Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp, was killed in a German air-raid on London on 16 Apr 1941. His father, the 1st Baron, was killed by the same bomb. However, it was assumed that the son had died after the father, even by a split-second, and on that basis the 2nd Baron was held to have succeeded to the title...
It's an ITV Sunday night drama plot device waiting to happen, I tells ya'. ;O)
As a slight aside, you originally said "listed in order". What was the ordering in question, since dates of death are sufficiently far from monotonic that it's presumably nothing to do with either that or that date of the award of the peerage? (Award? Conferral? What does one do with a peerage of which one has the gift?)
The order is a ranking by the length of time they lived after getting their peerage: Faulkner 24 days Anderson (Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter) 36 days Monslow 119 days Britten 155 days King-Hall 157 days Driberg (Lord Bradwell) 209 days Ridley 219 days Lestor 296 days Erroll 303 days Ede (Lord Chuter-Ede) 314 days And technically a peerage takes effect once it has been gazetted, ie published in the Westminster Gazette (a periodical that is not quite as interesting as the Cambridge University Reporter).
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It's an ITV Sunday night drama plot device waiting to happen, I tells ya'. ;O)
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Anderson (Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter) 36 days
Monslow 119 days
Britten 155 days
King-Hall 157 days
Driberg (Lord Bradwell) 209 days
Ridley 219 days
Lestor 296 days
Erroll 303 days
Ede (Lord Chuter-Ede) 314 days
And technically a peerage takes effect once it has been gazetted, ie published in the Westminster Gazette (a periodical that is not quite as interesting as the Cambridge University Reporter).
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