Stefan Adam Zamoyski Explained

Stefan Adam Zamoyski
Noble Family:Zamoyski
Coa:
Jelita
Father:Władysław Zdzisław Zamoyski
Mother:Maria Mężyńska
Spouse:Elżbieta Czartoryska
Issue:Maria Helena Zamoyska
Zdzislaw Klemens Zamoyski
Birth Date:17 February 1904
Birth Place:Racewo, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Death Place:San Francisco, United States

Count Stefan Adam Zamoyski (17 February 1904 – 27 October 1976) was a Polish nobleman, landowner and a magnate.

Biography

Born into an old and wealthy Zamoyski family, Stefan Adam was the eldest son of Count Wladyslaw Zamoyski (1873-1944) and his wife, Marie Mezynska (1878-1956).[1] He had a degree of Doctor of Law. He was owner of estates in Wysock. Lt.-Col. Count Stefan Zamoyski served as an aide-de-camp to Polish Prime Minister-in-exile Wladislaw Sikorski in London. In December 1940, Lt.-Col. Zamoyski wrote to the head of RAF Bomber Command, requesting that the German concentration camp Auschwitz be bombed to allow the Polish political prisoners there at the time to escape; the RAF declined to act. He was awarded with the Virtuti Militari Order.

Following World War II, Count Zamoyski remained in Britain. He was working at the Jockey Club when he came into contact with Captain Kazimierz Bobinski and working together, they finished Bobinski's work in compiling the Bobinski-Zamoyski Family Tables of Racehorses, published in 1954.

Marriage and issue

On 26 June 1929 in Gołuchów, he married Princess Elżbieta Czartoryska (1905-1989), second daughter of Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski and his wife, Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska. They have three children:

Notes and References

  1. https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00195229&tree=LEO