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'''Francis Edward Fitzherbert-Stafford, 12th Baron Stafford''', [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (28 August 1859 – 18 September 1932) was an [[England|English]] [[peerage|peer]] and [[British Army]] officer, holding the title [[Baron Stafford]]. His lifetime marked the point where the Stafford barony first came into contact with ''Fitzherbert'' as a surname.
==Background==
Francis Edward's father was Basil Thomas Fitzherbert and his mother was Emily Charlotte Stafford-Jerningham. It was through his mother's side of the family that he gained the Stafford barony; his uncle [[Fitzherbert Edward Stafford-Jerningham, 11th Baron Stafford]] had died without issue in 1913. Fitzherbert-Stafford also descended from [[Genoa|Genoese]] nobility as his great grandfather was [[John Vincent Gandolfi, 12th Marquis Gandolfi]]. A [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]], he was educated at [[Beaumont College]], [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]].
==Military Career and Public Offices==
Fitzherbert was commissioned in 1877 into the [[1st Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own)]], which from 1881 became the [[3rd (1st Royal Lancashire Militia) Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)]]. He was promoted to [[Major (British Army)|major]] on 5 February 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27164|page=1003| date=13 February 1900|}}</ref> and the following week left with the battalion to serve in the [[Second Boer War]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War - Embarcation of Troops|date=13 February 1900 |page=11 |issue=36064}}</ref> He fought in South Africa from his arrival in March 1900 to 1902, and was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) in 1900.<ref name=CompPeerage>{{cite book|title=The Complete Peerage, Volume XII|year=1953|publisher=St Catherine's Press|page=198}}</ref> He became honorary [[Lieutenant-colonel (British Army)|lieutenant-colonel]] in 1901, and renounced his militia commission in 1903. He was also commissioned into his native county's [[Staffordshire Yeomanry]] in 1885, and promoted Major in that regiment in 1898.
In the [[First World War]] he served purely on home defence duties, becoming Colonel commanding the Staffordshire Volunteer Regiment of the [[Volunteer Training Corps (World War I)|Volunteer Training Corps]].<ref name=CompPeerage />
He was a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] and [[Justice of the Peace]] for Staffordshire and hereditary Lord High Steward of the Borough of Stafford.<ref name="Kelly's">{{cite book|title=Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1931|publisher=Kelly's|page=1595}}</ref>
==Marriage and later life==
On 20 April 1903 Fitzherbert-Stafford married Dorothy Hilda Worthington, the daughter of [[Albert Octavius Worthington]]. Together the two did not parent any children. He died at the family seat of [[Swynnerton Hall]] at age 73.
==Notes==
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==References==
*"[http://www.thepeerage.com/p7521.htm#i75203 Francis Edward Fitzherbert, 12th Baron Stafford]". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
*{{cite book|author=Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval |title=The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England. The Clarence volume |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9UYYThhRIQC |year=1994 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing |isbn=978-0-8063-1432-7}}
*"[http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=83175 Francis Edward Fitzherbert-Stafford, 12th Baron Stafford]". GeneAll.net. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
*"[http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=385350 Fitzherbert Stafford-Jerningham, 11th Baron Stafford]". GeneAll.net. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
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