Stockmar, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH, BARON, diplomatist, was born of Swedish descent at Coburg, 22d August 1787, studied medicine, and after some service with the army was appointed physician to Prince Leopold of Coburg, ere long to become his secretary and most influential adviser on all questions personal and political. As such he came to England with Leopold when he became the husband of the Princess Charlotte; and he gave Leopold valuable support in the negotiations that issued in making him king of Belgium. He had been ennobled in 1821, and was made a baron in 1831. Leaving Leopold's service in 1834, he became the mentor of Prince Albert of Coburg, and was the trusted friend of the young queen of England and her husband, living sometimes in England and sometimes in Coburg. As representative of Coburg in 1848 at the Diet, he supported Prussia's claim to the headship of the German nation. He died at Coburg, 9th July 1863.
See his Denkwürdigkeiten, edited by his son (Eng. trans. Notabilia, 2 vols. 1872); Juste, Le Baron Stockmar (Brussels, 1873); Sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort; the Greville Memoirs; and for a less favourable view, the Memoirs of King Leopold's moragatic wife, Caroline von Bauer (Eng. trans. 1884).