Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth and 1st Earl of Brentford( c. 1573 – 2 February 1651) was a Scottish nobleman, general, and diplomat.
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
Humphrey( IV) de Bohun( 1204 – 24 September 1275) was 2nd Earl of Hereford and 1st Earl of Essex, as well as Constable of England.
He was the son of Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, and Maud FitzGeoffrey.
James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown
James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown( 1700 – 12 January 1770) was an Irish politician.
Courtown was the son of James Stopford, of Courtown, County Wexford, who represented Wexford County in the Irish House of Commons, and his wife Frances( née Jones).
He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Wexford County in 1721, a seat he held until 1727, and then represented Fethard( County Wexford) from 1727 to 1758.
In 1756 he was appointed High Sheriff of Wexford.
In 1758 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Courtown, of Courtown in the County of Wexford.
Four years later he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Stopford and Earl of Courtown, in the County of Wexford, also in the Peerage of Ireland.
Mary Stopford, Countess of Courtown (died 1810)
Mary Stopford, Countess of Courtown( died 3 January 1810), formerly Mary Powys, was the wife of James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown.
Mary was the daughter of Richard Powys, MP, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk, and his wife, the former Lady Mary Brudenell.
Her sister Elizabeth married Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney.
Following their father's death in 1743, their mother remarried, her second husband being Thomas Bowlby, MP.
Mary married the future earl on 19 April 1762 at St. George's, Hanover Square, when he was an MP representing an Irish constituency.
The earl and countess had four sons:
They also had one daughter, who is not mentioned as living in the countess's obituary.
The countess's portrait was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds
The countess died at her home in Ham Common, Surrey, when" far advanced in life", and was buried at Deene, Northamptonshire.
James Stopford, 4th Earl of Courtown
James Thomas Stopford, 4th Earl of Courtown( 27 March 1794 – 20 November 1858), known as Viscount Stopford from 1810 to 1835, was an Anglo- Irish peer and Tory member of parliament.
Courtown was the third but eldest surviving son of James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown, and his wife Lady Mary( née Scott), and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
He was elected to the House of Commons for County Wexford in 1820, a seat he held until 1830.
In 1835 he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.
He also served as High Sheriff of County Wexford in 1833 and as custos rotulorum of County Wexford from 1845 to 1858.
Lord Courtown married, firstly, his first cousin Lady Charlotte Albina, daughter of Charles Montagu- Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch, in 1822.
They had two sons, James and Edward.
After her death in February 1828, aged 28, he married, secondly, Dorothea( Dora), daughter of Edward Pennefather, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
They had three sons, of whom the two youngest gained distinction.
The Hon. Sir Frederick Stopford was a lieutenant general in the Army and the Hon. Walter George Stopford( 1855–1918) was a Rear- Admiral in the Royal Navy.
Lord Courtown died in November 1858, aged 64, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son from his first marriage, James.
Lady Courtown survived her husband by just over a year and died in December 1859.
James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown
James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown KP, PC( Ire)( 28 May 1731 – 30 March 1810), 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.
Courtown was the eldest son of James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown, and his wife Elizabeth( née Smith), and was educated at Trinity College Dublin.
He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Taghmon in 1761, a seat he held until 1768, and later sat as a Member of the British House of Commons for Great Bedwyn in 1774 and for Marlborough from 1780 to 1793.
Between 1784 and 1793 he served as Treasurer of the Household under William Pitt the Younger.
Courtown was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 and admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1784.
In 1796 he was further honoured when he was created Baron Saltersford, of Saltersford in the County of Chester, in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Lord Courtown married
Mary, daughter of Richard Powys, in 1762.
They had four sons, who all gained 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 Majesty Queen Victoria.
Lady Courtown died in January 1810.
Lord Courtown only survived her by three months and died in March 1810, aged 78.
He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son James, who also became a prominent Tory politician.
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford and 2nd Earl of Lindsay( April 1644 – 6 March 1698) was a Scottish noble and politician.
Lindsay was the eldest son of John Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 17th Earl of Crawford, and 1st Earl of Lindsay, by his wife, Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of the Earl of Haddington.
William succeeded to the earldoms in 1678.
He was a zealous Presbyterian, president of the Convention parliament in 1689, a commissioner of the treasury in 1690, and one of the commissioners for settling the government of the Church of Scotland.
He married firstly Lady Mary Johnstone, daughter of 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, in 1670.
They had one son:
He married secondly Lady Henrietta Fleming, daughter of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and widow of 5th Earl of Wigtown, and had further issue.
Henry Stopford
The fifth son of James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown and his wife Mary, daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, he was born at Dalkeith.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1817, graduating M.A. in 1819.
He became rector of Clonmore, County Carlow in 1824 and of Killeban( now Killabban, County Laois) in 1826.
Abraham Bockee
Abraham Bockee (February 3, 1784 – June 1, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of March
Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox then 1st Earl of March( c. 152229 March 1586) was a Scottish nobleman of the family of Stewart of Darnley.

Question: Who died first, James Stopford, 1St Earl Of Courtown or Abraham Bockee?
Answer: James Stopford, 1St Earl Of Courtown