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{{Short description|British peer and politician}}
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{{infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name         = The Baron Stafford
| honorific_suffix = [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]]
| image        = Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham.jpg
| caption      =
| office       = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)|Pontefract]]
| term_start   = 1830
| term_end     = 1834
| predecessor  = [[Thomas Houldsworth]] <br /> [[Le Gendre Starkie (1799–1865)|Le Gendre Starkie]]
| successor    = [[John Gully]] <br />[[John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough|Viscount Pollington]]
| birth_name   = Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1802|01|02|df=yes}}
| birth_place  =
| death_date   = {{dda|1884|11|30|1802|01|02|df=yes}}
| death_place  = [[Costessey|Costessey Park]], [[Norfolk]]
| alma_mater   = [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]]
| party        = [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
| parents      = [[George Stafford-Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford]]<br />Frances Henrietta Sulyarde
| spouse       = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Julia Barbara Howard|12 February 1829|November 1856|reason=died}}
* {{marriage|Emma Eliza Gerard|12 September 1859}}
}}
| relations    = [[George Jerningham]] (brother)
}}
'''Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford''' [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (2 January 1802 – 30 November 1884), known as '''Henry Jerningham''' until 1824 and styled '''The Honourable Henry Stafford-Jerningham''' between 1824 and 1851, was a British peer and politician.
==Background==
Stafford was the son of [[George Stafford-Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford]], and Frances Henrietta Sulyarde, daughter of Edward Sulyarde of [[Haughley Park]]. His father had succeeded as seventh Baronet of Costessey in 1809.<ref name="BaronStafford"/> After his mother's death in 1832, his father married Elizabeth Caton, second daughter [[Richard Caton (merchant)|Richard Caton]] and Mary Carroll Caton (a daughter of [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]]).<ref name="BaronStafford"/>
In 1821, Henry was admitted to [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=JNNN821HV|name=Jerningham <nowiki>[post Stafford-Jerningham]</nowiki>, Henry Valentine}}</ref> In 1824, his father managed to obtain a reversal of the [[attainder]] of the [[Baron Stafford|barony of Stafford]] (the attainder had been imposed on his ancestor [[William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford|William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford and 1st Baron Stafford]] in 1680). The family assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Stafford at the same time.<ref>Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}</ref>
==Political career==
Stafford was returned as a [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] to Parliament for [[Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)|Pontefract]] at the [[1830 United Kingdom general election|1830 general election]],<ref name="stooks-smith">{{cite book |last=Stooks Smith |first=Henry. |editor=Craig, F. W. S. |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |title=[[The Parliaments of England]] |orig-year=1844-1850 |edition=2nd |year=1973 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-13-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/418 418] }}</ref> a seat he held until the dissolution of [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] in December 1834;<ref>{{Rayment-hc|p|2|date=March 2012}}</ref> he did not stand again at the [[1835 United Kingdom general election|1835 general election]].<ref name="craig1832-1885">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-year=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page=242}}</ref> In 1851 he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the [[House of Lords]].<ref name="Fraser2019">{{cite book |last1=Fraser |first1=Antonia |title=The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829 |date=2019 |publisher=[[Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]] |isbn=9780525564836 |page=263 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bW24DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA263 |access-date=14 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Lord Stafford was twice married. He married firstly Julia Barbara Howard on 12 February 1829. Julia was the second daughter of Elizabeth ([[née]] Maycock) Howard (daughter of William Maycock) and [[Edward Charles Howard]], a younger brother of [[Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk]].<ref name="BaronStafford"/>
After her death in November 1856, he married secondly to Emma Eliza Gerard on 12 September 1859. Emma was a daughter of Frederick Sewallis Gerard and Mary Anne (née Wilkinson) Gerard (daughter of Rev. Thomas Wilkinson).<ref name="BaronStafford">{{cite web |title=Stafford, Baron (E, 1640) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/staffordbaron1640.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=14 November 2019}}</ref>
He died at the family seat of [[Costessey|Costessey Park]], Norfolk, in November 1884, aged 82, and was succeeded in the barony and baronetcy by his nephew, Augustus Frederick Fitzherbert Stafford-Jerningham.<ref name="BaronStafford"/>  After his death, Lady Stafford remarried to Basil Thomas Fitzherbert (father of [[Edward Fitzherbert, 13th Baron Stafford]] from his first marriage),<ref name="Burke's1914">{{cite book |title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage |date=1914 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited |page=1083 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVggAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1083 |access-date=14 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref> before her death in November 1912.<ref name="BaronStafford"/>
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | hon-henry-jerningham | Henry Stafford-Jerningham }}
* [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw117500/Henry-Valentine-Stafford-Jerningham-9th-Baron-Stafford Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford] at the [[National Portrait Gallery, London]].
* Jerningham, Frances Dillon (1896). ''The Jerningham letters (1780-1843) Being excerpts from the correspondence and diaries of the Honourable Lady Jerningham and of her daughter Lady Bedingfeld''. Volume [[iarchive:cu31924088008572|I]] & [[iarchive:cu31924088008580|II]]. Cornell University Library. London, R. Bentley and son.
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| with   = [[Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet|Sir Culling Eardley Smith, Bt]] 1830–1831
| with2  = [[John Savile, 3rd Earl of Mexborough|The Earl of Mexborough]] 1831–1832
| with3  = [[John Gully]] 1832–1834
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