Francis Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys

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Francis Robert Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys (* 9. December 1856 ; † 14. July 1897 in Mayfair , London ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party , which in 1881 the title of Baron Camoys inherited and thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) was.

Life

Stonor was the eldest of four children of Francis Stonor and his wife Eliza Peel, a daughter of former Prime Minister Robert Peel . His younger brother Harry Julian Stonor was Deputy Master of the Household between 1918 and 1921 and Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit from 1924 until his death in 1939 . His younger sister Julia Caroline Stonor was the wife of Pierre Louis Leopold d'Hautpoul, Marquis d'Hautpoul de Seyre, while his youngest brother Edward Alexander Stonor served as a major in the Royal Flying Corps and most recently in the Royal Air Force (RAF).

He served as a lieutenant in the Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry and became deputy on September 26, 1879 Lord Lieutenant of the County of Oxfordshire . He inherited the title of 4th Baron Camoys on January 18, 1881 from his grandfather Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys , because his father Francis Stonor had died eight days earlier on January 10, 1881. With the inheritance of the title of 4th Baron Camoys, Francis Stonor also became a member of the House of Lords.

In the third cabinet of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, he held the function of Lord-in-Waiting for the first time between February 1 and July 25, 1886 . In the fourth Gladstone cabinet and in the cabinet of Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , he served from August 15, 1892 to June 21, 1895 again as Lord-in-Waiting .

Baron Camoys married on September 14, 1881 in St. Mary of the Angels in Bayswater Jessica Philippa Carew, the father Robert Russell Carew worked as a merchant in British India . From this marriage four sons were born. The eldest son Ralph Francis Julian Stonor inherited the title of 5th Baron Camoys when he died as a result of an operation on July 14, 1897 and became a member of the House of Lords on January 26, 1905 when he reached the age of 21. The second eldest son, Edward Maurice Stonor, served as a major in the 4th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment . The third son, Hugo Robert William Stonor, was initially a lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps and later in the diplomatic service. The youngest son Howard Carew Stonor also served as a lieutenant in the 4th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment and died on March 10, 1915 in the First World War .

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24770, HMSO, London, October 14, 1879, p. 5877 ( PDF , accessed June 3, 2017, English).
  2. ↑ The title of Baron Camoys was awarded for the first time in 1313 and for the second time in 1383 in the Peerage of England , but was in a so-called Abeyance until 1839 , because the last title holder Hugh de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys, had only female heirs. In 1839 the title was restituted after a successful petition in favor of Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys.
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Stonor Baron Camoys
1881-1897 		Ralph Stonor
personal data
SURNAME Stonor, Francis, 4th Baron Camoys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stonor, Francis Robert, 4th Baron Camoys (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1856
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1897
Place of death Mayfair , London