Ralph Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys

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

Early life Stonor was born on 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 to 1895.

Career

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

Lord Camoys was a captain in the Royal Flying Corp and, during World War II, was also a Captain with the Buckinghamshire Home Guard from 1940 to 1945.

Personal life

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

Ralph Robert Watts Sherman Stonor (1913–1976), who succeeded his father to the barony. The Hon. Pamela Sophia Nadine Stonor (1917–2005) married Lt. Col. Charles Pepys, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, a great-grandson of the 1st Earl of Cottenham, in South Africa, in 1941. They had no children. The Hon. Mildred Sophia Noreen Stonor (1922–2012) married American heir John Rozet Drexel III (1919–2007) in 1941. John was a grandson of John R. Drexel and great-grandson of Anthony Joseph Drexel.

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

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 (1940−2023), 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.