Baron Stamp

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Stamp, Josiah Charles, 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands, 1880-1941, English economist and financier. Active in many national and international economic commissions, he had an important part in the framing of the Dawes and Young plans for German reparations and was economic adviser to the British government after 1939. He was raised to the peerage in 1938. His books include Fundamental Principles of Taxation in the Light of Modern Developments (1921, rev. ed. 1936), Financial Aftermath of the War (1930), and Christianity and Economics (1939).
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."

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Baron Stamp, of Shortlands in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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. The second Baron was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baron. As of 2010 the title is held by the latter's son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1987. Like his father he is a physician.

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