Naval Career
Edward's father was Basil Thomas Fitzherbert and his mother was Emily Charlotte Stafford-Jerningham. He joined the Royal Navy in 1877. Promoted to Captain in 1904, he was given command of the battleship HMS Albemarle, of the training ship HMS Impegnable and then of the armoured cruiser HMS Bedford which ran aground during sea trials in 1910.
He served in World War I as Director of Mines and Torpedoes from October 1915 and as Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station from May 1918. He became a full Admiral on retirement in 1925.
It was through his mother's side of the family that he gained the Stafford barony in 1932; his brother Francis Fitzherbert-Stafford, 12th Baron Stafford had died without issue in 1932. Fitzherbert-Stafford also descended from Genoese nobility as his great grandfather was John Vincent Gandolfi, 12th Marquis Gandolfi. Fitzherbert did not marry and died without issue, the barony thus passed on to his nephew Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford. He died at the family seat of Swynnerton Hall at age 77.
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