James St. Vincent Broke Saumarez, 5th Baron de Saumarez

James St Vincent Broke Saumarez, 5th Baron de Saumarez DL (29 November 1889 – 16 January 1969) was a British soldier.

Early life James St Vincent Broke Saumarez was born on 29 November 1889. He was the only son of James Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez and Jane Anne Vere-Broke (1853–1933). He had three older sisters, Hon. Evelyn Saumarez (who married Sir John Wood, 2nd Baronet), Hon. Marion Saumarez (an artist), and Hon. Gladys Saumarez, neither of whom married.

His paternal grandparents were Col. John Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez, and the former Caroline Esther Rhodes (a daughter of William Rhodes of Kirskill Hall, Yorkshire, and Bramhope Hall, Yorkshire). His maternal grandparents were Capt. Charles Acton Vere-Broke and Anna Maria Hamilton (a daughter of John Hamilton of Sundrum). His mother was the heiress her uncle, Adm. Sir George Broke-Middleton, through which the Saumarez family inherited Shrubland Park at Coddenham, Suffolk, Broke Hall at Ipswich, and Livermore Park at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

He was educated at Harrow, before attending Trinity College, Cambridge. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk between 1937 and 1964.

In 1946 he founded the Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College, named in honor of Kingsley Fairbridge. Between 1946 and 1962, 276 British child migrants were sent to Rhodesia with an emphasis was put on education. The Memorial College was set up in a deserted airbase outside Bulawayo.

Personal life On 30 April 1914, he married Gunhild Balck (1889–1985), daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Viktor Gustaf Balck, a Swedish Army officer and sports personality who was one of the original members of the International Olympic Committee and served as president of the International Skating Union for 30 years. Together, they were the parents of:

Lord Saumarez died on 16 January 1969 and was succeeded in the barony by his second son, James.