He was the son of Richard Stonor, an Oxfordshire freeholder, with the family name coming from the village of Stonor.
Stonor | Ralph Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys | Edmund Stonor | Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys | Stonor Park | Sherman Stonor, 6th Baron Camoys | Oliver Stonor |
Born into the recusancy on 2 April 1831 at Stonor, England, the ancestral home of the Stonor family, he was the son of Thomas Stonor, 3rd Lord Camoys and Frances (née Towneley).
In 1581 the Jesuit priests Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons lived and worked at Stonor Park, and Campion's Decem Rationes was printed here on a secret press.
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Stonor has been used as a location for a number of film and television productions, including the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987).
Sir Walter Stonor (died 1550) was an Oxfordshire knight and a Lieutenant of the Tower of London in the 16th century.