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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 11, 13 March 1902, Page 29

The London ' Star ' prints some gossipy paragraphs about Archbishop Stonor which are more accurate than most ' pars ' in daily papers about Catholic dignitaries : — Mgr._ JStonor, Archbishop of Trebizond, has arrived in London from Rome, and is staying with Mr. and Mrs. Denham Parker. He is a great uncle of the present Lord Camoys, and was born in 1831. The Archbishop's father, Thomas Stonor, was a staunch Whig, whose family had remained staunch to the old faith throughout the days of the penal laws. He was a Lord-in-Waiting, and induced her late Majesty soon after her accession to revive in his favor the ancient barony of Camoys, which had been in abeyance since the days of Henry VI. His grandson, who succeeded him in the barony, was a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Alexandra when Princess of Wales, and his brother, the Hon. Henry Stonor, was a Gentleman Usher. The Stonors, in fact, have divided their energies between the Court and the Church. Four aunts of the present peer have been nuns. The Archbishop is the most influential English prelate at the Vatican, where he is Canon of St. John Lateran. Mgr. Stonor is a prelate of very stately and dignified presence, and was formerly chamberlain to Pope Pius IX.