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词条 Ralph Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

     Descendants 

  4. References

  5. External links

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Ralph Francis Julian Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys (26 January 1884 – 3 August 1968) was an English Aristocrat and Lord of Stonor Park who married an American heiress.

Early life

Lord Camoys was born on the 26 January 1884 at Stonor Park in Stonor, north of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England. He was the son of Francis Robert Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys (1856–1897) and the former Jessie Philippa Carew. His father was the Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1886 and again from 1892–1895.[1]

His paternal grandparents were Hon. Francis Stonor (second son of the Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys) and Eliza Peel (a daughter of British prime minister Sir Robert Peel). His maternal grandfather was Robert Russell Carew of Carew & Co., Ltd. and his maternal aunt, Katherine Jane Carew, was married to Edward Bosc Sladen, the British army officer.

Career

Upon his father's death in 1897, he succeeded as Baron Camoys and was thereafter known as Lord Camoys.[1]

Lord Camoys identified himself with the pure food reform movement and was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pure Food and Health Society.[1] During World War II, he was also a Captain with the Buckinghamshire Home Guard from 1940 to 1945.[2]

Personal life

On 25 November 1911, Ralph was married to American heiress, Mildred Constance Sherman (1888–1961), the daughter of William Watts Sherman[3] and the former Sophia Augusta Brown, a granddaughter of the founder of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.[4] Together, they were the parents of the following children:[5]

  • Ralph Robert Watts Sherman Stonor (1913–1976), who succeeded his father to the barony.[8] He married Jeanne Stourton (1913–1987), the third and youngest daughter of Captain Herbert Stourton, OBE (grandson of the 19th Baron Stourton), and his wife, Frances (daughter of the 4th Viscount Southwell).[6]
  • The Hon. Pamela Sophia Nadine Stonor (1917–2005)[7] married Lt. Col. Charles Pepys, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, a great-grandson of the 1st Earl of Cottenham, in 1941. They had no children.
  • The Hon. Mildred Sophia Noreen Stonor (1922–2012)[8] married John Rozet Drexel III (1919–2007) in 1941. John was a great-grandson of Anthony Joseph Drexel.[9]

Lord Camoys died at his American home, Stonor Lodge in Newport, Rhode Island (in the United States), on 3 August 1968.[10] At his death, he had seven grandsons and three great-grandchildren.[11]

Descendants

Through his son, he was the grandfather of The Hon. Julia Camoys Stonor (b. 1939), who married Donald Saunders in 1963; Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys (b. 1940), who married who Elisabeth Hyde Parker in 1966; The Honourable Georgina Stonor (b. 1941); The Honourable Harriet Stonor (b. 1943), who married Julian Cotterell in 1965; and The Honourable John Stonor (1946—1994), who died unmarried.[6]

Through his youngest daughter, he was the grandfather of Pamela Drexel; John Rozet Drexel IV, who married to Mary Jacqueline Astor, daughter of John Jacob Astor VI and Gertrude Gretsch; and Noreen Drexel O'Farrell.[12][13][14]

References

1. ^{{cite news |title=AMERICAN WIVES AID IN BRITISH REFORMS Lord Camoys, Who Married Miss Sherman, Leads in Pure Food Movement. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/06/12/100538639.pdf |accessdate=14 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 12, 1912}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=Camoys, Baron (E, 1383) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/camoys1383.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Cracroft's Peerage |accessdate=14 February 2019}}
3. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Wm. Watts Sherman Dead. Prominent in New York Society and Father of Lady Camoys |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/01/23/100511847.pdf |quote= |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 23, 1912 |accessdate=2011-03-14 }}
4. ^{{cite news |title=MRS. WATTS SHERMAN |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/06/29/104321656.pdf |accessdate=14 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 29, 1947 |language=en}}
5. ^Kidd, Charles and Williamson, David. "Camoys, Baron (Stonor)(Baron E 1383)." Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 1995. London: Debrett's Peerage Limited, 1995. p. 208, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
6. ^{{cite news |title=I enjoy sharing this historic house with visitors, says new custodian of Stonor Park |url=https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/events/79810/i-enjoy-sharing-this-historic-house-with-visitors-says-new-custodian-of-stonor-park.html |accessdate=14 February 2019 |work=Henley Standard |date=7 November 2016}}
7. ^Michael Rhodes. "Baron Camoys family update" thepeerage.com family update forum. 30 January 2005
8. ^{{cite web |last1=Rhodes |first1=Michael |title=Hon (Mildred Sophia) Noreen Drexel (1922-2012) |url=https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2012/11/hon-mildred-sophia-noreen-drexel-1922.html |website=peeragenews.blogspot.com |publisher=Peerage News |accessdate=14 February 2019 |date=12 November 2012}}
9. ^"In Memoriam: John R. Drexel III " {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625060945/http://www.drexel.edu/univrel/digest/archive/042407/index.html |date=25 June 2008 }} Drexel Daily Digest 24 April 2007, a publication of Drexel University.
10. ^{{cite news |title=LORD CAMOYS |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/04/89134310.pdf |accessdate=14 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 4, 1968 |language=en}}
11. ^{{cite news |title=Lord Camoys Dies 2 Months After Leaving Family Home: |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/11/archives/lord-camoys-dies-2-months-after-leaving-family-home.html |accessdate=14 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=11 March 1976}}
12. ^{{cite news |last1=Norwich |first1=William |title=PUBLIC LIVES; A Newport Aristocrat Has Fallen for Everyman's Game |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/us/public-lives-a-newport-aristocrat-has-fallen-for-everyman-s-game.html?sec=travel |accessdate=14 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=21 July 2001}}
13. ^{{cite web |title=JOHN R. DREXEL III AND ALICE TROTH DREXEL PAPERS, 1812-1988 |url=https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A5038 |website=library.drexel.edu |publisher=Drexel University Libraries |accessdate=14 February 2019}}
14. ^Photograph of Mrs Drexel

External links

  • Camoys, Baron (E, 1383), Cracroft's Peerage.
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