page_title: Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Swynnerton Hall
context_page_description: Basil Francis Nicholas Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford was an English soldier, landowner, and peer, a member of the House of Lords for almost forty years.
context_section_description: The son of Captain Thomas Charles Fitzherbert and Helen Beryl Frances Waters, the young Fitzherbert was educated at Ampleforth College and succeeded his uncle as Baron Stafford on 28 September 1941, while still at school. With the Second World War ongoing, he received officer training and was commissioned into the Scots Guards, and was a Lieutenant by 1944. After the war, he began to manage his estate, based at Swynnerton Hall, Stone, Staffordshire, in 1947 took his seat in the House of Lords, and then continued his education at St John's College, Cambridge.
  In 1951, he failed his First Public Examination in Agriculture for a second time, and his tutor noted “...his main failing being that he does not recognize the need to learn things”. 
  Stafford later became a local director of Barclays Bank.
caption: Swynnerton Hall
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