Full Name Walter Stoner Children Elizabeth Stonor Nationality English Name Walter Stonor | Term 29 September 1546–1547 Died 1551 Successor Sir John Markham Predecessor Anthony Knyvett | |
Title Lieutenant of the Tower of London Spouse(s) Anne Foliot
Elizabeth Chamber Parents Sybilla Brecknock, Thomas Stonor | ||
Sir Walter Stonor (died 1551) was the son of Thomas Stoner of North Stoke, Oxfordshire and Sybilla, the daughter of Sir David Brecknock. He was a knight of the body and appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London on 29 September 1546. He had at least three probable brothers, John, Edmund and Robert. He was knighted by Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey, after the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He died in 1551 with no male heir.
Marriage and issue
He married firstly, Anne, the daughter of John Foliot of Worcestershire and Eleanor Moore, and by her, had a son and a daughter:
He married secondly, by 1533, Elizabeth, the daughter of Geoffrey Chamber of Stanmore, Middlesex. After her husband's death, she married successively, Reginald Conyers, Edward Griffin and Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso.
He corresponded with his daughter, Elizabeth, for several decades after her marriages to Sir William Compton, Sir Walter Walshe and Sir Philip Hoby, and unusually for the period these letters have survived, giving an indication of their relationship over the years.