Peerage Record – 3794

     Dr. Benjamin George MacDowell graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)¹ He lived at Merrion Square, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland^G.¹

     Evelyn Emma Stopford was born on 16 July 1858.¹ She was the daughter of Robert Stopford and Matilda Caroline Birch Reynardson.¹ She married Walter Copland Perry on 12 November 1889.¹
     Her married name became Perry.

     Walter Copland Perry married Evelyn Emma Stopford, daughter of Robert Stopford and Matilda Caroline Birch Reynardson, on 12 November 1889.¹ He died in December 1911.¹
     He was a practising barrister.¹

     Evelyn Walter Copland Perry was born on 4 December 1890.¹ He was the son of Walter Copland Perry and Evelyn Emma Stopford.¹ He died on 16 August 1914 at age 23 at France^G, killed in action He was supposedly the first British officer killed in the First World War.¹
     He fought in the First World War.¹ He gained the rank of officer in the Royal Flying Corps.¹

     Rt. Hon. Edward Pennefather was born on 22 October 1774.² He was the son of William Pennefather and Eleanor Moore.^3,2 He married Susannah Darby, daughter of John Darby and Anne Vaughan, on 6 January 1806.⁴ He died on 6 September 1847 at age 72.⁴
     He held the office of Lord Chief Justice of the Court of the Queen’s Bench [Ireland].⁴

     Harold Dart lived at Cefn, Murch Road, Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, Wales^G.¹

     Major James Richard Neville Stopford, 7th Earl of Courtown was born on 16 September 1877.¹ He was the son of James Walter Milles Stopford, 6th Earl of Courtown and Hon. Catherine Elizabeth Neville.¹ He married Cicely Mary Birch, daughter of John Arden Birch and Charlotte Mary Leycester Stopford, on 26 April 1905 at Trinity Church, Brompton, London, England^G.¹ He died on 25 January 1957 at age 79.¹
     He fought in the Boer War between 1900 and 1901.³ He fought in the First World War in 1914, where he was mentioned in despatches.³ He held the office of Mayor of Aylesbury between 1927 and 1928.³ He succeeded as the 7th Earl of Courtown, co. Wexford [I., 1762] on 18 July 1933.¹ He succeeded as the 7th Viscount Stopford [I., 1762] on 18 July 1933.¹ He succeeded as the 6th Baron Saltersford, of Saltersford, co. Chester [G.B., 1796] on 18 July 1933.¹ He succeeded as the 7th Baron Courtown, co. Wexford [I., 1758] on 18 July 1933.¹ He gained the rank of Staff Captain in the War Office.³ He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of County Wexford.³ He sold Kiltenell in 1951 to Nessie Gibbon.⁴ He was appointed Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)³

     Lt.-Col. Hon. Edward Stopford was born on 11 June 1795.¹ He was the son of James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown and Lady Mary Scott.¹ He married Horatia Charlotte Lockwood, daughter of Thomas Lockwood, on 5 July 1830.¹ He died on 5 July 1840 at age 45.¹
     He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards.¹

     Horatia Charlotte Lockwood was the daughter of Thomas Lockwood.¹ She married, firstly, Richard Tibbets before 1830.¹ She married, secondly, Lt.-Col. Hon. Edward Stopford, son of James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown and Lady Mary Scott, on 5 July 1830.¹ She died on 9 February 1838.¹
     From before 1830, her married name became Tibbets.¹ Her married name became Stopford.