The Honourable W. G. S. Jerningham
(1812-1874)
21 July 1862

Volume 8. page 283, sitting number 10,754.

Born 15 July 1812 at Cossey Hall in Norwich, the Honourable William George Stafford Jerningham was a younger son of Sir George William Stafford Jerningham (1771-1851), 8th Baron Stafford, and his wife Frances Henrietta née Sulyarde.

On 12 April 1860 he married Eglantina Narcissa Elmore, daughter of Frederick Augustus Elmore.

From 1 December 1857 he was Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republic of Peru, and from 12 December 1873 until his death he was Minister Resident and Consul-General there. 

He died, aged 62, at Southampton on 16 July 1874.

An obituary appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette (20 July 1874). 'The death is announced of the Hon. William Stafford Jerningham, fifth son of the late Lord Stafford. Mr Jerningham, who died on Thursday last at Southampton, was born in 1812. He entered the diplomatic service as attaché at Munich in 1834, being transferred to Berlin in the same year and to Vienna two years later. From 1839 to 1850 he served as paid attaché at the Hague, and in the latter year became the secretary to the legation at Rio de Janeiro, where he remained until 1857, filling the post of chargé d'affaires twice during that period. In 1857 Mr Jerningham became chargé d'affaires and consul-general in Lima, a post which he held until 1872, when he was appointed her Majesty's Minister resident and consul-general to the Republic of Peru. Mr Jerningham married in 1860 a daughter of Mr F. A. Elmore of Lima, Peru.'