Augustus Stafford

Augustus Stafford (22 June 1811 – 15 November 1857), also known as Augustus Stafford O'Brien-Stafford, was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician.

Augustus Stafford

Biography

Stafford was born in Walcot, Lincolnshire in 1811.[1] He was the son of Stafford O'Brien and his wife Emma, daughter of Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet. His name initially was Augustus Stafford O'Brien.[2]

He sat as a Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire North from 1841 until his early death in 1857. He was Secretary to the Admiralty under the Duke of Northumberland in Lord Derby's 1852 government.[3]

He was an active member of the Canterbury Association which he joined on 27 March 1848. He died on 15 November 1857 in Dublin, Ireland.[1]

References
  1. Bain, Rev. Michael (2007). The Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections (PDF). Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 76–77. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. Burke, Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 1300.
  3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Viscount Maidstone and
Thomas Philip Maunsell		 Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire North
1841–1857
With: Thomas Philip Maunsell		 Succeeded by
Lord Burghley and
George Ward Hunt
Political offices
Preceded by
John Parker		 First Secretary of the Admiralty
1852		 Succeeded by
Ralph Bernal Osborne


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