Baron Stamp, of
Shortlands in the
County of Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces the ...
, is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great ...
.
It was created in 1938 for the civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker,
Sir Josiah Stamp. The second Baron, Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, holds the record for having held a peerage for the shortest length of time. On 16 April 1941, the first Baron Stamp was killed by a German bomb, as was his son Wilfred. Legally, the son was presumed to have died a fraction of a second after his father, and therefore is supposed to have succeeded to the title for that short amount of time. The second Baron was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baron. the title is held by the latter's grandson, the fifth Baron.
Barons Stamp (1938)
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Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp (1880–1941)
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Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp (1904–1941)
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Trevor Charles Stamp, 3rd Baron Stamp (1907–1987)
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Trevor Charles Bosworth Stamp, 4th Baron Stamp (1935–2022)
*Nicholas Charles Trevor Stamp, 5th Baron Stamp (b. 1978)
The
heir apparent
An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...
is the present holder's son the Hon. Leo Charles Xie Stamp (b. 2021).
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1938