STEMP (STAMP) Chart 0372

This is a Chart for Josiah Charles (Stamp) Stemp (Lord) G.C.B., G.B.E. F.B.A 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands and Olive Jessie Marsh (Lady) (The Right Hon) J.P. Baroness of Shortlands

  married
17th October 1903
Greenwich district
London
 

1
JOSIAH CHARLES (STAMP) STEMP
 (LORD) G.C.B., G.B.E, F.B.A
(1st BARON STAMP of SHORTLANDS)

born 
21st June 1880
Kilburn, Middlesex
registered
September quarter 1880
Kilburn, Middlesex
baptised
20th July 1906
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Stamford Street, 
Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire

occupation
1901 Assistant Surveyor of Taxes
1911 Surveyor of Taxes
1930 Railway Chairman - Banker (voyage from Southampton to New York)
1931 Chairman (voyage from Southampton to New York)
1932 Chairman L.M.S Railway
 (assume trip to America for marriage of son Trevor Charles STAMP)
1935 Railroad Chairman
Arrival Quebec from Liverpool
1938 Banker (voyage for Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, USA
1939 Chairman LMS, Ld Comm R E Transport & Ryl......
1941 Chairman L.M.S. Railway, Director of the Bank of England, Member, Economic Advisory Council.
(positions shown on CGWC)
military
WWII? (position shown at death on CGWC)
Colonel
General Staff
Commands and Staff
died
16th April 1941
registered
June quarter 1941
Bromley district, Kent
Aged 61
killed by a bomb in WWII
buried
1941
Beckenham Cemetery and Crematorium
Beckenham
London Borough of Bromley
Greater London, England
Plot: Sec. N.2. Grave 18159
probate
23rd January 1942
Llandudno
to
The Right Honourable
Trevor Charles
third baron
STAMP of Shortlands
will
£163548 16s. 1d.

2
OLIVE JESSIE MARSH (LADY)
(THE RIGHT HON) J.P. BARONESS of SHORTLANDS

born
4th June 1878
New Cross, Kent
registered
June quarter
1878
Greenwich district
Kent
occupation
1889 Soprano and student teacher 
(when Josiah met Olive from Wikipedia)
1901 Teacher (Board School)
1935 Housewife
Arrival Quebec from Liverpool
1934 Housewife (voyage from Southampton to New York)
1938 Justice of the Peace (voyage for Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, USA)
1939 JP
1941 Justice of the Peace (part of inscription on Gravestone)

died
16th April 1941
registered
June quarter 1941
Bromley district. Kent
Aged 61
killed by a bomb in WWII
buried
1941
Beckenham Cemetery and Crematorium
Beckenham
London Borough of Bromley
Greater London, England
Plot: Sec. N.2. Grave 18159
administration
with will
20th November 1941
Llandudno
to the Right Honourable
Trevor Charles
third baron
STAMP of 
Shortlands
and the Honourable
Arthur 
Maxwell
STAMP
Captain H.M. Army
will
£7302 18s. 5d.

3
Wilfred
Carlyle
(STEMP)
STAMP
M.A., A.C.A.
(2nd Baron STAMP of Shortlands)
born about
28th October 1904
Hereford district
Herefordshire
died
16th April 1941
Tantallon Park
Hill Road
Beckenham
Kent
registered
June quarter 1941
Bromley district, Kent
Aged 61
killed by a bomb in WWII

married
10th December 1929
registered
December quarter
1929
Redruth district
Cornwall
Katharine
Mary
WICKETT
(Baroness)
4
Trevor
Charles
STAMP
(3rd Baron STAMP of Shortlands)
born
13th February 1907
Ashton-Under-Lyne
Lancashire
baptised
29th May 1907
Wesleyan Chapel
Stamford Street
Ashton-Under-Lyne
Manchester
Lancashire

died
16th November 1987
Enfield district
Middlesex
Aged 80

married
5th April 1932
Evanton
Cook County
Illinois
USA
Frances 
Dawes
BOSWORTH
5
Arthur
Maxwell
STAMP
(The Hon)
born
20th September 1915
Brentford district
Middlesex
died
31st March 1984
Colchester
Essex
Aged 68

married(1)
24th October
1938
Henry VII Chapel
Westminster Abbey
Westminster
London
registered
December quarter
1938
Westminster district
Middlesex
(divorced 1943)
Janet Tyler
BRYAN

married(2)
17th January 1944
Westminster
 London
registered
March quarter 1944
Westminster district
London
(Alice)
Mary
RICHARDS
6
Josiah
Colin
STAMP
(The Hon)
born about
22nd December 1917
Twickenham, Middlesex 
registered 
March quarter 1918
died
10th May 2001
Barnes
London

married(1)
26th June 1940
registered
June quarter
1940
Bromley district
Kent
divorced
1956
Althea
Grace
(DAWES)
FREDERICK


married(2)
27th December 1958
Johannesburg
South Africa
Gillian
Penelope
TATHAM
  1. 1881 4 Queens Terrace, Hampstead, Middlesex. 
    With the family was father's sister in law Adelaide M EVANS (29) Book Keeper born 
    Southwark, London and Lodger John NEAL (34) Tailor Employing 2 men born
    Withypool, Somerset
    1891 82 High Road, Hampstead, Middlesex. There were 3 servants with the family; Mary A STILL (22) Cashier C. C. born Sudbury, Middlesex, Esther S AYLING (25) General Servant Domestic born Camden Town, London and Minnie R WRIGHT (25) General Servant Domestic born Burnham, Essex
    1901 39 Dinsdale Road, Greenwich East, Greenwich, London. With his future wife, also her family, father Alfred (44) Builder Employer born Broughton, Hampshire, Mother Sarah (48) born Torquay, Devon, siblings Ethel K (23) a Grocer's Clerk born Lewisham, Kent and Leslie (11) born Catford, Kent
    1906 Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire (baptism). Shown as being born on 21st June 1880 and his abode Sidcup, Kent.\
    1907 Welbeck Avenue, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester, Lancashire/ (baptism of Trevor Charles)
    1910 Bramley, Holmes Road, Twickenham, Middlesex (London Electoral Roll) At this address Josiah Charles STAMP
    1911 32 Holmes Road, Twickenham, Middlesex.  A Servant Elizabeth HUTCHINSON (20) General Servant Domestic born Feltham, Middlesex.
    1913 4 Waldegrave Gardens, Twickenham, Middlesex (London Electoral Roll) At this address Josiah Charles STAMP
    1914 4 Waldegrave Gardens, Twickenham, Middlesex (London Electoral Roll) At this address Josiah Charles STAMP
    1915 4 Waldegrave Gardens, Twickenham, Middlesex (London Electoral Roll) At this address Josiah Charles STAMP
    1919 4 Waldegrave Gardens, Twickenham, Middlesex (London Electoral Roll) At this address Josiah Charles STAMP and Jessie Olive STAMP
    1923 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1924 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1925 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1925 1st May 1924 "Staffordshire Sentinel"
    "PRESIDENT OF L.M>S. EXECUTIVE."
    Sir J. Stamp's New Post.
    The following statement was issued officially last night:-
    The directors of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway announce that in view of the experience of amalgamation, they have been considering the organisation of the executive control of the company, and they the have decided to create the post of president of the executive.
    Sir Josiah Stamp, G.B.E. has accepted their invitation to take this position and the board of Nobel Industries, Limited, have agreed to free him from his administrative duties at the end of 1925.
    Sir Josiah Stamp will remain on the board of Nobel Industries.
    the board of the London Midland and Scottish Railway are pleased to state that Mr Burgess has consented to retain his present position of general manager.- Sir Josiah Stamp, was was born in 1880, resigned the position of Assistant Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue in 1918, and is now Director and secretary of Nobel Industries Limited and director of British Celanese Limited. He is an authority on economic and financial questions.
    1927 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1929 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1930 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1930 Sir Josiah Charles STAMP G.B.E. D.Sc., F.B.A., 4 Park Hill Road, Sidcup, Kent (1934 Kelly's Director).
    1930 Josiah and Olive sailed from Southampton on the "Berengaria" and arrived in New York on 30th May 1930,
    1931 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1931 Sailed from Southampton and arrived in New York on 8th April 1931 on the "Homeric"
    1932 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1933 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1934 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1934 Sir Josiah Charles STAMP G.B.E. D.Sc., F.B.A., 4 Park Hill Road, Sidcup, Kent (1934 Kelly's Directory.
    1935 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1935 Arrival on 26th April 1935 Quebec, Canada on the "Duchess of Atholl" having sailed from Liverpool, England.
    1936 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1937 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1938 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (British Phone Books)
    1938 Josiah Charles and Olive Jessie made a voyage from Sydney, Australia on the "Monterey" arriving at Los Angeles, USA on 21st February 1938.
    1939 4, Park Hill Road , Beckenham M.B., Kent as Baron. Living with him were wife Olive and children Wilfred, Arthur and his wife Janet and Joshia (sic). Servants were Edith CAMM (born 31 August 1883) Housekeeper, Violet
    BALDOCK (born 4 March 1902) Housemaid and Bridget MAHERE (born 16 July 1908) Parlourmaid)
    1941 Have then found a Grave Site which gives details of burial where they are down as Sir and Lady
    1942 Tantallon, Park Hill Road, Beckenham, Kent . (probate of Baron STAMP of Shortlands the right honourable Josiah Charles).
    Information for Lord G.C.B., G.B.E Josiah Charles (STAMP) STEMP from John TERRY's web site 29/4/2015
    1st Baron STEMP of SHORTLANDS
    Trevor Charles STAMP, his father and mother made a trip from Southampton on the "Majestic" arriving in New York on 30th March 1932, he married on the 5th April 1932 in America so assume they were making this trip for that purpose.
    Information from John TERRY's web site 20/3/2015
    Obituary from findagrave web site
    1st Baron STAMP of Shortlands was a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. 
    Born in London he was the third of seven children. He left school at 16 and joined the Civil Service as a boy clerk in the Inland Revenue Department, where he rose to become assistant secretary in 1916. Meanwhile he was studying economics as an external student. He was awarded a first class degree (1911) by the University of London and a doctorate (1916) by the London School of Economics. He became the leading British expert on taxation. He look an active part in the work of the Royal Statistical Society serving as president in 1930 - 1932. In 1919 he changed career, leaving the civil service for business, to join as secretary and director Nobel Industries Ltd, from which Imperial Chemical Industries developed. He was knighted in 1920. In 1928 he was appointed a director of the Bank of England. He was raised to the peerage in 1938 as Baron Stamp of Shortlands. STAMP was killed by a bomb in 1941.
    Although there is a picture of the Gravestone I cannot read the inscriptions on any of it. It would appear that a further person was added to the grave in 1985 as well as the couple and their son who were all killed by the bomb in 1941.
    Information from Wikipedia
    Josiah Charles STAMP, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA (21 June 1880 - 16 April 1941), was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
    Life and career
    STAMP was born in Hampstead, London, the third of seven children; his youngest brother L. Dudley STAMP became an internationally renowned geographer. At the time of his birth his father owned and managed a provision and general shop in London.
    Educated at a private Baptist school, Bethany House at Goudhurst, Kent, Josiah left school at 16 and joined the Civil Service as a boy clerk in the Inland Revenue Department. With a brief interval in the Board of Trade, he rose to assistant inspector of taxes at Hereford in 1903, an inspector of taxes in London in 1909, and assistant secretary in 1916.
    Meanwhile he was studying economics as an external student. He was awarded a first class degree (1911) by the University of London and a doctorate (1916) by the London School of Economics. The thesis, published as British Incomes and Property, became a standard work on the subject and established his academic reputation.
    STAMP met his future wife, Olive Jessie MARSH, a soprano and student teacher, when he was seventeen. Pursuing their work and studies separately for several years until their marriage in 1903, they engaged in a correspondence that gives us a rich sense of STAMP's formative years (JONES 1964). Between 1904 and 1917 they had four sons, Wilfred, Trevor, Maxwell and Colin. It was as a result of this marriage that STAMP, son of a Baptist father and Church of England mother, converted to the Wesleyan Methodist Church. A few of his writings (see below), such as Christianity and Economics (1939), discuss the relevance of Christian values to contemporary economics systems.
    In 1919 STAMP changed career, leaving the civil service for business, to join as secretary and director of Nobel Industries Ltd, from which Imperial Chemical Industries developed. In 1926 he became Chairman of the LMS and was instrumental in getting William STANIER appointed in 1932 as Chief Mechanical Engineer to resolve the locomotive problems of the Company. In 1928 he was appointed a director of the Bank of England.
    STAMP was often called to serve on public commissions, committees and boards: he was a member of the Royal Commission on Income Tax, 1919, the Northern Ireland Finance Arbitration Committee, 1923–24, the Committee on Taxation and National Debt, 1924, the Dawes Reparation Commission's Committee on German Currency and Finance, 1924, the Young Committee in 1929 and the Economic Advisory Council, 1930–39.
    From 1927 until his death he was Colonel commanding the Royal Engineers Railway and Transport Corps, and became Honorary Colonel of Transportation Units in the Royal Engineers Supplementary Reserve in 1938.
    STAMP was widely regarded as the leading British expert on taxation, and took an active part in the work of the Royal Statistical Society, serving as president from 1930 to 1932.[7]
    STAMP was appointed Commander in the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918, Knight in the Order (KBE) in 1920, and Knight Grand Cross (GBE) in 1924 and Knight Grand Cross of the Bath (GCB) in 1936. He was a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. He also held the Grand Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit (awarded 1936) and the Afghan Order of Astaur.[4] He was raised to the peerage on 28 June 1938 as Baron STAMP of Shortlands, in the County of Kent.
    He was first Mayor of the Borough of Beckenham, Kent, within which he had settled at Shortlands, in 1935. He was made an honorary Freeman of the same borough in 1936 and of Blackpool in 1937.
    STAMP refused to be moved out of his house, 'Tantallon', in Park Hill Road, Shortlands, because of German bombing during The Blitz. He, aged sixty, and his wife, aged sixty-three, were killed by a bomb's direct hit on the air-raid shelter at their home on 16 April 1941. They were buried at Beckenham Cemetery. Ironically in 1935, he had been a founder member of the Anglo-German Fellowship and had made low key visits to Nuremberg in 1936 (when he met Adolf Hitler – whom STAMP noted was a "statesman and demagogue combined" - and Franz von Papen), and 1937, to view the Nazi Party Congress with the unspoken support of the then Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax.
    STAMP's son Wilfred was killed at the same time and in the same place, but English law has legal fiction that in the event of the order of deaths being indeterminable, the elder is deemed to have died first. Legally therefore, Wilfred momentarily inherited the peerage: and as a consequence the family had to pay death duty twice. The peerage passed to the second of STAMP's four sons, Trevor.
    Quotes
    A well known quote from STAMP (often referred to as STAMP's Law) is:
    "The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the chowky dar (village watchman in India), who just puts down what he damn pleases." (STAMP recounting a story from Harold COX who quotes an anonymous English judge).
    Another quote often attributed to Stamp is:
    "Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." (Said to be from an informal talk at the University of Texas in the 1920s, but as yet unverified.] 
    Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, (June 21, 1880-April 16, 1941) was a British civil servant, industrialist, 
    1941 Obituary [1]
    "...say that Lord STAMP, whose death by enemy action we mourn, was the greatest financial economist of his day, we should be at once reminded of two or three other men who might challenge that distinction. But if we say that he was the most widely known, that will perhaps be accepted. He had a reputation as a lecturer, and, as is common in such cases, many people went to hear the man though they could not understand the matter. In truth, he was often not easy to follow, and some of his addresses are more suitable for the study than the platform. He was a conventional economist-at least, we cannot recall any novel financial proposals being advanced by him. But he was conventional..." 
    http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/stamp1938.htm
    Arms:
    Gules between two Garbs Or three Bezants in bend each charged with a Horse passant Sable
    Crest:
    Issuant from a Mount Vert bezanty a Demi-Horse Argent
    Supporters:
    On either side a Horse Argent resting the interior hind leg on a Bezant
    Motto:
    Fidei Commissa Teneo (I hold in trust that which is trusted to me)
    Inscription on a placque in Beckenham Methodist Church
    IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF/ JOSIAH CHARLES STAMP/ FIRST BARON STAMP OF SHORTLANDS:/ IN THE COUNTY OF KENT G.C.B. O.B.E. D SC.F.B.A./ CHARTER MAYOR OF BECKENHAM 1935/ AND HIS WIFE/ OLIVE JESSIE J.P./ MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS/ WHO WITH THEIR SON/ WILFRID CARLYLE/ WERE KILLED AT THEIR HOME IN SHORTLANDS/ DURING AN AIR RAID ON THE NIGHT OF/ APRIL 16TH 1941
  2. 1881 58 Algernon Road, Lewisham, London. Father Alfred MARCH aged 24 a Joiner born Broughton, Hampshire, mother Sarah aged 28 born Brixham, Devon, sibling Ethel K aged 3 born Lewisham, Kent.
    1891 17 Springfield Park Crescent, Lewisham, London. Father Alfred aged 34 a Carpenter and Joiner born Broughton, Hampshire, Mother Sarah aged 38 born Brixham, Devon. Siblings Ethel K aged 13 a Mothers Help Domestic born Lewisham, Kent, Dorothy aged 1 born Lewisham Kent and Leslie aged 1 born Lewisham, Kent. With the family was a Frederick T LIIGHT Brother in Law aged 22 a Plumber born Torquay, Devon.
    1901 39 Dinsdale Road, Greenwich East, Greenwich, London. Father Alfred aged 44 a Builder Employer born Broughton, Hampshire, Mother Sarah aged 48 born Torquay, Devon, siblings Ethel K aged 23 a Grocer's Clerk born Lewisham and Leslie aged 11 born Catford. With the family was Josiah C STAMP a Visitor aged 20 an Assistant Surveyor of Taxes born Kilburn, London.
    1907 Welbeck Avenue, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester, Lancashire (baptism of Trevor Charles)
    1911 32 Holmes Road, Twickenham, Middlesex. A General Servant domestic was Elizabeth HUTCHINSON (20) born Feltham, Middlesex. On the 1911 census Olive is shown as having been married 7 years and having had 2 children both still living
    1919 4 Waldegrave Gardens, Twickenham, Middlesex (London Electoral Roll) At this address Josiah Charles STAMP and Jessie Olive STAMP
    1930 Josiah and Olive sailed from Southampton on the "Berengaria" and arrived in New York on 30th May 1930,
    1931 Sailed from Southampton and arrived in New York on 8th April 1931 on the "Homeric"
    1932 Trevor Charles STAMP, his father and mother made a trip from Southampton on the "Majestic" arriving in New York on 30th March 1932, he married on the 5th April 1932 in America so assume they were making this trip for that purpose.
    1935 Arrival on 26th April 1935 Quebec, Canada on the "Duchess of Atholl" having sailed from Liverpool, England.
    1938 Josiah Charles and Olive Jessie made a voyage from Sydney, Australia on the "Monterey" arriving at Los Angeles, USA on 21st February 1938.
    1939 4, Park Hill Road , Beckenham M.B., Kent as Baroness. Living with husband Josiah and children Wilfred, Arthur and his wife Janet and Joshia (sic). Servants were Edith CAMM (born 31 August 1883) Housekeeper, Violet BALDOCK (born 4 March 1902) Housemaid and Bridget MAHERE (born 16 July 1908) Parlourmaid)
    1941 Tantallon Park Hill Road, Beckham, Kent (address given at probate of Baroness STAMP of Shortlands the right honourable  Olive Jessie wife of the right honourable Josiah Charles first baron STAMP of Shortlands. 
    Information from John TERRY's web page 29/4/2015
    1932 Trevor Charles STAMP, his father and mother made a trip from Southampton on the "Majestic" arriving in New York on 30th March 1932, he married on the 5th April 1932 in America so assume they were making this trip for that purpose.
    THE RT HON LADY OLIVE JESSIE STAMP, J.P., Age 63,Killed by enemy action at her home, Tantallon, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. Daughter of the late Alfred MARSH, of Grove Park; wife of Colonel Josiah Charles, 1st Baron STAMP of Shortlands ,and mother of Wilfred Carlyle STAMP, both of whom were killed in the same incident.
  3. 1911 32 Holmes Road, Twickenham, Middlesex. There was a Servant a Elizabeth HUTCHINSON aged 20 a General Servant Domestic born Feltham, Middlesex.
    1939 4, Park Hill Road , Beckenham M.B., Kent as The Hon, married, wife not present. Living with his father and mother together with brother Arthur and his wife Janet and brother Joshia (sic). Servants were Edith CAMM (born 31 August 1883) Housekeeper, Violet BALDOCK (born 4 March 1902) Housemaid and Bridget MAHERE (born 16 July 1908) Parlourmaid)
    1941 Farringley, Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Kent (address given at probate)
    Details on findagrave web site for his mother
    He was 36 years old, killed, along with his parents, by enemy action on their home, Tantallon, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. His home was Farringleys, Park Hill Road, Shortlands and he was the husband of Katharine Mary WICKETT. Although his father, Josiah Charles, 1st Baron Stamp was killed in the same incident, Wilfred was deemed to have survived his father by a few seconds, and to have inherited his peerage during that time: Wilfred Carlyle, the second Baron Stamp, is the briefest incumbent of any peerage
    Additional bits and pieces found for Wilfred Carlyle STAMP
    http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3114174/STAMP,
    Rank: Civilian
    Date of Death: 16/04/1941
    Age: 36
    Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead
    Reporting Authority: BECKENHAM, MUNICIPAL BOROUGH
    Additional Information:
    2nd Baron STAMP of Shortlands, M.A., A.C.A.; of Farringleys, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. Son of Josiah Charles, 1st Baron STAMP of Shortlands, and Olive Jessie his wife, of Tantallon, Park Hill Road; husband of Katharine Mary WICKETT. Died at Tantallon, Park Hill Road.
    Wilfred Carlyle Stamp
    Remembered with Honour
    Beckenham, Municipal Borough
    In Memory of
    Civilian
    Civilian War Dead who died on 16 April 1941 Age 36
    2nd Baron STAMP of Shortlands, M.A., A.C.A.; of Farringleys, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. Son of Josiah Charles, 1st Baron
    STAMP of Shortlands, and Olive Jessie his wife, of Tantallon, Park Hill Road; husband of Katharine Mary WICKETT. Died at
    Tantallon, Park Hill Road.
    From Wikipedia
    Wilfred Carlyle STAMP, 2nd Baron Stamp, MA, ACA (28 October 1904 - 16 April 1941) was a son of the British banker Josiah STAMP, 1st Baron STAMP. He holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time.
    STAMP was born in Hereford, while his father was working there as a civil servant for the Inland Revenue. He was educated at the The Leys School, Cambridge, then went up to King's College at Cambridge University, where he graduated as Master of Arts. He became by profession a chartered accountant.
    At time of his death he lived near his father at 'Farringleys', Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Beckenham, Kent.[2]
    STAMP was killed, aged thirty-six, along with his father Josiah STAMP, the second-richest man in Britain at the time, when the latter's house, 'Tantallon' in Park Hill Road, Shortlands, Beckenham, was bombed in 1941 during The Blitz.[ Stamp's mother, Olive Jessie Stamp, Baroness STAMP, was killed by the same bomb. They were buried at Beckenham Cemetery.
    English law has legal fiction that in cases where the order of death is indeterminable, the eldest is recorded to have died first. Legally therefore Wilfred momentarily inherited the peerage of Baron STAMP and the family had to pay death duty twice. Because Wilfred left no sons, the peerage was passed to his father's second son Trevor.
    The shortest peerage without legal fiction was Charles BRANDON, 3rd Duke of Suffolk who inherited his peerage from his brother, Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk for an hour. (see Duke of Suffolk).
  4. 1907 Welbeck Avenue, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, Lancashire (baptism of Trevor Charles)
    1911 32 Holmes Road, Twickenham, Middlesex. There was a Servant a Elizabeth HUTCHINSON aged 20 a General Servant Domestic born Feltham, Middlesex.
    1939 Sailed from Southampton and arrived in New York, New York on the 11th August 1939 on the Nieuw Amsterdam
    1932 Trevor Charles STAMP, his father and mother made a trip from Southampton on the "Majestic" arriving in New York on 30th March 1932, he married on the 5th April 1932 in America so assume they were making this trip for that purpose.
    1939 Epsom College , Epsom and Ewell M.B., Surrey, married no wife present. No. 21 of a total of about 484 individuals listed.
    Wikipedia
    Trevor Charles STAMP, 3rd Baron STAMP MA MD FRCPath (13 February 1907 - 16 November 1987) was a British medical doctor and bacteriologist.
    He was the son of Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp. He succeeded his brother and father as Baron Stamp when they were killed during the war by German bombing. He was a member of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords but later became a cross-bencher.
    He was Professor of Bacteriology, at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London from 1948 to 1970.
    http://www.thepeerage.com/p58254.htm#i582535
    3rd Baron STAMP
    He was Leys Sch, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge (MA, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) ) and St Bart's Hosp (MB, BCh), Member, Royal College of Surgeons (M.R.C.S.) Eng, Licentiate, Royal College of Physicians, London (L.R.C.P.) London 1931, FRCPath 1963, P in 1936. He was as which deemed to have succeeded brother rather than of direct under a House Lords decision on 30 September 1941.
  5. 1931 Sailed from Southampton and arrived in New York on 8th April 1931 on the "Homeric"
    1939 205 Collingwood House, Dolphin Square, City of Westminster S.W.1. (London Electoral Roll) With wife Janet Tyler STAMP
    1939 4, Park Hill Road , Beckenham M.B., Kent as The Hon, married, wife not present. Living, together with his wife Janet, with his father and mother together with brothers Wilfred and Joshia (sic). Servants were Edith CAMM (born 31 August 1883) Housekeeper, Violet BALDOCK (born 4 March 1902) Housemaid and Bridget MAHERE (born 16 July 1908) Parlourmaid)
    1984 Mulberry Green Farmhouse, Copford, Essex (address given at probate)
    Details for this child and marriage etc have been taken from a Family Tree on Ancestry.com at the present time.
    Janet Tyler BRYAN who married Arthur Maxwell STAMP in 1938 married again in 1944
    http://www.thepeerage.com/p58254.htm
    (Arthur) Maxwell STAMP was born on 20 September 1915.1 He was the son of Josiah Charles STAMP. He and Janet Tyler BRYAN were divorced. He married Janet Tyler BRYAN, daughter of B Tyler BRYAN, on 24 October 1938.1 He died in 1984.
    He graduated in 1937 with a Leys Sch and Clare College Cambridge Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) , Master of Arts (M.A.) 1941).1 He was barrister Inner Temple , Lieutenant-Colonel Intell Corps WW II, Advsr Govrs Bank England 1954-57, alternative UK exec dir IMF 1951–52 in 1939. On 28 January 1944 married 2nd Alice Mary, formerly wife of John HAGON and elder daughter of Walter RICHARDS, of Hereford.
    He was dir: Philip Hill Higginson & County , De La Rue 1960, chm: Maxwell STAMP Assocs 1968, Maxeast Ltd 1968, Godfrey Bonsack (DFI) 1969, Triplex Hldgs 1963, Hill Samuel 1965 in 1958.
    He lived in 2003 at 1 Holly Oaks, Wormingford, Essex,
  6. 1931 Sailed from Southampton and arrived in New York on 8th April 1931 on the "Homeric"
    1939 4, Park Hill Road , Beckenham M.B., Kent. Living with his father and mother together with brothers Wilfred and Arthur and Arthur's wife Janet. Servants were Edith CAMM (born 31 August 1883) Housekeeper, Violet BALDOCK (born 4 March 1902) Housemaid and Bridget MAHERE (born 16 July 1908) Parlourmaid)
    1948 "The Croft" Shiplake, Oxfordshire (address given in England) Departed 16th April 1948 from Southampton bound for Durban, South Africa on the "Boschfontein"
    1954 4 Bompas Road, Dunkeld West Johannesburg, South Africa. (address given on sailing from Cape Town to Brazil)

    1959 Jos Colin STAMP aged 41 arrived in New York, New York, USA on Flight Number 801 TWA on 6th September 1959. He has flown from Johannesburg where his address was given as The Inanda Club, Inanda, Johannesburg and his address in New York was the Filtior Hotel, his birth place was given as London, England.
    Some of the details for this child and marriage etc have been taken from a Family Tree on Ancestry.com at the present time.
    http://www.thepeerage.com/p58256.htm
    (Jos) Colin STAMP was born on 22 December 1917.1 He was the son of Josiah Charles STAMP. He and Althea DAWES were divorced. He married Althea DAWES, daughter of Mrs. William M DAWES and Frank FREDERICK, on 26 June 1940. He married Gillian Penelope TATHAM, daughter of Guy St John TATHAM, on 27 December 1958. He died in 2002
    He was Lieutenant Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve WW II, local dir Barclays Bank Div Mktg Servs Europe of Travellers Cheque Div, American Express International Banking Corp 1972. He graduated with a Leys Sch and Queens' College Cambridge Master of Arts (M.A.). In 1954 author: Abroad on Sunday Morning.

    There is so much information for this family on various Web Sites, I have now covered some of it but  a many trips were made to America for various reasons, and details for head of family Josiah as Chairman of the L.M.S appears in so many places and the fact the he, his wife were killed when a bomb fell on their property in 1941 makes it impossible to cover everything.
    I have found the following article which relates to the bombing of Bromley on the night Josiah STAMP, his wife and son and from this it  also appears his sons three daughters (but this does not appear to be the case as his three daughter appear to be alive after this date)
    A reprint of "The Times" printed on Thursday 14th April 2011, Page 19
    Dawn broke on a tragic scene of destroyed churches,
    shops in ruins and lives ended


    • Dunn's furniture store in Market Square was destroyed in a fire following the raid
    Wednesday April 16, 1941, was the blackest day in the history of Bromley. Soon after dark on this spring evening the air-raid alert sounded and an attacking force of more than 650 bombers flew over Kent en route for London.
    The bombers released their load over Bromley and the first to receive a direct hit was St Peter and St Paul Church. A 550-pound bomb caused so much damage that only the tower was left standing. Huge pieces of masonry and timber were hurled into the gardens of nearby properties, killing an 18-year-old sixth-former, Hazel Kissick, who was on fire-watching duties.
    Four more high explosives fell in Church House Gardens and further bombs completely wrecked Church House.
    The majority of the population had taken cover but so heavy and prolonged was the raid that 74 people died, more than 200 were injured and fires were everywhere. It was impossible for the 146 appliances, which attended, to maintain any kind of control.
    The all-clear sounded at 4.30 and dawn revealed the tragic scene. As well as the parish church, St Mark's, Bromley Congregational Church, the Methodist Central Hall and the Robert Whyte Memorial Hall were all destroyed. Also hit was Dunn's furniture store in the Market Square, Bromley bus garage (damaging 60 vehicles), St Mark's Chapel of Ease in Westmoreland Road, a printing works in Green Lane, Penge, a row of shops in Risdale Road, Penge, and a block of flats in Southover on the Downham estate.
    Flames
    In the borough of Bromley more than 140 people died, including Lord Stamp of Shortlands, his wife, his elder son and three daughters. (I do not think the three daughter died at this time)
    Church House was a command centre for the Royal Observer Corps and it had been manned day and night since August 1939. As flames engulfed the house, fired by a stick of incendiaries, the men wisely abandoned their post and sought shelter. Firefighters got close to the scene but could not help because Church Road had been blocked by the ruins of the parish church. This well known mansion was virtually obliterated.
    Twelve high explosives fell on the Bromley Common area, many harmlessly in fields by Crown Lane, Magpie Hall Lane and Prince's Plain School. Another hit an Anderson shelter behind 3 Jackson Road, killing four people. High explosives fell on Hayes Common close to an AA gun encampment. .
    Elsewhere bombs fell in Palace Road, Kinniard Avenue, Wendover Road, South View, Plaistow Lane and Mason's Hill School. Great fires burned at Bromley Court Hotel, the Homeopathic Hospital, the Duke's Head public house and the old telephone exchange. The County Court was damaged by a bomb in College Road.
    For the fire service, the ARP wardens, the ambulance staff and hospitals this was the most harrowing night they had ever experienced and, in the words of the Civil Defence Controller, "brought a test of a magnitude not exceeded in any town ... having regard to our size and population".
    Princess Elizabeth laid the foundation stone for a new Church of St Peter and St Paul on October 13, 1949, and on December 14, 1957, the Bishop of Rochester consecrated the new building.
    More recently an organ, built in 1991 by JW Walker and Sons and considered one of the finest built in England during the 20th century was installed in the church.
    Those readers who remember clearly that tragic date in Bromley's history - April 16, 1941 - may care to write to me with their memories. 

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