Baron de Saumarez

Baron de Saumarez, in the Island of Guernsey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 15 September 1831 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir James Saumarez, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Guernsey, on 13 June 1801. Lord de Saumarez was succeeded by his eldest son James, the second Baron, a clergyman. The second Baron was succeeded by his younger brother, John, the third Baron. As of 2009 the titles are held by his great-great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his father in 1991. Although being born and brought up in Suffolk, in 2006 Lord de Saumarez returned to Guernsey. The Saumarez Manor estate in Guernsey belongs to a very distant branch of the Barons de Saumarez.

The ancestral family seat was the Shrubland Park estate, near Ipswich, in Suffolk. It was put on the market by the present Lord de Saumarez in April 2006 following the demise of the Dowager Lady de Saumarez.

Barons de Saumarez (1831)

James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez (1757–1836)
James Saumarez, 2nd Baron de Saumarez (1789–1863)
John St Vincent Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez (1806–1891)
James St Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez (1843–1937)
James St Vincent Broke Saumarez, 5th Baron de Saumarez (1889–1969)
James Victor Broke Saumarez, 6th Baron de Saumarez (1924–1991)
Eric Douglas Saumarez, 7th Baron de Saumarez (b. 1956)

The Heir Presumptive is the present holder's twin brother the Hon. Victor Thomas Saumarez (b. 1956)

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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