, and ran a pig farm on the family estate in Yorkshire.
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in 1976 with a parliamentary delegation that presented one of the four copies of the
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Charles Edward Stourton, 23rd Baron Stourton, 27th Baron Segrave, 26th Baron Mowbray
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elected to keep their seat in the reformed House of Lords under the
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Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 3, pp. 3563–4
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to keep a seat in the reformed House. He sat on the House of Lords
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He inherited three baronies when his father died in 1965. The
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Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999
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Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting
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He was vice-president of the British Association of the
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and was a captain of the House of Lords shooting team.
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Through his father, he was descended from a brother of
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in 1215; as a direct descendant, Charles travelled to
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Nick Sinclair
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Conservative
House of Lords
hereditary peers
House of Lords Act 1999
William Marmaduke Stourton
Baron Stourton
Baron Segrave
Baron Mowbray
William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby
Speaker of the House of Commons
Geoffrey de Mowbray
Bishop of Coutances
William the Conqueror
William de Mowbray
King John
Magna Carta
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British Museum
US Congress
Ampleforth College
Christ Church, Oxford

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