Lovelace Stamer

[1] He succeeded to the family baronetcy, originally created in 1809 for his grandfather, twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, following the death of his father in 1860.

[10] Stamer was made a prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral in 1875 and served as Archdeacon of Stoke from 1877 until he was elevated to the episcopate in 1888 as Suffragan Bishop of Shrewsbury.

In Shrewsbury he was known for protesting over urban housing conditions and, as chaplain to its corporation, municipal corruption, for almost two decades until retiring due to illness in 1906.

[3] In the latter parish, he built new schools for local children, founded a working men's club and reading rooms, and paid for a new water supply system[2] On 16 April 1857 Stamer married Ellen Isabel Dent (1837 - 1933), daughter of Joseph Dent of Ribston Hall, Yorkshire.

They had eight children:[11][12] Stamer died at Penkridge, Staffordshire on 29 October 1908 at the age of 79[13] and was buried in Stoke at Hartshill Cemetery.