Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh

Who was Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh?

Stafford Henry Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh, 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 and stepdaughter of Sir Pownoll Irving Edward Pellew, 9th Viscount Exmouth, on July 20, 1955. They had two children, John Stafford Northcote, 5th Earl of Iddesleigh and Lady Mary Louise Northcote.