Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys (1797 – 1881) was a British MP and member of the peerage.

Thomas Stonor sat as a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Oxford

Oxford (UK Parliament constituency)

Oxford was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It comprised the city of Oxford in the county of Oxfordshire, and elected two Members of Parliament from its creation in 1295 until 1881...

 from 1832–1833 and was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1836.

He succeeded to his title in 1839, after Queen Victoria terminated its abeyance in his favour. He was the appointed Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen from 1846–1852, 1853–1858, 1859–1866, and finally from 1868–1874.

He married Frances Towneley

Towneley (family)

The Towneley or Townley family are an English recusant family whose ancestry can be traced back to Norman England. They take their name from Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire, which was the family seat until its sale in 1901.-The Towneleys of Towneley Hall:...

 on 25 July 1821, one of their children was the Catholic archbishop Edmund Stonor

Edmund Stonor

Most Rev. Edmund Stonor was a prominent British Roman Catholic archbishop.Born into the recusancy on 2 April 1831 at Stonor, England, the ancestral home of the Stonor family, he was the son of Thomas Stonor, 3rd Lord Camoys and Frances . Rev...

. Thomas died on 18 January 1881 and was succeeded by his grandson, Francis.

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