Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Camoys | |
Birth Name: | Ralph William Robert Stonor |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1974 |
Party: | Conservative |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status1: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label1: | as an elected hereditary peer |
Term Start1: | 28 November 2023 |
Predecessor1: | The 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux |
Residence: | Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames England |
Spouse: | Ailsa Fiona Mackay |
Parents: | Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys Elisabeth Mary Hyde Parker |
Children: | 3 |
Ralph William Robert Stonor, 8th Baron Camoys (born 10 September 1974), is a British hereditary peer and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Lord Camoys became a member of the House in November 2023, after winning a hereditary peers' by-election to replace Lord Brougham and Vaux.[1]
Stonor was born 10 September 1974 to Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys and Elisabeth Hyde Parker, daughter of Sir William Stephen Hyde-Parker, 11th Baronet. He was educated at Eton College and the University of Manchester, graduating with a BA degree in History.[2]
After graduation, Stonor worked in London and Bristol for private equity firms before joining the Foreign Office as a diplomat, where he worked in Afghanistan and Delhi and in London as leader of a counter-terrorism team. In 2009, he founded Ilex Partners International Limited, a mergers and acquisitions company, with Lord Rothschild.[3] In 2021, he co-founded Marlow Film Studios and is a director.[4]
He is the UK Chairman of the National Trust for Nature Conservation and on its governing board of trustees.[5]
Stonor married Lady Alisa Fiona Mackay, daughter of Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape in 2004. The couple have three children.[6]