James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown KP, PC, known as Viscount Stopford from 1762 to 1770, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1774 and 1793.
A portrait of his sons; Robert, Edward and James. (Samuel Shelley, 1774)
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford was a Royal Navy officer and politician whose career spanned over 60 years, from the French Revolutionary Wars to the Egyptian–Ottoman War.
James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown
…distinction, and a daughter. Their second son the Hon. Sir Edward Stopford (1766–1837) was a Lieutenant-General in the Army. Their third son the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford (1768–1874) was an Admiral of the Red. Their fourth son Reverend the Hon. Richard Bruce Stopford (1774–1844) was Canon of Windsor and Chaplain to Her…
Portrait by Frederick Richard Say, c. 1840
Robert Stopford, c.1790-91, by Henry William Beechey, in the collection of the National Maritime Museum
HMS Phoenix at the bombardment of Acre
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery