English Aristocrat and Lord of Stonor Park. Ralph 5th Baron of 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. 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. Upon his father's death in 1897, he succeeded as Baron Camoys and was thereafter known as Lord Camoys. 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. During World War II, he was also a Captain with the Buckinghamshire Home Guard from 1940 to 1945. 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. Lord Camoys died at his American home, Stonor Lodge in Newport, Rhode Island, on 3 August 1968.
English Aristocrat and Lord of Stonor Park. Ralph 5th Baron of 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. 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. Upon his father's death in 1897, he succeeded as Baron Camoys and was thereafter known as Lord Camoys. 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. During World War II, he was also a Captain with the Buckinghamshire Home Guard from 1940 to 1945. 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. Lord Camoys died at his American home, Stonor Lodge in Newport, Rhode Island, on 3 August 1968.
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