Harry Stonor

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Sir Harry Julian Stonor GCVO (17 November 1859 – 5 May 1939) was a British courtier who served in several successive Royal Households of the United Kingdom.

Stonor was the son of Hon. Francis Stonor, a son of Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys, and Eliza Peel, a daughter of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. In 1881 he was granted the style and precedence of the younger son of a Baron by Royal Warrant when his brother, Francis, succeeded to his grandfather's barony.

In 1883 Stonor joined the Royal Household as a

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1933 for his services to the Royal Family.[4] He was also a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
.

He was a devout

Roman Catholic
. He died unmarried in 1939.

References

  1. ^ "No. 14038". The Edinburgh Gazette. 8 July 1924. p. 905.
  2. ^ "No. 34306". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 July 1936. p. 4664.
  3. ^ "No. 34376". The London Gazette. 2 March 1937. p. 1406.
  4. ^ "No. 33946". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1933. p. 3805.