# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-stopford-9th-earl-of-courtown
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:03:12.390Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-stopford-9th-earl-of-courtown"
name: "Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown"
slug: "patrick-stopford-9th-earl-of-courtown"
description: "James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown, styled Viscount Stopford between 1957 and 1975, is an Irish peer and former politician. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999 and continued to sit for the Conservatives. In May 2026, it was announced that he was to be given one of 26 new life peerages, returning him to the House of Lords after the coming into force of the House of Lords Act 2026."
tagline: "Irish peer and politician (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_The_Earl_of_Courtown_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.4
  momentum:             7.482789938530793
  historical:           5.708462666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stopford%2C_9th_Earl_of_Courtown"
    title: "Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B9"
    title: "باتريك ستوبفورد ايرل كورتاون التاسع"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stopford%2C_9._Earl_of_Courtown"
    title: "Patrick Stopford, 9. Earl of Courtown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_9-%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Стопфорд, Патрик, 9-й граф Кортаун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stopford"
    title: "Patrick Stopford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stopford_(9._hrabia_Courtown)"
    title: "James Stopford (9. hrabia Courtown)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q280260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump