Baron Stamp

Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Baron Stamp
CrestIssuant from a mount Vert bezantée a demi-horse Argent.
ShieldGules between two garbs Or three bezants in bend each charged with a horse passant Sable.
SupportersOn either side a horse Argent resting the interior hind leg on a bezant.
MottoFidei Commissa Teneo [1]

Baron Stamp, of Shortlands in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] It was created in 1938 for the civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker, Sir Josiah Stamp. The second Baron, Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, holds the record for having held a peerage for the shortest length of time. On 16 April 1941, the first Baron Stamp was killed by a German bomb, as was his son Wilfred. Legally, the son was presumed to have died a fraction of a second after his father, and therefore is supposed to have succeeded to the title for that short amount of time. The second Baron was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baron. As of 2022[update] the title is held by the latter's grandson, the fifth Baron.

Barons Stamp (1938)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. Leo Charles Xie Stamp (b. 2021).

Notes

  1. ^ A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Ltd. 1959.
  2. ^ "No. 34528". The London Gazette. 5 July 1938. p. 4327.

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]

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