Personal Life
Stokes married firstly, on 23 December 1939, Barbara (d. 1988), younger daughter of R. E. Yorke of Wellingborough, by whom he had one son and two daughters. Secondly, he married, 21 January 1989, Mrs Elsie F.Plowman (d. 1990). Thirdly, he married Ruth, widow of Sir Timothy Bligh (who had been secretary to Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister), which marriage was dissolved in 1996. In the latter year he married fourthly Frances, widow of Lieutenant-Commander Donald Packham.
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