Baron Stamp, of Shortlands in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
[2] It was created in 1938 for the civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker, Sir Josiah Stamp.
The second Baron, Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, holds the record for having held a peerage for the shortest length of time.
On 16 April 1941, the first Baron Stamp was killed by a German bomb, as was his son Wilfred.
Legally, the son was presumed to have died a fraction of a second after his father, and therefore is supposed to have succeeded to the title for that short amount of time.