| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Mancroft | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | KBE TD |
| Office1: | Minister without Portfolio |
| Primeminister1: | Harold Macmillan |
| Term Start1: | 11 June 1957 |
| Term End1: | 23 October 1958 |
| Predecessor1: | The Earl of Munster |
| Successor1: | The Earl of Dundee |
| Office2: | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence |
| Primeminister2: | Harold Macmillan |
| Term Start2: | 10 January 1957 |
| Term End2: | 11 June 1957 |
| Predecessor2: | The Earl of Gosford |
| Successor2: | Office vacant |
| Office3: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs |
| Primeminister3: | Winston Churchill Anthony Eden |
| Term Start3: | 18 October 1954 |
| Term End3: | 9 January 1957 |
| Predecessor3: | The Lord Lloyd |
| Successor3: | Patricia Hornsby-Smith |
| Office4: | Lord-in-waiting Government Whip |
| Primeminister4: | Winston Churchill |
| Term Start4: | 15 December 1952 |
| Term End4: | 18 October 1954 |
| Predecessor4: | The Lord Lloyd |
| Successor4: | The Lord Fairfax of Cameron |
| Office14: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start14: | 15 August 1942 |
| Term End14: | 14 September 1987 Hereditary peerage |
| Predecessor14: | The 1st Baron Mancroft |
| Successor14: | The 3rd Baron Mancroft |
| Birth Date: | 27 July 1914 |
| Death Date: | 14 September 1987 (aged 73) |
| Party: | Conservative |
Stormont Mancroft Samuel Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft (27 July 1914 – 14 September 1987), born Stormont Mancroft Samuel,[1] was a British Conservative politician.
Mancroft was the son of Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft, and Phoebe Fletcher. In 1925 he assumed by deed poll the surname "Mancroft". He was educated at Winchester College, Kingsgate House (K), Christ Church, Oxford, obtaining a law degree, and Bonn University, where he studied music. In 1938 he became a barrister at the Inner Temple.[2] He served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British 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.
He was a frequent contributor of humorous articles to Punch magazine and other publications. Three books of his articles have been published:
Over half of the third book consists of material published in the previous two books.
Lord Mancroft married Diana Lloyd, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Lloyd, on 8 May 1951. They have three children:
Diana Lloyd was married before to Richard Bridges St. John Quarry. They have two daughters: Venetia, Mrs Frederick Barker, then Viscountess Wimborne (born 1942),[6] and Miranda, Countess of Stockton (1947–2020).
| Escutcheon: | Gules a chevron chequy Argent and Sable between in chief two portcullises chained Or and in base a representation of Farnham Castle triple towered Or on a chief Or a lion passant guardant Sable. |
| Crest: | In front of a representation of Norwich Castle with three cupolas issuant from each a staff Proper flying therefrom a banner Argent charged with a cross Gules a sword sheathed Gules garnished Or pommelled and hilted Or and a mace Gold in saltire (i.e. a representation of the ancient Crystal Mace and the Sword in the Regalia of the Corporation of the City of Norwich). |
| Supporters: | On either side a whiffler of the Corporation of the City of Norwich Proper.[7] |
| Motto: | COURAGE, PATIENCE |
. Booking the Cooks. 1969. K. Mason. 135. Stormont Mancroft. Stormont_Mancroft,_2nd_Baron_Mancroft.
. A Chinaman in My Bath, and Other Pieces. 1974. Bachman & Turner. 9780859740104. 188. Stormont Mancroft. Stormont_Mancroft,_2nd_Baron_Mancroft.
. Bees in some Bonnets. 1979. Bachman & Turner. 214. Stormont Mancroft. Stormont_Mancroft,_2nd_Baron_Mancroft.