Stratford (surname)

The House of Stratford is a British Noble House, originating in Stratford-on-Avon between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The surname is an Anglo-Saxon territorial name, a combination of the Old English strǣt (from Latin stratum), meaning 'street', ford, indicating a shallow part of a river or stream, allowing it to be crossed by walking or driving.[1]

The people listed below do not necessarily belong to the aristocratic family.

• John de Stratford (c. 1275 – 1348), Bishop of Winchester, Lord High Treasurer, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Robert de Stratford (c. 1292 – 9 April 1362), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Chancellor, Archdeacon of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester
• Henry de Stratford Greater Clerk of the Royal Chancery under Edward III
• Ralph de Stratford (c. 1300 – 1354), also known as Ralph Hatton of Stratford, Bishop of London
• Thomas de Stratford (died June 12, 1396) Senior Proctor of Oxford University, Archdeacon of Gloucester, Prior of Caldwell
• Andrew de Stratford (died 1399), Bishop and landowner
• John Stratford (c. 1582 – c. 1634) Merchant and entrepreneur, a significant grower of tobacco in the Cotswolds
• Nicholas Stratford (1633–1707), Bishop of Chester
• John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough (c. 1691 – 1777)
• Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough (died 1801)
• John Stratford, 3rd Earl of Aldborough (c. 1740 – 1823)
• Benjamin O'Neale Stratford, 4th Earl of Aldborough (died 1833)
• Henry Stratford Persse (died 1833), Irish writer
• Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe KG GCB PC (1786–1880), a diplomat and politician, best known as the longtime British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
• William Samuel Stratford (22 May 1789 – 29 March 1853), English astronomer
• Alfred Stratford (5 September 1853 – 2 May 1914), English national footballer and cricketer
• Brigadier-General Cecil Wingfield-Stratford CB, CMG (1853–1939) a British Army officer in the Royal Engineers and an English international footballer
• Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971) an English historian, writer, mind-trainer, outdoorsman, patriot and ruralist
• Sir William Stratford Dugdale, 2nd Baronet (born 1922), Aston Villa chairman
• Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), English stage, film and television actor
• Graham Stratford (born 1930), English farmer, local politician and agriculturist from Alton, Hampshire.
• Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (8 April 1942 – 8 January 2006), British Labour Party politician
• Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale FRSA (born 1974), British documentary film-maker
• Brice Stratford (born 1987), Shakespearean actor-manager