page_title: George Stafford-Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: George Stafford-Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Costessey Hall
context_page_description: George William Stafford-Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford, known as Sir George William Jerningham, 7th Baronet from 1809 to 1824, was a British peer who, in 1824, successfully obtained a reversal of the attainder of the barony of Stafford.
context_section_description: Stafford was born on 27 April 1771. He was the son of eldest son, and heir, of the former Hon. Frances Dillon (1747–1825) and Sir William Jerningham, 6th Baronet (1736–1809) of Cossey Park in Norfolk. His elder sister, Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham, was the wife of Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5th Baronet. He had two younger brothers, William Charles Jerningham (one of his daughters married Edward Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston and another married Sir Edward Charles Blount) and Edward Jerningham, a barrister who served as Secretary for British Catholic Board and designed the St. Augustine Chapel at the family seat, Costessey Hall, which opened the week after their father's death in 1809. Edward married Emily Middleton of London in 1804, with whom he had four children.
  His father was the representative of one of the few remaining families of English Gentry prior to the Conquest, and was descended on his mother's side from King Edward III. His paternal grandparents were Sir George Jerningham, 5th Baronet and the former Marie Françoise "Mary" Plowden (only surviving child of Mary Stafford-Howard and Francis Plowden, Comptroller of the Household James II and James III). His grandmother Mary was the sole heiress of her uncle, John Stafford-Howard, 4th Earl of Stafford (son of Hon. John Stafford-Howard of Stafford Castle, younger son of William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford). His mother was the eldest daughter of Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon and the former Lady Charlotte Lee (second daughter of George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield).
caption: Costessey Hall, seat of the Jerningham family (now demolished), c. 1850
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