Baron Camoys
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, both times by writ. The first creation came in 1264 when Ralph de Camoys was summoned to Parliament as Lord Camoys. This creation is considered to have become extinct on the death of his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, in 1372.
The second creation came in 1383 when Sir Thomas de Camoys
Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys
Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys, KG , was an English peer and soldier.De Camoys was the son of Sir John de Camoys. In August 1383 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Camoys. He fought in the Hundred Years' War and commanded the left wing of the English Army at the Battle of Agincourt...
was summoned to the House of Lords
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as Lord Camoys. He is said to have been the grandson of the third Baron of the 1264 creation and the nephew of the fourth Baron, and according to some sources is considered as the fifth Baron (for example, The Dictionary of National Biography). However, the 1383 barony is according to most sources (among them Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage) considered as a new creation. Thomas de Camoys was a soldier and notably commanded the left wing of the English Army at the Battle of Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt
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in 1415 during the Hundred Years' War
Hundred Years' War
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He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. He died in 1426 at an early age and on his death the barony fell into abeyance
Abeyance
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between his sisters Margaret and Alianora. The peerage remained in abeyance for the next 413 years. However, in 1839 Thomas Stonor managed to claim the barony as a descendant of Margaret de Camoys, and became the third Baron. He had previously represented Oxford
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in the House of Commons
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and later held office as a Lord-in-Waiting
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(government whip in the House of Lords) in the Liberal
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administrations of Lord John Russell
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, Lord Palmerston
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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and William Ewart Gladstone
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as well as in the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
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. He was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Baron, who served as a Lord-in-Waiting in the Liberal governments of William Gladstone and Lord Rosebery
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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. the title is held by his great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his father in 1976. He notably served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1998 and 2000.
The ancestral seat of the Stonor family is Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames
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, Oxfordshire
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Barons Camoys, First creation (1264)
- Ralph de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys (d. 1277)
- John de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys (1251–1299)
- Ralph de Camoys, 3rd Baron Camoys (d. 1340)
- Thomas de Camoys, 4th Baron Camoys (d. 1372)
Barons Camoys, Second creation (1383)
- Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron CamoysThomas de Camoys, 1st Baron CamoysThomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys, KG , was an English peer and soldier.De Camoys was the son of Sir John de Camoys. In August 1383 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Camoys. He fought in the Hundred Years' War and commanded the left wing of the English Army at the Battle of Agincourt...
(d. 1419) - Hugh de Camoys, 2nd Baron CamoysHugh de Camoys, 2nd Baron CamoysHugh de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys succeeded his grandfather Thomas de Camoys as Baron in 1419.The second Baron had no children, so the title went into abeyance between his sisters Margaret and Alianora. The title was called out of abeyance in 1839 for Thomas Stonor, a descendant of...
(1413–1426) (abeyant 1426) - Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron CamoysThomas Stonor, 3rd Baron CamoysThomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys was a British MP and member of the peerage.Thomas Stonor sat as a Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1832–1833 and was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1836....
(1797–1881) (abeyance terminated 1839) - Francis Robert Stonor, 4th Baron CamoysFrancis Stonor, 4th Baron CamoysFrancis Robert Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys was the son of the Honorable Francis Stonor, himself the second son of the third Baron.The fourth Baron was Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1886 and again from 1892-1895....
(1856–1897) - Ralph Francis Julian Stonor, 5th Baron CamoysRalph Stonor, 5th Baron CamoysRalph Francis Julian Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys was the son of Francis Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys and Jessie Philippa Carew, daughter of Robert Russell Carew.The fifth baron married Mildred Sherman, the daughter of William Watts Sherman, in 1911....
(1884–1968) - Sherman Stonor, 6th Baron CamoysSherman Stonor, 6th Baron CamoysSherman Stonor, 6th Baron Camoys was an English aristocrat and Justice of the Peace.-Biography:He was born in 1913, the only son of Ralph Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys and Mildred Sherman, daughter of William Watts Sherman....
(1913–1976) - Ralph Thomas Campion George Sherman Stonor, 7th Baron CamoysRalph Stonor, 7th Baron CamoysRalph Thomas Campion George Sherman Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, , was Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2000...
(b. 1940)
The heir apparent
Heir apparent
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is the present holder's son the Hon. Ralph William Stonor (b. 1974)