Baron de Saumarez, in the Island of Guernsey

Guernsey

Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created on 15 September 1831 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir James Saumarez, 1st Baronet

James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez

Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez , GCB was an admiral of the British Royal Navy, notable for his victory at the Battle of Algeciras.-Early life:...

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Guernsey, on 13 June 1801. Lord de Saumarez was succeeded by his eldest son James, the second Baron, a clergyman. James was succeeded by his younger brother, John, the third Baron. the titles are held by his great-great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his father in 1991. Although born and brought up in Suffolk, in 2006 Lord de Saumarez returned to Guernsey. The Saumarez Manor estate in Guernsey belongs to a very distant branch of the Barons de Saumarez.

The ancestral family seat was the Shrubland Park estate, near Ipswich, in Suffolk. It was put on the market by the present Lord de Saumarez in April 2006 following the demise of the Dowager Lady de Saumarez.

Barons de Saumarez (1831)

• James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez
  James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez
  Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez , GCB was an admiral of the British Royal Navy, notable for his victory at the Battle of Algeciras.-Early life:...
  
   (1757–1836)
• James Saumarez, 2nd Baron de Saumarez (1789–1863)
• John St Vincent Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez (1806–1891)
• James St Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez (1843–1937)
• James St Vincent Broke Saumarez, 5th Baron de Saumarez (1889–1969)
• James Victor Broke Saumarez, 6th Baron de Saumarez (1924–1991)
• Eric Douglas Saumarez, 7th Baron de Saumarez (b. 1956)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...

is the present holder's twin brother the Hon. Victor Thomas Saumarez (b. 1956)