Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh

Stafford Henry Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh (14 July 1932 – 8 July 2004), styled Viscount St Cyres until 1970, was a British peer.

Styled Viscount St Cyres from birth, he was the only child of Henry Northcote, 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh, and his wife Elizabeth Susan Angela Mary Lowndes, and the grandson of the Reverend John Stafford Northcote, a younger son of Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh. Educated at Downside School, Northcote succeeded his father in the earldom in 1970.

Lord Iddesleigh married María Luisa Álvarez-Builla y Urquijo, born 1934, daughter of Gonzalo Álvarez-Builla y Alvera and María Luisa de Urquijo y Losada (daughter of Luis Cayetano de Urquijo y Ussía, 1. Marqués de Amurrio and María Teresa Losada y González de Villalaz, 5. Marquesa de Otero) and stepdaughter of Sir Pownoll Irving Edward Pellew, 9th Viscount Exmouth, on 20 July 1955. They had two children, John Stafford Northcote, 5th Earl of Iddesleigh (born 1957) and Lady Mary Louise Northcote (born 1959).

Styles of address

• 1932-1970: Viscount St Cyres
• 1970-2004: The Right Honourable The Fourth Earl of Iddesleigh^{[lower-alpha 1]}

1. Although The Earl of Iddesleigh is the 11th Northcote Baronet of Hayne, by custom the post-nominal of Bt is omitted, since Peers of the Realm do not list subsidiary hereditary titles.

References

• Who's Who, 2004 (A. & C. Black Ltd, London, 2004)
• 4th Earl of Iddesleigh at thepeerage.com

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Iddesleigh