Charles Edward Stourton, Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton
(1923-2006), Company director and politicianSitter in 1 portrait
Charles Stourton was the head of one of the oldest Roman Catholic families in the country. Stourton served in the Second World War, where he lost an eye. Invalided out of the Army, he ran a pig farm on the family estate at Knaresborough. As the last surviving direct descendant of one of the twenty-five signatories of the Magna Carta, he was invited in 1976 to join a British parliamentary delegation which presented one of the four copies of the document held in the British Museum to the American Congress in Washington. On inheriting his titles, Stourton became a popular member of the House of Lords where he served as a Tory Whip for thirteen years and as a Government spokesman on the Environment.
Charles Edward Stourton, Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton
by Nick Sinclair
bromide print, 1992
NPG P563(30)
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