Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp
- Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp
Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp (1904 – 16 April 1941) was a son of the British banker Josiah Stamp. He holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time.
Stamp was killed along with his father Josiah Stamp, the second-richest man in Britain at the time, when their house was bombed in 1941 during The Blitz. 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. The peerage was passed to Stamp's younger son Trevor. Stamp's mother, Olive Jessie Stamp, was killed by the same bomb.
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).
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