The title of Earl of Courtown was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1762. The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Stopford (1762) and Baron Courtown (1758) in the Peerage of Ireland, and before 1999 sat in the House of Lords as Baron Saltersford in the Peerage of Great Britain (1796).

Earls of Courtown (1762)

• James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown (1700-1770)
• James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown (1731-1810)
• James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown (1765-1835)
• James Thomas Stopford, 4th Earl of Courtown (1794-1858)
• James George Henry Stopford, 5th Earl of Courtown (1823-1914)
• James Walter Milles Stopford, 6th Earl of Courtown (1853-1933)
• James Richard Neville Stopford, 7th Earl of Courtown (1877-1957)
• James Montagu Burgoyne Stopford, 8th Earl of Courtown (1908-1975)
• James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown (b. 1954)