Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough

Edward Augustus Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough FRS (1736 – 2 January 1801), styled The Honourable from 1763 to 1777 and Viscount Amiens in the latter year, was an Irish peer and Whig politician.

He was the oldest son of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough and his wife Martha O'Neale, daughter of Venerable Benjamin O'Neale, Archdeacon of Leighlin. A descendant of the English Stratford family, his younger brother was Benjamin Stratford, 4th Earl of Aldborough. In 1777, Stratford succeeded his father as earl, and in the same year he was awarded a Doctor of Civil Laws by the University of Oxford. He built Stratford Place in London and Aldborough House in Dublin.

In 1759, he entered the Irish House of Commons for Baltinglass, the same constituency his father also represented, and sat for it until 1768. He was returned for Baltinglass again from 1775 to 1777. In 1774, he was elected to the British House of Commons for Taunton, however was unseated for accusations of bribery. Stratford was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1777, and became Governor of County Wicklow the following year.

On 29 July 1765, he married, firstly, Barbara Herbert, daughter of Hon. Nicholas Herbert, a younger son of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, at St George's, Hanover Square. She died by an apoplexy in 1785, and Stratford married secondly Hon. Anne Elizabeth Henniker, only daughter of John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker at Grosvenor Square on 24 May 1787. Stratford died at Belan House in County Kildare, childless, and was buried at St Thomas's Church, Dublin. He was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother John.

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