Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft
- Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft
Stormont Mancroft Samuel Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft KBE (27 July, 1914 - 14 September, 1987), was a British Conservative politician.
Mancroft was the son of Arthur Michael Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft, and Phoebe Fletcher. In 1925 he assumed by deed poll the surname of Mancroft. He served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the Croix de Guerre. After the war he served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden as a government whip from 1952 to 1954 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1954 to 1957. When Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister in January 1957, Mancroft was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence, Duncan Sandys, a post he held until June the same year, and was then Minister without Portfolio from 1957 to 1958.
Lord Mancroft married Diana Elizabeth Lloyd, daughter of Horace Lloyd and wife, in 1951. They had one son and two daughters. He died in September 1987, aged 73, and was succeeded by his only son Benjamin. Their daughter the Hon. Victoria Lucinda Mancroft married Prince Frederick Nicholas (born 3 May 1946), son of Prince Frederick of Prussia.
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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