Personal Life
Stourton is a descendant of the 19th Baron Stourton and in very distant remainder to this barony presently held by his cousin Edward Stourton, 27th Baron Mowbray. He is the son of Nigel Stourton CBE, who worked for British American Tobacco, and Rosemary Abbott, being brought up near Patrick Brompton.
He first married Margaret McEwen in 1980 in Kensington, the daughter of Sir James Napier Finnie McEwen, a Baronet. They had three children together before divorcing.
He married former colleague Fiona Murch on 8 November 2002 at Chelsea Register Office. She was an editor for BBC2 (producing the Correspondent programme, in which Stourton featured, although he left the programme) with whom he had lived from 2001. They live in Stockwell, London. He is a Roman Catholic and has an extensive knowledge of the Roman Catholic faith.
Stourton has four children: Ivo James Benedict (born 1982), Thomas Edward Alexander (born 1987) and Eleanor Mary Elizabeth (born June 1984) and stepdaughter Rosy. Ivo is a lawyer and author of The Night Climbers (Doubleday 2007) and Tom is a comedian.
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