Background
He was the son of an elder Thomas Stonor and Kitty Blundell, a daughter of the art collector Henry Blundell.
He was the son of an elder Thomas Stonor and Kitty Blundell, a daughter of the art collector Henry Blundell.
In 1817, he went to study at Paris University. 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.
Thomas married Frances Towneley on 25 July 1821.
They had the following issue:
Charlotte (1822–1875), nun;
Catherine (1823–1907), unmarried;
Thomas (1824–1865), married Catherine Coulthurst, no issue;
Eliza (1830–1860), married Henry Silvertop;
Edmund, a Catholic archbishop;
Maria (1832–1914), married Charles Smythe, 7th Baronet;
Agnes (1833–1887);
Harriet (1836–1914), married Leopold Agar-Ellis, 5th Viscount Clifden, had issue;
Caroline (1837–?), nun;
Margaret (1839–1894), married Edward Pereira, had issue;
Eleanor (1842–1886), nun;
They also had three short-lived, unnamed children. Baron Camoys died on 18 January 1881.
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Thomas Stonor sat as a Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1832–1833 and was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1836.