Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys (1797–1881) was a British
peer, previously a member of Parliament. He was the son of another Thomas Stonor and Katherine Blundell, daughter of the art collector
Henry Blundell.
Career
In 1817, he went to study at Paris University.
Thomas Stonor sat as a
Member of Parliament
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for
Oxford
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from 1832 to 1833 and was
High Sheriff of Oxfordshire
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for 1836.
He succeeded to his title in 1839, after
Queen Victoria
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terminated its abeyance in his favour. He was the appointed Lord-in-Waiting to
the Queen
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from 1846 to 1852, 1853–1858, 1859–1866, and finally from 1868 to 1874.
Family
Thomas married Frances
Towneley on 25 July 1821. They had the following issue:
* Charlotte (1822–1875), nun;
* Catherine (1823–1907), unmarried;
* Thomas (1824–1865), married Catherine Coulthurst, no issue;
* Francis (1829–1881), married Eliza Peel (a daughter of British Prime Minister
Robert Peel
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), their eldest son was
Francis Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys
Francis Robert Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys (9 December 1856 – 14 July 1897) was a British aristocrat who served as Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria.
Early life
Francis Robert Stonor was born on 9 December 1856 in Oxfordshire, England. He was th ...
;
* Eliza (1830–1860), married Henry Silvertop;
*
Edmund
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, a Catholic archbishop;
* Maria (1832–1914), married
Charles Smythe, 7th Baronet;
* Agnes (1833–1887);
* Harriet (1836–1914), married
Leopold Agar-Ellis, 5th Viscount Clifden
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, had issue;
* Caroline (1837–?), nun;
* Margaret (1839–1894), married Edward Pereira, had issue;
* Eleanor (1842–1886), nun;
They also had three other short-lived, unnamed children.
Death
Baron Camoys died on 18 January 1881. As his eldest son, Francis, had died a week before him, he was succeeded by his grandson, another
Francis
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* Rural M ...
.
Line of descent from earlier Baron de Camoys
*
Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys
Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys (c. 1351 – 28 March 1421), KG, of Trotton in Sussex, was an English peer who commanded the left wing of the English army at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
Origins
Thomas de Camoys was the son of Sir John ...
(m. Elizabeth Louches)
**Sir Richard de Camoys (m. Joan Poynings)
***
Hugh de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys
***Margaret de Camoys (m. Ralph Radmylde)
****Margaret Radmylde (m. John Goring)
*****John Goring (m. Joan Hewster)
******John Goring (m. Constance Dyke)
*******William Goring (m. Elizabeth Covert)
********Henry Goring (m. Dorothy Everard)
*********William Goring (m. Ann Burbridge)
**********Henry Goring (m. Eleanor Kingsmill)
***********
Sir William Goring, 1st Baronet (m. Eleanor Francis)
************Sir Henry Goring, 2nd Baronet (m. Mary Chamberlain)
*************Ann Goring (m. Richard Biddulph)
**************John Biddulph (m. Mary Arundell)
***************Mary Biddulph (m. Thomas Stonor (1710–1772))
****************Charles Stonor (1737–1781) (m. Mary Blount)
*****************Thomas Stonor (1766–1831) (m. Catherine Blundell)
******************Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys
Ancestry
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles and Williamson, David. "Camoys, Baron (Stonor) (Baron E 1383)." Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 1995. London: Debrett's Peerage Limited, 1995. p. 208,
*Bence-Jones, Mark. ''The Catholic Families''. London: Constable, 1992
External links
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1797 births
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