Hon.
Amyas
Stafford
Northcote
JP
Born in St Thomas Registration District, Devon, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Walter Stafford Northcote CB JP, Henry Stafford Northcote GCMG GCIE, Mabel Northcote, Agnes Mary Cecilia (Northcote) MacLeod, John Stafford Northcote, Arthur Francis Northcote MA, Hugh Oliver Northcote, Margaret Stafford (Northcote) Shelley and Edward Louis Northcote
Husband of
Helen May (Dudley) Northcote
— married
14 May 1890 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 58
in Hollingbourne Registration District, Kent, England
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Biography
Hon. Amyas Stafford Northcote was born on 25 October 1864, the son of Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Cecilia Frances (Farrer) Northcote. [1]
On the 1871 census, age 6, he is living with his mother, siblings Margaret, Oliver, and Edward, and nine servants in Marylebone, London, England.[2]
On the 1881 census, he is recorded as boarding at Eton College in Buckinghamshire. [3]
He married Helen May Dudley, daughter of James Garrard Dudley, on 14 May 1890.
"Northcote spent some time in the United States, where he married Helen Dudley in 1890, their two children being born in Chicago. Northcote was an investment banker, and a wealthy man; the 1911 census shows him living in a nineteen-room property in Berkhamsted."[4][5]
1901 census: Amyas is recorded with wife Helen, daughter Cecilia (who is recorded as a British Subject, born in USA) plus six servants. Amyas is recorded as a financial agents broker.[6]
He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Buckinghamshire.
He died on 11 May 1923 at age 58. [7]
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| Obituary from The Western Times, 18 May 1923.[8] |
Research Notes
Dudley Stafford Northcote born 28 April 1891 Chicago, Illinois
"Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7MX-YXV : 18 May 2016), Amyas Stafford Northcote in entry for Dudley Stafford Northcote, 28 Apr 1891; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference/certificate 11035, Cook County Clerk, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,912.
Bibliography
In Ghostly Company (1921)
"He wrote articles on various subjects for popular magazines, and one book, 'In Ghostly Company', a collection of ghost stories in the style of M.R. James. When the book went out of print, copies became much prized by afficionados [sic] of the ghost story, until the book was republished by Wordsworth Editions in 2010."[9]
Sources
- ↑ England & Wales birth registration: St Thomas [district], Volume 5b, Page 68, December quarter 1864, mother's maiden name FARRER
- ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRJM-TGN : 9 December 2017), Amyas S Northcote in entry for Cecilia F Northcote, 1871.
- ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27Z-TVX8 : 13 December 2017), Amyas Northcote, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 9, Piece/Folio 1458/115, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,605.
- ↑ wordsworth-editions.com
- ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7V2-C9B : 2 August 2017), Amyas Stafford Northcote, Ashley Green, Berkhamstead, Buckinghamshire, England; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
- ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9YR-7XZ : 8 April 2016), Amyas S Northcote, Asley Green, Buckinghamshire, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Chesham subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
- ↑ England & Wales death registration: Hollingbourn [district], Volume 2a, Page 908, age 58
- ↑ "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-CFNG : 18 March 2018), Hon Amyas Stafford Northcote, 1923.
- ↑ wordsworth-editions.com
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